P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 1434
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning expressed below:
(a) Adult. — Means those persons who are classified by law as adults and minors treated as adults by statute or court order, or by effect of law.
(b) Bylaws. — Means those bylaws established by the Interstate Commission for its governance or for directing or controlling the Interstate Commission’s actions or conduct.
(c) Compact administrator. — Means the individual in each compacting state appointed under the terms of this Compact, responsible for the administration and management of the state’s supervision and transfer of offenders subject to the terms of this Compact, the rules adopted by the Interstate Commission, and policies adopted by the state council under this Compact.
(d) Compacting state. — Means any state that has enacted the enabling legislation for this Compact.
(e) Commissioner. — Means the voting representative of each compacting state, designated pursuant to § 1435 of this title.
(f) Interstate Commission. — Means the Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision established by this Compact.
(g) Member. — Means the Commissioner of a compacting state or the Commissioner’s designee who is an individual officially connected with the Commissioner.
(h) Non-compacting state. — Means any state that has not enacted the enabling legislation for this Compact.
(i) Offender. — Means an adult placed under or subject to supervision as the result of the commission of a criminal offense and released to the community under the jurisdiction of courts, paroling or probation authorities, or other criminal justice agencies.
(j) Person. — Means any individual, corporation, business or other public or private legal entity.
(k) Rules. — Means edicts of the Interstate Commission, duly promulgated pursuant to § 1440 of this title and substantially affecting interested parties in addition to the Interstate Commission, which have the force and effect of law in the Compacting States.
(l) State. — Means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, or any other territorial possession of the United States.
(m) State Council. — Means the resident members of the State Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision created by each state under Article III of this Compact.
History —Aug. 11, 2004, No. 208, § 1, art. 2.