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426.002  Definitions.--As used in ss. 426.001-426.009, unless the context otherwise requires, the term:

(1)  "Anticrime services" or "services" includes, but is not limited to, such services as security hardware services, security lighting services, security guard services, neighborhood watch programs, property identification services, crime-prevention information dissemination services, victim or witness assistance services, and victim counseling services aimed at alleviating the emotional and psychological trauma which may accompany criminal victimization.

(2)  "Bureau" means the Bureau of Public Safety Management of the Division of Housing and Community Development of the Department of Community Affairs.

(3)  "Elderly" describes a person who is 62 years of age or older.

(4)  "Handicapped" describes a person who:

(a)  Has a physical or mental impairment which is expected to be of long, continued, and indefinite duration and which substantially impedes such person's ability to live independently;

(b)  Is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months; or

(c)  Is 55 years of age or older, is legally blind, and is unable by reason of such blindness to engage in a gainful activity requiring skills or abilities comparable to those of any gainful activity in which such person has previously engaged with some regularity and over a substantial period of time.

(5)  "Housing authority" means any public or private nonprofit housing authority, by whatever name known, that owns or operates an eligible housing project.

(6)  "Housing project" means:

(a)  Any housing project owned or operated by a public housing authority, 85 percent or more of the tenancy of which housing project is made up of elderly or handicapped persons; or

(b)  Any private nonprofit housing project financed by a mortgage loan that is made or insured by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development under s. 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended, or s. 236 of the National Housing Act of 1934, as those sections apply to rental housing programs for lower-income elderly and handicapped persons.

(7)  "Target area" means the housing project for which application is being made; the grounds associated with the housing project; and the immediately surrounding area contiguous to the housing project or within easy walking distance of the housing project, not to exceed 1/4 mile in any direction from the outer boundary of the housing project.

History.--s. 3, ch. 84-250; s. 2, ch. 87-155; s. 51, ch. 87-225.