As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Board" means the Iowa economic development board.
2. "Department" means the Iowa department of economic development.
3. "Director" means the director of the department or the director's designee.
4. "Small business" means any enterprise which is located in this state, which is operated for profit and under a single management, and which has either fewer than twenty employees or an annual gross income of less than three million dollars computed as the average of the three preceding fiscal years. This definition does not apply to any program or activity for which a definition for small business is provided for the program or activity by federal law or regulation or other state law.
5. a. "Targeted small business" means a small business which is fifty-one percent or more owned, operated, and actively managed by one or more women, minority persons, or persons with a disability provided the business meets all of the following requirements:
b. As used in this subsection:
(1) "Disability" means, with respect to an individual, a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual, a record of physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual, or being regarded as an individual with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual. "Disability" does not include any of the following:
(a) Homosexuality or bisexuality.
(b) Transvestitism, transsexualism, pedophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments, or other sexual behavior disorders.
(c) Compulsive gambling, kleptomania, or pyromania.
(d) Psychoactive substance abuse disorders resulting from current illegal use of drugs.
(2) "Major life activity" includes functions such as caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, or working.
(3) "Minority person" means an individual who is a Black, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, American Indian, or Alaskan native American.
(1) Is located in this state.
(2) Is operated for profit.
(3) Has an annual gross income of less than three million dollars computed as an average of the three preceding fiscal years.
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 802; 90 Acts, ch 1156, §2; 91 Acts, ch 103, §1; 94 Acts, ch 1076, § 2
Referred to in § 12.43, 15.247, 73.15
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