Section 631. Definitions

As  used  in this article the following terms
  shall have the following meanings:
    1. "Institution" means any institution under the jurisdiction  of  the
  commissioner  of  correction  in  any  city  having  a population of one
  million or more or of a county which elects to have this  article  apply
  thereto.
    2.  "Eligible  inmate"  means  a  person  confined in a city prison or
  reformatory in a city having a population of one million or more or in a
  county jail and penitentiaries of a county which  elects  to  have  this
  article  apply thereto where a furlough program has been established who
  is sentenced to a definite  period  of  six  months  or  more  or  to  a
  reformatory  sentence  of  imprisonment  and has served a minimum of six
  months of any such sentence.
    3. "Furlough program" means a program under which eligible inmates may
  be granted the privilege of leaving the  premises  of  a  prison  for  a
  period  not  exceeding  seventy-two  hours  for  the  purpose of seeking
  employment, maintaining family ties, solving family problems, to undergo
  surgery  or  to  receive  medical  treatment  or  dental  treatment  not
  available  in  the correctional institution, or for any matter necessary
  to the furtherance of any such purposes.
    4. "Extended bounds of confinement" means the area in which an  inmate
  participating  in  a  furlough  program  may  travel,  the  routes he is
  permitted to use, the places he is authorized to visit, and  the  hours,
  days,  or  specially  defined  period during which he is permitted to be
  absent from the premises of the  institution.  An  extension  of  limits
  shall  be  under  such  prescribed  conditions as the commissioner deems
  necessary. Such extension of limits may be withdrawn at any time.
    5. "Furlough committee" means the body of persons  which  may  include
  members  of the public, appointed pursuant to regulations promulgated by
  the commissioner for the purposes of formulating, modifying and revoking
  furlough programs at an institution.
    6. "Warden" means the person in charge of an institution  by  whatever
  title he may be known.
    7.  "Commissioner"  means  the  commissioner  of  correction in a city
  having a population of one million  or  more  or  that  official  having
  similar  duties  in  any  county which elects to have this article apply
  thereto, by whatever title he may be known.
    8. "Department" means the  applicable  department  of  correction  or,
  where no such department exists, the office of the commissioner.
    * NB Expires September 1, 2011