(a)“Small business” means a business activity in agriculture, general construction, special trade construction, retail trade, wholesale trade, services, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing, generation and transmission of electric power, or a health care facility, unless excluded in subdivision (b), that is both of the following:
(1)Independently owned and operated.
(2)Not dominant in its field
of operation.
(b)“Small business” does not include the following professional and business activities:
(1)A financial institution including a bank, a trust, a savings and loan association, a thrift institution, a consumer finance company, a commercial finance company, an industrial finance company, a credit union, a mortgage and investment banker, a securities broker-dealer, or a
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(a)
“Small business” means a business activity in agriculture, general construction, special trade construction, retail trade, wholesale trade, services, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing, generation and transmission of electric power, or a health care facility, unless excluded in subdivision (b), that is both of the following:
(1)
Independently owned and operated.
(2)
Not dominant in its field
of operation.
(b)
“Small business” does not include the following professional and business activities:
(1)
A financial institution including a bank, a trust, a savings and loan association, a thrift institution, a consumer finance company, a commercial finance company, an industrial finance company, a credit union, a mortgage and investment banker, a securities broker-dealer, or an investment adviser.
(2)
An insurance company, either stock or mutual.
(3)
A mineral, oil, or gas broker.
(4)
A subdivider or developer.
(5)
A landscape architect, an architect, or a building designer.
(6)
An entity organized as a nonprofit institution.
(7)
An entertainment activity or production, including a motion picture, a stage performance, a television or radio station, or a production company.
(8)
A utility, a water company, or a power transmission company generating and transmitting more than 4.5 million kilowatt hours annually.
(9)
A petroleum producer, a natural gas producer, a refiner, or a pipeline.
(10)
A manufacturing enterprise exceeding 250 employees.
(11)
A health care facility exceeding 150 beds or one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) in annual gross receipts.
(c)
“Small business” does not include the following business activities:
(1)
Agriculture, where the annual gross receipts exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000).
(2)
General construction, where the annual gross receipts exceed nine million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000).
(3)
Special trade construction, where the annual gross receipts exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000).
(4)
Retail trade, where the annual gross receipts exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000).
(5)
Wholesale trade, where the annual gross receipts exceed nine million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000).
(6)
Services, where the annual gross receipts exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000).
(7)
Transportation and warehousing, where the annual gross receipts exceed one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000).