§ 7108. Definitions

Statutory text

For purposes of this chapter—

the term “Administration” means the Small Business Administration;

the term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Small Business Administration;

the term “control” means exercising the power to make policy decisions concerning a business;

the term “Council” means the National Women’s Business Council, established under section 7105 of this title;

the term “Interagency Committee” means the Interagency Committee on Women’s Business Enterprise, established under section 7101 of this title;

the term “operate” means being actively involved in the day-to-day management of a business;

the term “women’s business enterprise” means—

a business or businesses owned by a woman or a group of women; or

the establishment, maintenance, or development of a business or businesses by a woman or a group of women; and

the term “women-owned business” means a small business which a woman or a group of women—

control and operate; and

own not less than 51 percent of the business.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1994
Women’s Business Ownership Act of 1988
Pub. L. 100–533 title IV § 408 · 102 Stat. 2689
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 7108
(Pub. L. 100–533, title IV, § 408, as added Pub. L. 103–403, title IV, § 413, Oct. 22, 1994, 108 Stat. 4197.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 100–533, title IV, § 408, as added Pub. L. 103–403, title IV, § 413, Oct. 22, 1994, 108 Stat. 4197.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 100–533, title IV, § 408, as added Pub. L. 103–403, title IV, § 413, Oct. 22, 1994, 108 Stat. 4197.)