Preliminary search in Alaska Statutes indicate the following:
Sec. 11.61.210. Misconduct involving weapons in the fourth degree.
(C) an unloaded firearm if the person is traversing school premises in a rural area for the purpose of entering public or private land that is open to hunting and the school board with jurisdiction over the school premises has elected to have this exemption apply to the school premises; in this subparagraph, rural" means a community with a population of 5,500 or less that is not connected by road or rail to Anchorage or Fairbanks or with a population of 1,500 or less that is connected by road or rail to Anchorage or Fairbanks; or
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Sec. 14.43.700. Definition.
In AS 14.43.600 - 14.43.700, rural" means a community with a population of 5,500 or less that is not connected by road or rail to Anchorage or Fairbanks or with a population of 1,500 or less that is connected by road or rail to Anchorage or Fairbanks.
Sec. 14.56.240. ""Rural community'' defined.
In AS 14.56.200 - 14.56.230, "rural community" means any community except a first class city of over 2,000 population.
Sec. 16.05.940. Definitions.
In AS 16.05 - AS 16.40
(27) "rural area" means a community or area of the state in which
the noncommercial, customary, and traditional use of fish or game for personal
or family consumption is a principal characteristic of the economy of the
community or area;
Sec. 18.55.997. Residential loans.
(b) In this section,
(2) "rural" has the meaning given the term "small community"
in AS 18.56.600.
Sec. 18.56.600. Definitions.
In AS 18.56.400 - 18.56.600,
(2) "small community" means a community with a population of 6,500 or less that is not connected by road or rail to Anchorage or Fairbanks, or with a population of 1,600 or less that is connected by road or rail to Anchorage or Fairbanks; in this paragraph, "connected by road" does not include a connection by the Alaska marine highway system
.Sec. 18.56.300. Construction standards for housing eligible for purchase of loans.
(e) In this section,
(2) "rural area" means a community with a population of 5,500
or less that is not connected by road or rail to Anchorage or Fairbanks;
Preliminary search in Alaska Administrative Codes indicate:
Title 7 - Health & Social Services
7 AAC 43.670 - 7 AAC 43.709,
(38) "rural health clinic visit" means a face-to-face encounter
between a rural health clinic patient and any health care professional whose
services are reimbursed by the division of medical assistance; encounters
with more than one health care professional, and multiple encounters with
the same health care professional, regarding the same illness or injury, which
take place on the same day and at a single location, constitute a single visit;(39)
"rural health clinic" means a facility that has filed an agreement
with the Department of Health and Social Services to provide rural health
clinic services under Medicaid;
7 AAC 43.874
DEFINITIONS - 7 AAC 43.870 - 7 AAC 43.874 ,(14) "rural" means an
area that is not a Metropolitan Statistical Area as determined by the United
States Office of Management and Budget in the executive branch;{NOTE: (15)
"urban" means a Metropolitan Statistical Area as determined by the
United States Office of Management and Budget in the executive branch.}
Title 15 - Revenue
15 AAC 150.910
DEFINITIONS FOR CHAPTER 150.
(13) "rural area" means a community with a population of 5,500 or
less that is not connected by road or rail to Anchorage or Fairbanks;
Title 17 - Transportation & Public Facilities
17 AAC 15.901
DEFINITIONS.
(41) "rural highway or road" means a road or highway without access controls that is located outside of an urban area;
In 17 AAC 40.700 - 17 AAC 40.795 (2) "rural airport" or "rural airports" mean an airport, heliport, or seaplane facility operated by the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, except Anchorage and Fairbanks International Airports.
Title 22 - Dept. of Corrections
22 AAC 05.660
DEFINITIONS.
(a) In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise,
(36) "traditional or rural Alaska lifestyle" means an individual's
way of life as reflected by one or both of the following: (A) an individual
whose entire life has been spent essentially in a village or rural setting
with a population of 1,000 or less, which is not connected by roadways or
ferries to a metropolitan community of greater than 1,000 population: a person
from a setting with a population greater than 1,000, such as Bethel, Nome,
Barrow or Kotzebue might fall in this category if the totality of the circumstances
indicates a background that is extremely rural or traditional in character
such as a rural Alaskan whose social experience is typified by in-village
or remote residence with his or her conduct and means of livelihood being
of a subsistence nature and lacking in exposure to non-rural life and having
negligible commercial work experience for wages; time spent for schooling
at Mt. Edgecumbe in Sitka does not in and of itself preclude a person from
being classified as having maintained a traditional, subsistence, or rural
Alaskan lifestyle; or
(B) a person who is not fluent in the English language and communicates predominantly
in an Alaska Native language;
Definition from the Social Security Act
Sec.1886(d)(2)(D):
(D) COMPUTING URBAN AND RURAL AVERAGES.
--The Secretary shall compute an average of the standardized amounts determined
under subparagraph (C) for the United States and for each region--
(i) for all subsection (d) hospitals located in an urban area within the United States or that region, respectively, and
(ii) for all subsection (d) hospitals located in a rural area within the United States or that region, respectively.
For purposes of this subsection, the term "region" means one of the nine census divisions, comprising the fifty States and the District of Columbia, established by the Bureau of the Census for statistical and reporting purposes; the term "urban area" means an area within a Metropolitan Statistical Area (as defined by the Office of Management and Budget) or within such similar area as the Secretary has recognized under subsection (a) by regulation; the term "large urban area" means, with respect to a fiscal year, such an urban area which the Secretary determines (in the publications described in subsection (e)(5) before the fiscal year) has a population of more than 1,000,000 (as determined by the Secretary based on the most recent available population data published by the Bureau of the Census); and the term "rural area" means any area outside such an area or similar area.
Definitions from the Census Bureau:
URBAN AND RURAL DEFINITIONS
Source: US Census Bureau
Released: Oct. 1995
URBAN AND RURAL
The Census Bureau defines "urban" for the 1990 census as comprising
all territory, population, and housing units in urbanized areas and in places
of 2,500 or more persons outside urbanized areas. More specifically, "urban"
consists of territory, persons, and housing units in:
- Places of 2,500 or more persons incorporated as cities, villages, boroughs
(except in Alaska and New York), and towns (except in the six New England
States, New York, and Wisconsin), but excluding the rural portions of "extended
cities."
- Census designated places of 2,500 or more persons.
- Other territory, incorporated or unincorporated, included in urbanized areas.
Territory, population, and housing units not classified as urban constitute
"rural." In the 100-percent data products, "rural" is
divided into "places of less than 2,500" and "not in places."
The "not in places" category comprises "rural" outside
incorporated and census designated places and the rural portions of extended
cities. In many data products, the term "other rural" is used; "other
rural" is a residual category specific to the classification of the rural
in each data product.
In the sample data products, rural population and housing units are subdivided
into "rural farm" and "rural nonfarm." "Rural farm"
comprises all rural households and housing units on farms (places from which
$1,000 or more of agricultural products were sold in 1989); "rural nonfarm"
comprises the remaining rural.
The urban and rural classification cuts across the other hierarchies; for
example, there is generally both urban and rural territory within both metropolitan
and nonmetropolitan areas.
In censuses prior to 1950, "urban" comprised all territory, persons,
and housing units in incorporated places of 2,500 or more persons, and in
areas (usually minor civil divisions) classified as urban under special rules
relating to population size and density. The definition of urban that restricted
itself to incorporated places having 2,500 or more persons excluded many large,
densely settled areas merely because they were not incorporated. Prior to
the 1950 census, the Census Bureau attempted to avoid some of the more obvious
omissions by classifying selected areas as "urban under special rules."
Even with these rules, however, many large, closely built-up areas were excluded
from the urban category.
To improve its measure of urban territory, population, and housing units,
the Census Bureau adopted the concept of the urbanized area and delineated
boundaries for unincorporated places (now, census designated places) for the
1950 census. Urban was defined as territory, persons, and housing units in
urbanized areas and, outside urbanized areas, in all places, incorporated
or unincorporated, that had 2,500 or more persons. With the following three
exceptions, the 1950 census definition of urban has continued substantially
unchanged. First, in the 1960 census (but not in the 1970, 1980, or 1990 censuses),
certain towns in the New England States, townships in New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
and Arlington County, Virginia, were designated as urban. However, most of
these "special rule" areas would have been classified as urban anyway
because they were included in an urbanized area or in an unincorporated place
of 2,500 or more persons. Second, "extended cities" were identified
for the 1970, 1980, and 1990 censuses. Extended cities primarily affect the
figures for urban and rural territory (area), but have very little effect
on the urban and rural population and housing units at the national and State
levels--although for some individual counties and urbanized areas, the effects
have been more evident. Third, changes since the 1970 census in the criteria
for defining urbanized areas have permitted these areas to be defined around
smaller centers.
Documentation of the urbanized area and extended city criteria is available
from the Chief, Geography Division, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington,
DC 20233.
Extended City
Since the 1960 census, there has been a trend in some States toward the extension
of city boundaries to include territory that is essentially rural in character.
The classification of all the population and living quarters of such places
as urban would include in the urban designation territory, persons, and housing
units whose environment is primarily rural. For the 1970, 1980, and 1990 censuses,
the Census Bureau identified as rural such territory and its population and
housing units for each extended city whose closely settled area was located
in an urbanized area. For the 1990 census, this classification also has been
applied to certain places outside urbanized areas. In summary presentations
by size of place, the urban portion of an extended city is classified by the
population of the entire place; the rural portion is included in "other
rural."
URBANIZED AREA (UA)
The Census Bureau delineates urbanized areas (UA's) to provide a better separation
of urban and rural territory, population, and housing in the vicinity of large
places. A UA comprises one or more places ("central place") and
the adjacent densely settled surrounding territory ("urban fringe")
that together have a minimum of 50,000 persons. The urban fringe generally
consists of contiguous territory having a density of at least 1,000 persons
per square mile. The urban fringe also includes outlying territory of such
density if it was connected to the core of the contiguous area by road and
is within 1 1/2 road miles of that core, or within 5 road miles of the core
but separated by water or other undevelopable territory. Other territory with
a population density of fewer than 1,000 people per square mile is included
in the urban fringe if it eliminates an enclave or closes an indentation in
the boundary of the urbanized area. The population density is determined by
(1) outside of a place, one or more contiguous census blocks with a population
density of at least 1,000 persons per square mile or (2) inclusion of a place
containing census blocks that have at least 50 percent of the population of
the place and a density of at least 1,000 persons per square mile. The complete
criteria are available from the Chief, Geography Division, U.S. Bureau of
the Census, Washington, DC 20233.
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