Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 53. SOCIAL SERVICES AND INSTITUTIONS

CHAPTER 30. CORRECTIONS

Part 6. Private Correctional Facilities

Definitions

53-30-602. Definitions. As used in this part, the following definitions apply:

(1) "Department" means the department of corrections provided for in 2-15-2301.

(2) (a) "Private correctional facility" means a correctional facility that is either privately operated or privately owned and operated.

(b) The term does not include a private detention center or a regional jail governed by Title 7, chapter 32, part 22.

History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 511, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 21, Ch. 491, L. 1999.