Rule 5120:1-3-05 | Glossary of terms.
As used in rules 5120:1-3-01 to 5120:1-3-18 of the Administrative Code, the following terms have the following meanings:
(A) "Agency director": A person designated by the board of trustees or other governing body of the licensed facility as the principal executive officer of a community correctional center or other licensed facility.
(B) "Appointing authority": The deputy director of the division of parole and community services.
(C) "Audit report": A report prepared by a certified public accountant of an agency's fiscal activities, including, but not limited to, costs, income, and expenditures.
(D) "Licensed": The formal acknowledgment by the division of parole and community services that a halfway house or community residential center operates a licensed facility.
(E) "Licensing agency": The division of parole and community services vested with statutory and administrative authority to establish standards for halfway houses and community residential centers and to determine whether an applicant meets those standards and therefore qualifies as a licensed facility.
(F) "Costs": As determined on a cash, accrual, or other basis as meeting the test of generally accepted accounting principles by the division of parole and community services, the amount paid for the operation of the licensed facility.
(G) "Documentation": The formal, official records of transactions and events for the purpose of verification and public accountability.
(H) "Eligible offender": Adult felony offenders who are actively supervised by the adult parole authority or common pleas court probation department, required by a court to seek treatment in lieu of conviction and actively supervised by a common pleas court probation department, or individuals released from a department of rehabilitation and correction penal institution. Eligible offenders do not include federal offenders, municipal offenders, or individuals supervised or released by the Ohio department of youth services.
(I) "Facility": The actual physical setting in which a program or agency functions.
(J) "Governing authority": That entity within an agency that has responsibility and authority to set policies and procedures.
(K) "Program review or monitoring team: Individuals employed by the division of parole and community services and/or other private or governmental entity personnel who have a contract agreement with the licensed facility. The program review or or site monitoring team shall be comprised of bureau of community sanction staff and/or other individuals, as approved by designated personnel within the division of parole and community services.
(L) "Institution": Any penal institution operated directly by the department of rehabilitation and correction or by a public or private agency in contract with the department of rehabilitation and correction that is used for the custody, care, or treatment of criminal offenders.
(M) "Manday": Each twenty-four hour period an eligible offender is in a licensed facility.
(N) "Offender": Any individual under the supervision of the division of parole and community services , under the supervision of a common pleas court, or incarcerated in a department of rehabilitation and correction institution.
(O) "Licensed facility": Includes, but is not limited to, halfway houses and community residential centers that have been licensed by the division of parole and community services to house eligible offenders.
(P) "Program director": The person responsible for the day-to-day operations of a licensed facility.
(Q) "Supervising authority": The entity designated to provide supervision to offenders.
(R) "Unusual incident": Any event having internal or external ramifications or news media interest of sufficient seriousness to warrant immediate attention. Such incidents include, but are not limited to, fires, assaults, property loss or damage, and events of an apparently criminal nature.
(S) "Adult parole authority (APA)": The section of the division of parole and community services that includes field services, the parole board, and interstate compact.
(T) "Bureau of community sanctions": The bureau in the division of parole and community services that includes oversight and funding of community-based correctional facilities, community corrections act programs, halfway houses , and community residential centers.
(U) "Division of parole and community services (DPCS)": The division of the department of rehabilitation and correction that includes field services, the bureau of community sanctions, the parole board, the bureau of adult detention, and the office of victim services.
(V) "Halfway house": A facility licensed by the department of rehabilitation and correction under section 2967.14 of the Revised Code as a suitable facility for the care and treatment of adult offenders.
Last updated April 24, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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