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77-27-1. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Appearance" means any opportunity to address the board, a board member, a panel,or hearing officer, including an interview.
(2) "Board" means the Board of Pardons and Parole.
(3) "Commission" means the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.
(4) "Commutation" is the change from a greater to a lesser punishment after conviction.
(5) "Department" means the Department of Corrections.
(6) "Expiration" occurs when the maximum sentence has run.
(7) "Family" means persons related to the victim as a spouse, child, sibling, parent, orgrandparent, or the victim's legal guardian.
(8) "Hearing" means an appearance before the board, a panel, a board member or hearingexaminer, at which an offender or inmate is afforded an opportunity to be present and address theboard, and encompasses the term "full hearing."
(9) "Location," in reference to a hearing, means the physical location at which the board,a panel, a board member, or a hearing examiner is conducting the hearing, regardless of thelocation of any person participating by electronic means.
(10) "Open session" means any hearing before the board, a panel, a board member, or ahearing examiner which is open to the public, regardless of the location of any personparticipating by electronic means.
(11) "Panel" means members of the board assigned by the chairperson to a particularcase.
(12) "Pardon" is an act of grace by an appropriate authority exempting a person frompunishment for a crime.
(13) "Parole" is a release from imprisonment on prescribed conditions which, ifsatisfactorily performed by the parolee, enables the parolee to obtain a termination of hissentence.
(14) "Probation" is an act of grace by the court suspending the imposition or execution ofa convicted offender's sentence upon prescribed conditions.
(15) "Reprieve or respite" is the temporary suspension of the execution of the sentence.
(16) "Termination" is the act of an appropriate authority discharging from parole orconcluding the sentence of imprisonment prior to the expiration of the sentence.
(17) "Victim" means:
(a) a person against whom the defendant committed a felony or class A misdemeanoroffense, and regarding which offense a hearing is held under this chapter; or
(b) the victim's family, if the victim is deceased as a result of the offense for which ahearing is held under this chapter.

Amended by Chapter 110, 2010 General Session