As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:

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(1) ‘Department’ means the Department of Corrections.

(2) ‘Department of Corrections institutions’ means those Department of Corrections facilities used for the incarceration of persons sentenced to the custody of the Department of Corrections, and includes the satellites, camps or branches of those facilities.

(3) ‘Director’ means the Director of the Department of Corrections.

(4) ‘Discharge’ means any lawful release from a state correctional institution pursuant to the expiration of a judicial sentence or other incarcerative sanction.

(5) ‘Release authority’ means an entity having authority to grant release in a particular case. [Amended by 1959 c.687 § 6; 1965 c.616 § 47; 1969 c.502 § 8; 1971 c.212 § 1; 1983 c.505 § 7; 1987 c.320 § 7; 1989 c.790 § 55]

[Renumbered 421.605]

[Formerly 421.086; repealed by 1969 c.502 § 27]

[Amended by 1953 c.476 § 5; repealed by 1965 c.616 § 48 (421.016 enacted in lieu of 421.015)]

[1965 c.616 § 49 (enacted in lieu of 421.015); 1969 c.502 § 1; 1971 c.212 § 2; repealed by 1987 c.320 § 246]

[Amended by 1953 c.476 § 5; repealed by 1965 c.616 § 101]

[Amended by 1953 c.476 § 5; repealed by 1959 c.80 § 2]

[Renumbered 421.615]

[Amended by 1955 c.660 § 28; repealed by 1963 c.554 § 3]

[Amended by 1965 c.616 § 50; 1987 c.320 § 160; repealed by 1997 c.851 § 17]

[Amended by 1959 c.687 § 7; repealed by 1995 c.384 § 28]

[Amended by 1959 c.687 § 8; 1965 c.616 § 51; 1975 c.631 § 2; 1987 c.320 § 161; 1993 c.18 § 106; repealed by 1995 c.384 § 28]

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