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SECTION 465-A
Definitions
Social Services (SOS) CHAPTER 55, ARTICLE 8-A
§ 465-a. Definitions. As used in this article:

1. "High risk areas" means any county or urban area where a
significant percentage or number of those potentially eligible for food
assistance programs are not participating in such programs.

2. "Food assistance programs" means programs including but not limited
to food stamp programs, school breakfast and lunch programs, child care
food programs, summer food service programs, special supplemental
programs for women, infants and children, congregate meal programs and
home delivered meal programs.

3. "At risk populations" means populations including but not limited
to families with children receiving family assistance, households
receiving federal supplemental security income payments, households with
incomes at or below one hundred eighty-five percent of the poverty
level, recipients of emergency food, elderly or disabled persons,
homeless persons, unemployed persons, and families and persons residing
in rural households who are at risk of nutritional deficiencies.