As used in this subchapter, the following definitions apply:

(1) "ACA standards" means American correctional association standards for adult community residential services.

(2) "Aftercare" means the community-based portion of the methamphetamine treatment program to which an offender is committed after successful completion of the residential component of the program.

(3) "Contractor" means a private, nonprofit Montana corporation organized and incorporated in this state under the Montana Nonprofit Corporation Act, Title 35, chapter 2, MCA, with which the department enters a contract to operate a program.

(4) "Department" means the department of corrections established in 2-15-2301 , MCA.

(5) "Eligible offender" means an offender who has been convicted and sentenced under 45-9-102 (5) (a) (ii) , MCA, for a second or subsequent offense of possession of methamphetamine.

(6) "Facility" means a building or a part of a building that houses a residential portion of a methamphetamine treatment program.

(7) "Participant" or "program participant" means an offender approved by the department and local screening committee to participate in the methamphetamine treatment program.

(8) "Program" means only the residential portion of a methamphetamine treatment program established pursuant to HB 326 (Ch. 277) , L. 2005 and does not include, for the purposes of this subchapter, the community-based prerelease center portion of the treatment.

(9) "Residential" means a minimum of six months housed in a facility providing an intensive therapeutic community model of treatment.