PURPOSE: This rule identifies definitions used in this chapter.

1. (1) For the purpose of 14 CSR 80-5:

   1. (A) The term “intervention fee” refers to the monthly fee authorized by section 217.690.3, RSMo and required to be paid by all offenders under probation, parole, or conditional release supervision of the Board of Probation and Parole;
   2. (B) The term “sanction” is an approved penalty or action intended to enforce compliance;
   3. (C) The term “waiver” means an offender is relieved of an obligation to pay all or part of the intervention fee, as authorized by the supervising officer and the district administrator;
   4. (D) “Willful nonpayment” means the offender refuses to pay the intervention fee despite having sufficient financial assets to pay the fee;
   5. (E) The term “income” refers to gross earnings, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, public assistance, veteran’s payments, survivor benefits, pension and retirement income, interest, dividends, rents, royalties, income from estates, trusts, educational assistance, alimony, child support, assistance from outside the household, and other miscellaneous sources. Noncash benefits, such as food stamps and housing subsidies, are not considered income; and
   6. (F) The term “family member” means any relative, by blood or marriage, who resides in the same household. Non-relatives, such as housemates, are not included.

AUTHORITY: sections 217.040 and 217.755, RSMo 2000 and 217.690, RSMo Supp. 2005.* Emergency rule filed Oct. 6, 2005, effective Nov. 1, 2005, expired April 29, 2006. Original rule filed Oct. 6, 2005, effective April 30, 2006. *Original authority: 217.040, RSMo 1982, amended 1989, 1993, 1995; 217.690, RSMo 1982, amended 1986, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2002, 2005; and 217.755, RSMo 1982.