(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).
(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1060, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 2001.)
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