Definitions

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. State Government
4. Department of Administrative Services
5. State Purchasing
6. Small Business Assistance
7. Definitions

For the purposes of this part, the term:

1. "Department" means the Department of Administrative Services.
2. "Georgia resident business" means any business that regularly maintains a place from which business is physically conducted in Georgia for at least one year prior to any bid or proposal to the state or a new business that is domiciled in Georgia and which regularly maintains a place from which business is physically conducted in Georgia; provided, however, that a place from which business is conducted shall not include a post office box, a leased private mailbox, site trailer, or temporary structure.
3. "Small business" means a business which is independently owned and operated. In addition, such business must have either fewer than 300 employees or less than $30 million in gross receipts per year.

(Ga. L. 1975, p. 1619, § 3; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 50; Ga. L. 2012, p. 760, § 1-3/HB 863; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1284, § 5/HB 259.)

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, and repealed effective July 1, 2015, added paragraph (2); redesignated former paragraph (2) as present paragraph (3); and, in paragraph (3), inserted "Georgia resident" in the first sentence, and in the second sentence, substituted "300" for "100" and "$30 million" for "$1 million".

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, deleted "Georgia resident" preceding "business" near the beginning of paragraph (3).

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2015, p. 1284, § 1/HB 259, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This Act shall be known and may be cited as the 'Georgia Business Act.' "

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Small Business Owned and Controlled by Socially or Economically Disadvantaged Person Under Small Business Act § 8(a) (15 U.S.C.A. § 637), 33 A.L.R. Fed. 3d 1.

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