2012 New York Consolidated Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 8-A - (465 - 465-D) NUTRITION OUTREACH AND PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAM
465-A - Definitions.

 
    § 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.