Section 2596. Definitions  


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  • As used in this title:
        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 program, 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.