\nUnless otherwise clearly required by the context, the words and phrases defined in this section have the meanings indicated when used in this Part:\n(1) 'Commission' means the Social Services Commission.\n(2) 'Secretary' means the Secretary of Health and Human Services.\n(3) 'Department' means the Department of Health and Human Services.\n(4) 'Governing body' means the governing body of a county or city or the policy-making body for a district or regional confinement facility.\n(5) 'Local confinement facility' includes a county or city jail, a local lockup, a regional or district jail, a juvenile detention facility, a detention facility for adults operated by a local government, and any other facility operated by a local government for confinement of persons awaiting trial or serving sentences except that it shall not include a county satellite jail/work release unit governed by Part 3 of Article 10 of Chapter 153A.\n(6) 'Prisoner' includes any person, adult or juvenile, confined or detained in a confinement facility.\n(7) 'Unit,' 'unit of local government,' or 'local government' means a county or city. (1967, c. 581, s. 2; 1969, c. 981, s. 1; 1973, c. t or juvenile, confined or detained in a confinement facility.\n(7) 'Unit,' 'unit of local government,' or 'local government' means a county or city. (1967, c. 581, s. 2; 1969, c. 981, s. 1; 1973, c. 476, s. 138; c. 822, s. 1; 1987, c. 207, s. 2; 1997-443, s. 11A.118(a); 1998-202, s. 4(cc).)
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