§ 1402.
153 words·~1 min read·
/vt/title-28/chapter-23/1402A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
§ 1402. Definitions—Article II
As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(a)“State” means a state of the United States, located in New England, to wit, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
(b)“Sending state” means a state party to this compact in which conviction or court commitment was had.
(c)“Receiving state” means a state party to this compact to which an inmate is sent for confinement other than a state in which conviction or court commitment was had.
(d)“Inmate” means a male or female offender who is committed, under sentence to or confined in a penal or correctional institution.
(e)“Institutions” means any penal or correctional facility (including but not limited to a facility for the mentally ill or mentally defective) in which inmates as defined subsection
(d)above may lawfully be confined. (Added 1961, No. 213, § 2, eff. July 11, 1961.)