Connecticut General Statutes Title 8. Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development § 8-163. Definitions

(a) “Redevelopment area” means those areas of this state designated as redevelopment areas by the Secretary of Commerce acting pursuant to Public Law 136 of the 89th Congress of the United States;

(b) “Municipality” means any town, city or borough of this state;

(c) The “Public Works and Economic Development Act”  1 means Public Law 136 of the 89th Congress of the United States, as amended;

(d) “Small Business Investment Act”  2 means Public Law 699 of the 85th Congress of the United States, as amended;

(e) “Overall economic development program” means the overall program for the economic development of an area designated as a “redevelopment area” in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works and Economic Development Act and all administrative regulations and determinations promulgated thereto;

(f) “Regional council of governments” means the regional council of governments created under section 4-124j;

(g) “Municipal economic development commissions” and “regional economic development commissions” means those commissions established under sections 7-136 and 7-137;

(h) “Small business” means a concern which is independently owned and operated and which is not dominant in its field of operations, as provided in the Small Business Investment Act;

(i) “State and local development companies” means those enterprises operated under state or local law with the authority to promote and assist the growth and development of business concerns in the areas covered by their operations, as defined in Sections 501 and 502 of the Small Business Investment Act;  3

(j) “Industrial or business project” means any and all projects which qualify for assistance under the provisions of either the Public Works and Economic Development Act or the Small Business Investment Act, or both;

(k) “Nonfederal share” means that portion of the excess of the net cost of the project, as determined by the Department of Economic and Community Development, over either the federal loan or grant-in-aid thereof, or the federal guaranteed loan as provided for in either the Public Works and Economic Development Act or the Small Business Investment Act, or both; and

(l) “Small business development center” means that local agency or organization as defined or designated by the Small Business Administration or other appropriate federal agency or, in the absence of such federal designation, that agency or organization designated by the legislative body of the municipality and approved by the Department of Economic and Community Development, which has as its function in whole or in part the developing of local entrepreneurship through rendering of consultive, technical, educational and financial assistance and will serve to seek qualified applicants for loans and other assistance from federal, state, local, public and private agencies in furtherance of the objective of establishing and stimulating the growth of small business enterprises particularly as related to the low-income groups within the community. Such center may be a municipal or regional economic development commission, a municipal bureau or agency, a local or regional development corporation or an appropriate private agency.