* § 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 incarcerated individual" 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
incarcerated individuals 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
incarcerated individual participating in a furlough program may travel,
the routes he or she is permitted to use, the places he or she is
authorized to visit, and the hours, days, or specially defined period
during which he or she 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may be withdrawn at any time.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* NB Repealed September 1, 2025