As used in this chapter:

(a) “Community” means city or county governments or portions or combinations thereof.

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(b) “Elderly or senior citizen” means individuals 55 years of age or older.

(c) “Teenagers and young adults” means individuals between the ages of 15 and 24 years of age.

(d) “Community policing” means the coalescing of community organizations, residents, law enforcement, public social services, education, churches, and local governmental entities to unitedly combat illegal drug activity within a designated neighborhood, and create employment opportunity for neighborhood residents. In no case shall “community policing” include expenditures for the purchase of law enforcement equipment which would have been purchased from existing resources in the normal course of business.

(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1419, Sec. 1.)