N.J. Admin. Code § 13:101-1.3
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Bodily fluid" means saliva, blood, urine, feces, seminal fluid or any other fluid produced by the body.
"Bodily injury" means physical pain, illness or any impairment of physical condition.
"Chief Investigator, Office of Investigations" means the Commission staff member who heads the unit responsible for conducting investigations within the Commission at the direction of the Executive Director.
"Commission" means the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission.
"Committed juvenile" or "juvenile" means an individual who has been adjudicated delinquent and sentenced to a term of incarceration to be served under the custody of the Commission. For the purpose of this chapter, "committed juvenile" or "juvenile" shall only refer to those individuals residing in a Juvenile Justice Commission facility.
"Counsel substitute" means an individual, such as a juvenile paralegal, teacher or social worker, who represents and defends a juvenile at a disciplinary hearing which is conducted within a facility under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Justice Commission.
"Custody status" means the degree of supervision that is assigned to a juvenile in a Commission facility.
"Director of Custody Operations" means the Commission staff member at each secure facility of the Commission responsible for supervising the custody work force.
"Director of Operations" means the Commission staff member, by whatever name or title, charged with oversight and management responsibilities for the overall operation and supervision of the Commission's secure and non-secure facilities.
"Disciplinary Hearing Officer" means a staff member of the Juvenile Justice Commission designated to hear and adjudicate juvenile violations.
"Executive Board" means the Executive Board of the Commission.
"Executive Director" means the Executive Director of the Commission.
"Extra work duty" means a task in addition to those related to a juvenile's work or program assignment to which a juvenile has been assigned as a sanction for committing a violation.
"Facility" means any facility operated by the Commission which houses juveniles.
"Facility restriction" means the restriction of the juvenile to the confines of the facility's building or grounds.
"Gang" means a group of juveniles possessing common characteristics, interests and goals which serve to distinguish these juveniles from other juveniles or groups of juveniles and which, as a discrete entity, poses a threat to the safety of staff, other juveniles, the community or to the orderly operation of the facility.
"Handbook on Discipline" means a handbook prepared by the Commission and provided to juveniles which contains a juvenile's rights and responsibilities, the acts and activities which are prohibited and the disciplinary procedures and sanctions imposed.
"Institutional Classification Committee (I.C.C.)" means a group of Commission staff members that have been designated to make decisions related to the assignment or reassignment of juveniles to programs and activities within a Commission facility and to conduct initial reviews of juvenile requests for transfer to another such facility.
"Juvenile Handbook" means a booklet prepared by the Commission and provided to juveniles which contains a facility's rules, procedures and information about a facility's services and programs.
"Office of Investigations" means the unit responsible for conducting investigations within the Commission at the direction of the Executive Director.
"Program Separation Unit" means an area within a secure facility designated for assigning juveniles who are removed from the general population for disciplinary or administrative reasons.
"Room restriction" means confining a juvenile for disciplinary or administrative reasons, either in the room in which he or she usually sleeps or in a room in a program separation unit.
"Sanction" means a prescribed penalty or remedial action that is imposed for a violation.
"Secure facility" means any Commission facility which houses juveniles and employs custody personnel (52:17B-174 ) to provide security.
"Serious bodily injury" means bodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death or which causes serious, permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ.
"Shift supervisor" means the juvenile corrections officer of supervisory rank in those facilities employing custody personnel who is responsible for the maintenance of security during a tour of duty.
"Superintendent" means the chief executive officer of any Commission facility which houses juveniles.
"Unit manager" means the person designated by the Superintendent of a facility not employing custody personnel to be in charge of the shift in that facility.
"Weapon" means anything readily capable of lethal use or inflicting serious bodily injury.
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