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<br /> Chapter 4 Options
<br /> for a Small Business, Multiple Sites, or a Complex Site
<br /> 4.1 Definition of "Small Business" O
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<br /> The definition of a "small business" used by SB 14 is taken from section 11342.610 of the 0'
<br /> California Government Code which states:
<br /> A. "Small business" means a business activity in agriculture,general construction,
<br /> special trade construction, retail trade, wholesale trade, services, transportation and
<br /> warehousing, manufacturing,generation and transmission of electric power, or a
<br /> health care facility, unless excluded in subdivision B, that is both of the following:
<br /> 1. Independently owned and operated.
<br /> 2. Not dominant in its field of operation.
<br /> B. "Small business" does not include the following professional and business activities:
<br /> 1. A financial institution including a bank, a trust, a savings and loan association, a
<br /> thrift institution, a consumer finance company, a commercial finance company,
<br /> an industrial finance company, a credit union, a mortgage and investment banker,
<br /> a securities broker-dealer, or an investment adviser.
<br /> 2. An insurance company, either stock or mutual.
<br /> 3. A mineral, oil, or gas broker.
<br /> 4. A subdivider or developer.
<br /> 5. A landscape architect, an architect, or a building designer.
<br /> 6. An entity organized as a nonprofit institution.
<br /> 7. An entertainment activity or production, including a motion picture, a stage
<br /> performance, a television or radio station, or a production company.
<br /> 8. A utility, a water company, or a power transmission company generating and
<br /> transmitting more than 4.5 million kilowatt hours annually.
<br /> 9. A petroleum producer, a natural gas producer, a refiner, or a pipeline.
<br /> 10. A manufacturing enterprise exceeding 250 employees.
<br /> 11. A health care facility exceeding 150 beds or one million five hundred thousand
<br /> dollars ($1,500,000) in annual gross receipts.
<br /> C. "Small business" does not include the following business activities:
<br /> 1. Agriculture, where the annual gross receipts exceed one million dollars
<br /> ($110001000).
<br /> 2. General construction, where the annual gross receipts exceed nine million five
<br /> hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000).
<br /> 3. Special trade construction, where the annual gross receipts exceed five million
<br /> dollars ($5,000,000).
<br /> 4. Retail trade, where the annual gross receipts exceed two million dollars
<br /> ($2,000,000).
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