For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them.
"Administrative restriction" means any measure utilized by the commissioner to maintain safety and security, protect possible evidence, and prevent the continuation of suspected criminal acts. Administrative restriction does not mean protective isolation as defined by Minnesota Rules, part 9515.3090, subpart 4. Administrative restriction may include increased monitoring, program limitations, loss of privileges, restricted access to and use of possessions, and separation of a committed person from the normal living environment, as determined by the commissioner or the commissioner's designee. Administrative restriction applies only to committed persons in a secure treatment facility as defined in subdivision 13 who:
"Commissioner" means the commissioner of human services or the commissioner's designee.
"Committed person" means an individual committed under this chapter, or under this chapter and under section 253B.18. It includes individuals described in section 246B.01, subdivision 1a, and any person committed as a sexually dangerous person, a person with a psychopathic personality, or a person with a sexual psychopathic personality under any previous statute including section 526.10 or chapter 253B.
"Committing court" means the district court where a petition for commitment was decided.
"Court examiner" has the meaning given in section 253B.02, subdivision 4d.
"Executive director" has the meaning given in section 246B.01, subdivision 2c.
"Interested person" has the meaning given in section 253B.02, subdivision 10.
"Peace officer" has the meaning given in section 253B.02, subdivision 16.
"Respondent" means an individual who is the subject of a petition for commitment as a sexually dangerous person or a person with a sexual psychopathic personality.
"Safety" means protection of persons or property from potential danger, risk, injury, harm, or damage.
"Secure treatment facility" means the Minnesota Sex Offender Program facility in Moose Lake and any portion of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program operated by the Minnesota Sex Offender Program at the Minnesota Security Hospital, but does not include services or programs administered by the Minnesota Sex Offender Program outside a secure environment.
"Security" means the measures necessary to achieve the management and accountability of patients of the facility, staff, and visitors, as well as property of the facility.
"Sexual psychopathic personality" means the existence in any person of such conditions of emotional instability, or impulsiveness of behavior, or lack of customary standards of good judgment, or failure to appreciate the consequences of personal acts, or a combination of any of these conditions, which render the person irresponsible for personal conduct with respect to sexual matters, if the person has evidenced, by a habitual course of misconduct in sexual matters, an utter lack of power to control the person's sexual impulses and, as a result, is dangerous to other persons.
Minn. Stat. § 253D.02
1Sp1994 c 1 art 1 s 1-3; 1997 c 217 art 1 s 16, 17; 2004 c 288 art 3 s 14-16; 2010 c 299 s 14; 2013 c 49 s 2, 10