provisions, further providing for supervisory relationship to
offenders; in preliminary provisions, further providing for
definitions; in general administration, providing for powers
of peace officers; in community corrections centers and
community corrections facilities, further providing for
definitions, for department, for offenders who may be housed,
for authority of Commonwealth employees, for authority of
chairman and for escape and providing for certain offenders
residing in group-based homes and for reporting; in
Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing
for definitions, for operation of parole system generally,
for Pennsylvania Parole Board, for board chairperson, for
board action, for meetings and for offices, repealing
provisions relating to district directors, to district office
employees, to disciplinary action and to certain offenders
residing in group-based homes, further providing for general
powers of board and for specific powers of board involving
parolees, repealing provisions relating to probation
services, further providing for sentencing court to transmit
records to board, for general criteria for parole by court,
for right of access to inmates, for parole power, for
violation of terms of parole, for parole procedure, for
victim statements, testimony and participation in hearing,
for general rules and special regulations and for early
parole of inmates subject to Federal removal order and
repealing provisions relating to definitions, to status as
peace officers and to supervisory relationship to offenders;
providing for supervision of offenders and for agents; in
county probation officers' firearm education and training,
further providing for definitions; in Interstate Compacts,
further providing for Interstate Compact for the Supervision
of Adult Offenders application fee, for deputization and for
supervision of persons paroled by other states; providing for
Board of Pardons; conferring powers and imposing duties on
the Department of Corrections; providing for the transfer of
functions, powers and duties of the Pennsylvania Board of
Probation and Parole and for appropriations for the Office of
Victim Advocate; making related repeals; and making editorial
changes.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definition of "board" in section 2151.1 of
Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to
read:
§ 2151.1. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter
shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Board." The Pennsylvania [Board of Probation and] Parole
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