Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5120:1 - Division of Parole and Community Services › Chapter 5120:1-3 - Adult Parole Authority Licensed Facilities › Section 5120:1-3-05 - Glossary of terms

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in rules
				5120:1-3-01
				to
				5120:1-3-18
				of the Administrative Code, the following terms have the following
				meanings:
(A) "Agency director": A
			 person designated by the board of trustees or other governing body of the
			 licensed facility as the principal executive officer of a community
			 correctional center or other licensed facility.
(B) "Agency program": Those activities and
			 operations of the licensed facility that are necessary to carry out the purpose
			 of the licensed facility.
(C)
			 "Appointing authority": The deputy director of the division of parole and
			 community services.
(D) "Audit
			 report": A report prepared by a certified public accountant of an agency's
			 fiscal activities, including, but not limited to, costs, income, and
			 expenditures.
(E) "Licensed": The
			 formal acknowledgment by the division of parole and community services that a
			 halfway house, community residential center, or similar facility operates a
			 licensed facility.
(F) "Licensing
			 agency": The division of parole and community services vested with statutory
			 and administrative authority to establish standards for halfway houses and
			 other community residential centers and to determine whether an applicant
			 halfway house meets those standards and therefore qualifies as a licensed
			 facility.
(G) "Costs": As
			 determined on a cash, accrual, or other basis as meeting the test of generally
			 accepted accounting principles by the division of parole and community
			 services, the amount paid for the operation of the licensed facility.
(H) "Documentation": The formal, official
			 records of transactions and events for the purpose of verification and public
			 accountability.
(I) "Eligible
			 offender": Adult felony offenders actively supervised by the adult parole
			 authority, supervised by common pleas court probation staff, required by a
			 court to seek treatment in lieu of conviction and actively supervised by a
			 common pleas court probation department, or offenders released from a
			 department of rehabilitation and correction penal institution. Eligible
			 offenders do not include federal offenders, municipal offenders, or offenders
			 supervised or released by the Ohio department of youth services.
(J) "Facility": The actual physical setting
			 in which a program or agency functions.
(K) "Governing authority": That entity within
			 an agency that has responsibility and authority to set policies and
			 procedures.
(L) "Audit
			 or site inspection team": Individuals employed by
			 the division of parole and community services and/or other private or
			 governmental entity personnel who have a contract agreement with the licensed
			 facility. The audit or site inspection team shall
			 be comprised of bureau of community sanction staff and/or other individuals, as
			 approved by the assistant chief of community residential services.
(M) "Institution": Any penal institution
			 operated directly by the department of rehabilitation and correction or by a
			 public or private agency in contract with the department of rehabilitation and
			 correction that is used for the custody, care, or treatment of criminal
			 offenders.
(N) "Manday": Each
			 twenty-four hour period an eligible offender is in a licensed
			 facility.
(O) "Offender": Any
			 individual under the supervision of the adult parole authority, under the
			 supervision of a common pleas court, or incarcerated in a department of
			 rehabilitation and correction institution.
(P) "Licensed facility": Includes, but is not
			 limited to, halfway houses, community residential centers, and similar
			 facilities that have been licensed by the division of parole and community
			 services to house eligible offenders.
(Q) "Program director": The person
			 responsible for the day-to-day operations of a licensed facility.
(R) "Supervising authority": The entity
			 designated to provide supervision to offenders.
(S) "Unusual incident": Any event having
			 internal or external ramifications or news media interest of sufficient
			 seriousness to warrant immediate attention. Such incidents include, but are not
			 limited to, fires, assaults, property loss or damage, and events of an
			 apparently criminal nature.
(T)
			 "Adult parole authority (APA)": That section of the division of parole and
			 community services that includes field services, the parole board, and
			 interstate compact.
(U) "Bureau of
			 community sanctions": That bureau in the division of parole and community
			 services that includes oversight and funding of community-based correctional
			 facilities, community corrections act programs, halfway house programs, and
			 other community residential centers.
(V) "Division of parole and community
			 services (DPCS)": That division of the department of rehabilitation and
			 correction that includes the adult parole authority, the bureau of community
			 sanctions, the parole board, and the office of
			 victim services.
(W) "Halfway
			 house": A facility licensed by the department of rehabilitation and correction
			 under section 2967.14 of the Revised Code as a
			 suitable facility for the care and treatment of adult offenders.
Effective: 7/11/2016
Five Year
				Review (FYR) Dates: 01/28/2016 and
				01/08/2021
Promulgated
				Under: 111.15
Statutory
				Authority: 5120.01,
				2967.14,
				2967.26
Rule
				Amplifies: 2967.14,
				2967.26
Prior
				Effective Dates: 4/1/82, 7/1/91, 12/20/96, 11/10/99, 12/15/10,
				9/1/11