{"data":{"id":"us-vt/28-v.s.a.-1602","jurisdiction":"us-vt","citation":"28 V.S.A. § 1602","heading":"Definitions—Article II","body":"As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:\n(a) “State” means a state of the United States; the United States of America; a territory or possession of the United States; the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.\n(b) “Sending state” means a state party to this compact in which conviction or court commitment was had.\n(c) “Receiving state” means a state party to this compact to which an inmate is sent for confinement other than a state in which conviction or court commitment was had.\n(d) “Inmate” means a male or female offender who is committed, under sentence to or confined in a penal or correctional institution.\n(e) “Institution” means any penal or correctional facility, including but not limited to a facility for the mentally ill or mentally defective, in which inmates as defined in subsection (d) above may lawfully be confined.","path":["Title 28: Public Institutions and Corrections","Chapter 027: Interstate Corrections Compact","Subchapter 001: THE COMPACT"],"source_url":"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/28/027/01602","current_through":"2025 session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:17:09Z","sha256":"1a98d67b07a88e0fd28e0560aa6c25d576ce77f5e87a2d606df83bef8674c57f","source_id":"us-vt","stale":false,"prev":"us-vt/28-v.s.a.-1601","next":"us-vt/28-v.s.a.-1603"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}