Code of Maryland Regulations
Title 01 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Subtitle 04 - OFFICE OF CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION
Chapter 01.04.01 - Domestic Violence Program
Section 01.04.01.02 - Definitions

(1) "Abuse" means:

(2) "Batterer" means an individual who has abused a current or former spouse, or current or former cohabitant.

(3) "Nonshelter services" means those services provided to the victim of domestic violence and any immediate family while not residing at the safe accommodation.

(4) "Office" means the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention.

(5) "Program" means a local domestic violence service program, in a specific area of the State, designed to meet the needs of a victim of domestic violence and the family.

(6) "Safe accommodation" means that location where the victim of domestic violence and children may take refuge from the batterer.

(7) "Shelter" means a specific facility operated by a domestic violence program designed to be a safe accommodation.

(8) "Shelter services" means those services provided to the victim of domestic violence and any children while they reside at the safe accommodation.

(9) "Victim of domestic violence" means an individual who has received deliberate, severe, and demonstrable physical injury or is in fear of imminent deliberate, severe, and demonstrable physical injury from a current or former spouse, or a current or former cohabitant, as defined in Family Law Article, §4-501, Annotated Code of Maryland.