Okla. Stat. tit. 22, § 22-988.2

A. For purposes of the Oklahoma Community Sentencing Act:

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1. "Local community sentencing system" means the use of public

and private entities to deliver services to the sentencing court for

punishment of eligible offenders under the authority of a community

sentence;

2. "Community sentence" or "community punishment" means a

punishment imposed by the court as a condition of a deferred or

suspended sentence for an eligible offender;

3. "Continuum of sanctions" means a variety of coercive

measures ranked by degrees of public safety, punitive effect, and

cost benefit which are available to the sentencing judge as

punishment for criminal conduct;

4. "Community sentencing system planning council" or "planning

council" means a group of citizens and elected officials specified

by law or appointed by the Chief Judge of the Judicial District

which plans the local community sentencing system and with the

assistance of the Community Sentencing Division of the Department of

Corrections locates treatment providers and resources to support the

local community sentencing system;

5. "Incentive" means a court-ordered reduction in the terms or

conditions of a community sentence which is given for exceptional

performance or progress by the offender;

6. "Disciplinary sanction" means a court-ordered punishment in

response to a technical or noncompliance violation of a community

sentence which increases in intensity or duration with each

successive violation;

7. "Division" means the Community Sentencing Division within

the Department of Corrections which is the state administration

agency for the Oklahoma Community Sentencing Act, the statewide

community sentencing system, and all local community sentencing

systems;

8. "Eligible offender" means an offender who has been convicted

of or who has entered a plea other than not guilty to a crime and

who upon completion of a risk and needs assessment has been found to

be in a range other than the low range and who is not otherwise

prohibited by law, or is a person who has had an assessment

authorized by Section 3-704 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma Statutes

and the assessment recommends community sentencing. Provided,

however, that no person who has been convicted of or who has entered

a plea other than not guilty to an offense enumerated in paragraph 2

of Section 571 of Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes, as an exception

to the definition of "nonviolent offense", shall be eligible for a

community sentence or community punishment unless the district

attorney or an assistant district attorney for the district in which

the offender's conviction was obtained consents thereto. The

district attorney may consent to eligibility for an offender who has

a mental illness or a developmental disability or a co-occurring

mental illness and substance abuse disorder and who scores in the

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low range on the risk and needs assessment authorized by Section 3-

704 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma Statutes or another assessment

instrument if the offender is not otherwise prohibited by law. Any

consent by a district attorney shall be made a part of the record of

the case; and

9. "Statewide community sentencing system" means a network of

all counties through their respective local community sentencing

systems serving the state judicial system and offering support

services to each other through reciprocal and interlocal agreements

and interagency cooperation.

B. For the purposes of the Oklahoma Community Sentencing Act,

if a judicial district does not have a Chief Judge or if a judicial

district has more than one Chief Judge, the duties of the Chief

Judge provided for in the Oklahoma Community Sentencing Act shall be

performed by the Presiding Judge of the Judicial Administrative

District.