As used in this subchapter, the following definitions apply:
- (1) "ACA standards" means American Correctional Association standards for adult community residential services.
- (2) "Aftercare" means the community-based portion of the methamphetamine treatment program to which an offender is committed after successful completion of the residential component of the program.
- (3) "Contractor" means a private, nonprofit Montana corporation organized and incorporated in this state under the Montana Nonprofit Corporation Act, Title 35, chapter 2, MCA, with which the department enters a contract to operate a program.
- (4) "Department" means the Department of Corrections established in 2-15-2301, MCA.
- (5) "Facility" means a building or a part of a building that houses a residential portion of a methamphetamine treatment program.
- (6) "Participant" or "program participant" means an offender approved by the department and local screening committee to participate in the methamphetamine treatment program.
- (7) "Program" means only the residential portion of a methamphetamine treatment program established pursuant to HB 326 (Ch. 277), L. 2005 and does not include, for the purposes of this subchapter, the community-based prerelease center portion of the treatment.
- (8) "Residential" means a minimum of six months housed in a facility providing an intensive therapeutic community model of treatment.
Authorizing statute(s): 53-1-203, MCA
Implementing statute(s): 53-1-201, 53-1-203, MCA
History: NEW, 2005 MAR p. 1917, Eff. 10/7/05; AMD, 2018 MAR p. 1730, Eff. 8/25/18.