Okla. Admin. Code § 310:410-3-2
The following words and terms, when used in this Subchapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Above 50% WIC Vendor" means a WIC retail vendor who expects to derive more than 50% of their annual food sales revenue from the redemption of WIC food benefits from all of the WIC Programs for which they are authorized.
"Administrative warning" means a written notice which describes the nature of a violation to the WIC Program and a request for correction of the violation.
"APL" means the Approved Products List.
"Applicant" means the individual, partnership, limited partnership, unincorporated association, or corporation applying to be a WIC retail vendor, includes both Above 50% and Regular WIC Vendors.
"Application" means the application forms and other required materials submitted by a business entity to notify the department that the business entity desires to become a WIC retail vendor.
"Authorization" means the approval of an applicant who has met the WIC vendor criteria and has accepted a WIC vendor agreement as a WIC retail vendor.
"Business entity" means the retail business which an applicant or authorized WIC vendor operates at a particular vendor site.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Oklahoma State Department of Health or his designee.
"Corporate officer" means the identity of the officer of a corporation as set forth in its articles of incorporation as filed with the secretary of state wherein such entity is incorporated.
"Department" means the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
"Department representative" or "Representative of the Department" means an employee or authorized agent of the department.
"Food Benefits" means an electronic benefits transfer card (EBT) that document the specified supplemental WIC approved foods and the quantities of these foods for a specified period of time that have been prescribed for a WIC participant and is used to obtain supplemental WIC approved foods.
"Grocery store" means a fixed and permanent retail store whose primary business is the sale of food.
"Local agency" means a public or private, non-profit health or human services agency which provides health services, either directly or through an agreement, in accordance with the USDA WIC Regulations, or this Subchapter.
"MAR" means the Maximum Allowable Reimbursement amount for WIC approved foods.
"OAPA" means the Oklahoma Administrative Procedure Act.
"Oklahoma WIC retail food delivery system" means the system in which participants obtain WIC approved foods by processing a food benefit at a WIC retail vendor.
"Participant" means authorized pregnant women, breast-feeding women, postpartum women, infants or children who are receiving supplemental WIC approved foods or food benefits under the WIC Program.
"Participant requested delivery" means a participant requested delivery of WIC approved foods from a vendor to an address specified by the WIC participant or proxy.
"Participant/vendor ratio" means the total number of WIC participants in a given region divided by the total number of WIC retail vendors in the same region.
"Peer Group" means the classification of WIC retail vendors with regards to competitive pricing.
"Pharmacy" means any store, shop, department, or other place at a fixed and permanent location, where drugs, medicines, or liquid foods prescribed by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, for an individual are dispensed, or sold or offered for sale at retail value.
"Proxy" means a person who is authorized by the local agency and the WIC participant to accept and/or redeem food benefits on a participant's behalf.
"Regular WIC Vendor" means any WIC retail vendor who has not been determined to be an Above 50% WIC Vendor.
"Retail vendor price survey" means the current prices, reported to the department, by a vendor or a department representative as charges for WIC Approved Foods.
"Store type" means the classification of WIC retail vendors by their gross retail sales per year. Up to 1.5 million dollars in sales is a type 1 vendor site; 1.5 million to 5 million dollars in sales is a type 2 vendor site; over 5 million dollars in sales is a type 3 vendor site. A commissary is a type 4 vendor site and a pharmacy is a type 5 vendor site. An Above 50% vendor is a type 6 vendor site.
"SNAP" means the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly "Food Stamp."
"USDA" means the United States Department of Agriculture.
"USDA WIC regulations" means the regulations of the United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children. 7 CFR 246 (1990).
"Vendor" or "WIC retail vendor" means the individual, partnership, limited partnership, unincorporated association, or corporation authorized by the department to accept food benefits and to provide supplemental food to WIC participants or proxies of WIC participants, includes both Above 50% and Regular Vendors.
"Vendor number" means the number assigned to a vendor by the department for tracking food benefit redemptions.
"Vendor site" means a fixed and permanent location, operating as a business entity, listed in the WIC vendor application, which has been authorized by the department for purposes of delivery of WIC approved foods to WIC participants or the proxy of a WIC participant.
"WIC food list" means the published list of State of Oklahoma authorized WIC approved foods.
"WIC approved foods" means those competitively priced foods which have been placed on the WIC food list, which have been determined by the department to be nutritionally qualified for the WIC Program in the state of Oklahoma.
"WIC service director" means the person responsible for the implementation and administration of the WIC Program.
"WIC vendor agreement" means an agreement signed by the WIC retail vendor and the department for the provision of WIC approved foods to participants.
"Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Program" or "WIC" means the federal special supplemental food program for women, infants and children authorized by Section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1786).
Okla. Admin. Code § 310:410-3-2