Sec. 7210.2. Definitions

(a) Commission means the State Commission of Correction.

(b) Commissioner means the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

(c) Facility means a county jail or penitentiary or a correctional institution under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Correction.

(d) Facility administrator means the chief administrative officer of a county jail or penitentiary.

(e) Institution means a correctional facility under the jurisdiction of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

(f) Suitable place means a building in the county which is capable of providing shelter and security for prisoners and which is designed and equipped to satisfy the requirements of State and local codes pertaining to sanitation, fire safety and public assembly.

(g) Extraordinary circumstances includes acts or substantial threats of acts of violence which threaten to breach the security of a facility, taking hostages, mass arrests, inmate disturbance, riot, escape or work stoppage.

(h) Civil disaster includes pestilential diseases, nuclear accidents and toxic chemical spills.

(i) Natural disaster includes fire, earthquake, flood, hurricane or landslide.