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. As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply:
(a) "Awarding department" means any state agency, department,
governmental entity, including the California State University, or
officer or entity empowered by law to enter into contracts on behalf
of the State of California.
(b) "Department" means the Department of Transportation.
(c) "Minority," for purposes of this section, means a citizen or
lawful permanent resident of the United States who is an ethnic
person of color and who is: Black (a person having origins in any of
the Black racial groups of Africa); Hispanic (a person of Mexican,
Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish or
Portuguese culture or origin regardless of race); Native American (an
American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, or Native Hawaiian); Pacific-Asian
(a person whose origins are from Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea,
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Samoa, Guam, or the United
States Trust Territories of the Pacific or including the Northern
Marianas); Asian-Indian (a person whose origins are from India,
Pakistan, or Bangladesh); or any other group of natural persons
identified as minorities in the respective project specifications of
an awarding department or participating local agency.
(d) "Minority business enterprise" means a business concern that
meets all of the following criteria:
(1) The business is at least 51 percent owned by one or more
minorities or, in the case of any business whose stock is publicly
held, at least 51 percent of the stock is owned by one or more
minorities.
(2) A business whose management and daily operations are
controlled by one or more minorities who own the business.
(3) A business concern with its home office located in the United
States which is not a branch or subsidiary of a foreign corporation,
firm, or other business.
(e) "Women business enterprise" means a business concern that
meets all of the following criteria:
(1) The business is at least 51 percent owned by one or more women
or, in the case of any business whose stock is publicly held, at
least 51 percent of the stock is owned by one or more women.
(2) A business whose management and daily operations are
controlled by one or more women who own the business.
(3) A business concern with its home office located in the United
States which is not a branch or subsidiary of a foreign corporation,
firm, or other business.
(f) A "disadvantaged business enterprise" means a business concern
that is all of the following:
(1) A "disadvantaged business" as that term is used in Section
23.62 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(2) An individual proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or
joint venture.
(3) Organized for profit, with a place of business located in the
United States and which makes a significant contribution to the
United States economy through payment of taxes or use of American
products, materials, or labor.
(g) "Participating state or local agency" means any state or local
agency that elects to participate in the certification process
pursuant to this chapter. For purposes of this subdivision, the
following definitions apply:
(1) "State agency" means any department, division, board, bureau,
commission, or agency of the executive branch of government.
(2) "Local agency" means a county or city, whether general law or
chartered, city and county, school district, or other district.
(3) "District" means an agency of the state, formed pursuant to
general law or special act, for the local performance of governmental
or proprietary functions within limited boundaries.