Section 102 - DefinitionsAs used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(a) "State" means a state of the United States; the United States of America; a territory or possession of the United States; the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.(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 incarcerated individual is sent for confinement other than a state in which conviction or court commitment was had.(d) " Incarcerated individual" means a male or female offender who is committed, under sentence to or confined in a penal or correctional institution.(e) "Institution" means any penal or correctional facility, including but not limited to a facility for the mentally ill or mentally defective, in which incarcerated individuals as defined in subdivision (d) of this section may lawfully be confined.Amended by New York Laws 2021 , ch. 322, Sec. 147, eff. 8/2/2021.