For the purposes of Section 690.1 et seq. of this title:

1. "Authority" means an "Enterprise District Management Authority" created pursuant to Section 690.7 of this title;

2. "Building" means a structure consisting of a foundation, walls, roof and other parts necessary to its occupation; provided however, it shall not include a structure intended to be used for residence purposes;

3. "Enterprise" means any form of business organization including, but not limited to, any partnership, sole proprietorship, corporation, limited liability company or other legally constituted business entity;

4. "Enterprise district" means at least three but not more than six contiguous enterprise zones formed for the purpose of issuing general obligation bonds;

5. "Enterprise zone" means:

a.a county which:

(1)has experienced a decrease in population during the ten-year period preceding the date as of which an establishment either enters into a commitment to locate or announces a plan to locate within an enterprise zone or expands activity within an existing enterprise zone as determined by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, or

(2)has been determined to rank in the lowest one-third (1/3) of all counties, which for purposes of this division shall be computed as the lowest twenty-five (25) counties, for per capita personal income as measured by the Bureau of Economic Analysis for the Oklahoma region for the calendar year preceding the beginning of the fiscal year for which an application is made pursuant to Section 690.3 of this title,

b.an area within or contiguous to the corporate limits of any city or town of this state which the Oklahoma Department of Commerce determines, upon application, as an area of economic distress. For purposes of this subparagraph, an area within or contiguous to the corporate limits of a city or town may be determined to be an area of economic distress if it consists of one or more census tracts located within a city or town or contiguous to a city or town. The area as defined by this subparagraph must:

(1)contain a population of persons equal to or greater than thirty percent (30%) of the total population the household income for whom is equal to or less than the poverty level as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Oklahoma region for the most recent year for which data is available prior to the date an application is made pursuant to Section 690.3 of this title, or

(2)contain a population of persons the per capita gross income for whom is fifteen percent (15%) or more below the state per capita income,

c.an area designated as a federal enterprise community as provided by Section 690.3 of this title, or

d.any enterprise zone designated by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce prior to July 1, 2000;

6. "Equipment" means machinery necessary to the construction or manufacture of products for resale;

7. "Expand" means to make expenditures to add land, buildings, machinery, equipment or other materials, except inventory, to a facility that equal at least ten percent (10%) of the market value of the facility prior to such expenditures, as determined for the purposes of local property taxation;

8. "Facility" means an enterprise's place of business in an enterprise zone, including land, buildings, machinery, equipment and other materials, except inventory used in business. Except as provided by subsection B of Section 11 of this act, “facility” does not include an establishment used primarily for making retail sales;

9. "Full-time employee" means an individual who is employed for consideration by an enterprise for at least thirty-five (35) hours a week, or who renders any other standard of service generally accepted by custom or specified by contract as full-time employment;

10. "New employee" means a full-time employee first employed by an enterprise at a facility after the designation of an enterprise zone;

11. "Position" means the position of one full-time employee performing a particular set of tasks and duties;

12. "Priority Enterprise Zones" means enterprise zones which are selected to receive additional resources or programs after meeting the criteria specified in this act;

13. "Project" means any undertaking by an enterprise to establish a facility or to improve a facility by expansion, in an enterprise zone or enterprise district;

14. "Responsible tenant" means any person, partnership, firm, company or corporation whether organized for profit or not deemed by the Authority, after proper investigation, to be financially responsible to assume all rental and all other obligations prescribed by the Authority in the leasing of any building or equipment on which the Authority has a loan outstanding; and

15. "Renovate" means to make expenditures to alter or repair a facility that equal at least fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the facility prior to such expenditures, as determined for the purposes of local property taxation.

Added by Laws 1983, c. 168, § 2, emerg. eff. June 6, 1983. Amended by Laws 1985, c. 174, § 1, emerg. eff. June 18, 1985; Laws 1986, c. 207, § 56, operative July 1, 1986; Laws 1987, c. 171, § 1, emerg. eff. June 26, 1987; Laws 1990, c. 321, § 1, emerg. eff. May 30, 1990; Laws 1991, c. 334, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Laws 1994, c. 183, § 1, emerg. eff. May 9, 1994; Laws 1998, c. 349, § 1, eff. July 1, 2000; Laws 2000, c. 339, § 7, eff. July 1, 2000; Laws 2001, c. 382, § 3, emerg. eff. June 4, 2001.

NOTE: Laws 1999, c. 382, § 5, eff. July 1, 1999, amended the effective date of Laws 1998, c. 349, § 1 from July 1, 1999 to July 1, 2000.