Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-5-203
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Definitions
Official statutory text
As used in the Healthy Food Financing Act:
1. "Board" means the State Board of Agriculture;
2. "Department" means the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture,
Food, and Forestry;
3. "Financing" means loans, grants and forgivable loans;
4. "Grocery store" means a for-profit or not-for-profit self-
service retail establishment that primarily sells meat, seafood,
fruits, vegetables, dairy products, dry groceries, household
products and sundries;
5. "Low-income community" means a census tract, as reported in
the most recent decennial census published by the United States
Bureau of the Census, that has a poverty rate of at least twenty
percent (20%) or in which the median family income does not exceed
eighty percent (80%) of the greater of the statewide or metropolitan
median family income;
6. "Moderate income community" means a census tract, as
reported in the most recent decennial census published by the United
States Bureau of the Census, in which the median family income is
between eighty-one percent (81%) and ninety-five percent (95%) of
the statewide or metropolitan median family income;
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 2. Agriculture Page 232
7. "Small food retailer" means a small retail outlet less than
two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet, which sells a limited
selection of foods and other products; and
8. "Underserved community" means a census tract, as reported in
the most recent decennial census published by the United States
Bureau of the Census, determined to be an area with low supermarket
access by either the United States Department of Agriculture, as
identified in the Food Access Research Atlas, or through a
methodology that has been adopted for use by another governmental
healthy food initiative.
1. "Board" means the State Board of Agriculture;
2. "Department" means the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture,
Food, and Forestry;
3. "Financing" means loans, grants and forgivable loans;
4. "Grocery store" means a for-profit or not-for-profit self-
service retail establishment that primarily sells meat, seafood,
fruits, vegetables, dairy products, dry groceries, household
products and sundries;
5. "Low-income community" means a census tract, as reported in
the most recent decennial census published by the United States
Bureau of the Census, that has a poverty rate of at least twenty
percent (20%) or in which the median family income does not exceed
eighty percent (80%) of the greater of the statewide or metropolitan
median family income;
6. "Moderate income community" means a census tract, as
reported in the most recent decennial census published by the United
States Bureau of the Census, in which the median family income is
between eighty-one percent (81%) and ninety-five percent (95%) of
the statewide or metropolitan median family income;
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 2. Agriculture Page 232
7. "Small food retailer" means a small retail outlet less than
two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet, which sells a limited
selection of foods and other products; and
8. "Underserved community" means a census tract, as reported in
the most recent decennial census published by the United States
Bureau of the Census, determined to be an area with low supermarket
access by either the United States Department of Agriculture, as
identified in the Food Access Research Atlas, or through a
methodology that has been adopted for use by another governmental
healthy food initiative.
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