[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR273.3]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
    CHAPTER II--FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 273--CERTIFICATION OF ELIGIBLE HOUSEHOLDS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 273.3  Residency.

    (a) A household shall live in the State in which it files an 
application for participation. The State agency may also require a 
household to file an application for participation in a specified 
project area (as defined in Sec. 271.2 of this chapter) or office within 
the State. No individual may participate as a member of more than one 
household or in more than one project area, in any month, unless an 
individual is a resident of a shelter for battered women and children as 
defined in Sec. 271.2 and was a member of a household containing the 
person who had abused him or her. Residents of shelters for battered 
women and children shall be handled in accordance with Sec. 273.11(g). 
The State agency shall not impose any durational residency requirements. 
The State agency shall not require an otherwise eligible household to 
reside in a permanent dwelling or have a fixed mailing address as a 
condition of eligibility. Nor shall residency require an intent to 
reside permanently in the State or project area. Persons in a project 
area solely for vacation purposes shall not be considered residents.
    (b) When a household moves within the State, the State agency may 
require the household to reapply in the new project area or it may 
transfer the household's casefile to the new project area and continue 
the household's certification without reapplication. If the State agency 
chooses to transfer the case, it shall act on changes in household 
circumstances resulting from the move in accordance with Sec. 273.12(c) 
or Sec. 273.21. It shall also ensure that duplicate participation does 
not occur in accordance with Sec. 272.4(f) of this chapter,

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and that the transfer of a household's case shall not adversely affect 
the household.

[46 FR 60166, Dec. 8, 1981, as amended by Amdt. 211, 47 FR 53317, Nov. 
26, 1982; Amdt. 269, 51 FR 10785, Mar. 28, 1986; Amdt. 274, 51 FR 18750, 
May 21, 1986; Amdt. 364, 61 FR 54317, Oct. 17, 1996]