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197.010 Definitions for chapter.
Definitions as used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Cabinet" means the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet;
(2) "Classification" means the systematic assignment of a prisoner to a custody level,
program, and penitentiary;
(3) "Department" means Department of Corrections;
(4) "Eligible sexual offender" means a sexual offender for whom the sentencing court,
department officials, or both have determined that he or she:
(a) Has demonstrated evidence of a mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder, but
not active psychosis or an intellectual disability; and
(b) Is likely to benefit from the program;
(5) "Penitentiaries" includes the state penal institutions for males at Eddyville,
LaGrange, the Green River Correctional Complex, the Luther Luckett Correctional
Complex, the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women, the Northpoint Training
Center, the Roederer Correctional Complex, the Eastern Kentucky Correctional
Complex, the Western Kentucky Correctional Complex, Frankfort Career
Development Center, Blackburn Correctional Complex, and Bell County Forestry
Camp, together with the branches thereof, any private prison as provided by KRS
197.500, and any other similar institutions hereafter established;
(6) "Sexual offender" means any person convicted of, pleading guilty to, or entering an
Alford plea to a sex crime as defined in KRS 17.500; and
(7) "State agency" means any department, board, commission, or agency of the state
government.
Effective: July 12, 2012
History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 146, sec. 26, effective July 12, 2012. -- Amended
2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 230, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts
ch. 182, sec. 21, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 418, sec. 3,
effective July 15, 1994. – Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 43, effective July 14,
1992; and ch. 445, sec. 4, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts
ch. 315, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990; and ch. 497, sec. 9, effective July 13, 1990. -Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 106, sec. 2, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1982
Ky. Acts ch. 344, sec. 20, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74,
Art. V, sec. 24(14). -- Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 165, sec. 1. -- Amended 1962 Ky.
Acts ch. 106, Art. X, sec. 9. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective
October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 3828c-1.
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