1. (a) As used in this Compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following words have the meanings indicated.
2. (b) “Incarcerated individual” means a male or female offender who is committed to, under sentence to, or confined in a penal or correctional institution.
3. (c) “Institution” means any penal or correctional facility, including but not limited to a facility for the mentally ill or mentally defective, in which incarcerated individuals may lawfully be confined.
4. (d) “Receiving state” means a state party to this Compact to which an incarcerated individual is sent for confinement other than a state in which conviction or court commitment was had.
5. (e) “Sending state” means a state party to this Compact in which conviction or court commitment was had.
6. (f) “State” means a state of the United States, the United States of America, a territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Added by Acts 1999, c. 54, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2023, c. 721, § 3, eff. Oct. 1, 2023.

Formerly Art. 41, § 4-1202.