[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 7, Volume 4]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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, 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]