For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) AUTHORITY. The public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(2) COMMISSION. The Building Commission created by Section 41-9-140 and its successors as the state agency for awarding construction contracts and supervising construction.
(3) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Corrections created by Section 14-1-1.1 and its successors as the state agency responsible for supervising and controlling the operation of the correctional institutions of the state.
(4) STATE. The State of Alabama.
(5) BONDS. The bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter.
(6) FACILITIES. Such term includes any one or more of the following:
a. Prisons;
b. Buildings and enclosures for housing, containing or supervising prisoners; and
c. Any facilities necessary or useful in connection with prisons, buildings or enclosures, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hospitals, offices, correctional officers' quarters and residences, warehouses, garages, storage facilities, abattoirs, cold storage plants, canning plants, laundries and manufacturing plants for the employment of prison labor.
(7) KILBY PROPERTY. Such term includes all of the real property commonly referred to as Kilby prison property, embracing not only the real property owned by the state on which Kilby prison is located, but also all real property owned by the state used in connection with Kilby prison and adjacent thereto, all located in sections 2, 3, 10, 11, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, and 35 in township 17, range 18 in Montgomery County, Alabama, together with all personal property owned by the state and used in connection with Kilby prison and the real property adjacent thereto.
(8) PERRY COUNTY FACILITY. The Perry County Correctional Center, including all real property, buildings and improvements located at the facility in Perry County.
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