justicedao/ipfs_state_laws huggingface dataset:
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ORS 285a.200. Gifts; federal aid; fees. (1) The Oregon Business Development Department may accept gifts of money or other property from any public or private agency or person made for the purpose of assisting the department to carry out any programs or laws that the department is charged with administering. Moneys so received shall be paid into an appropriate fund or account. Property so received shall be used for the purposes for which that property is given. (2) The department may apply for, receive from the United States or any of its agencies, and disburse or supervise the disbursement of federal aid for the purposes for which the aid is provided. The department may also disburse or supervise the disbursement of funds provided by the State of Oregon for expenditure as a condition of receiving the federal aid. (3) The department may assess and charge fees: (a) For loans made from any of its funds or accounts; and (b) For program benefits provided and administrative expenses incurred by the department in the administration of the process developed in accordance with ORS 284.565 to certify sites that are ready for industrial or traded sector development.
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ORS 285a.203. [Formerly 285.090; repealed by 2007 c.804 86]
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ORS 285a.206. Department to prepare financial statements; contents; reporting period. (1) In each calendar year, the Oregon Business Development Department shall prepare, in accordance with generally accepted governmental accounting principles, a financial statement for individual funding programs as required by law. (2) The financial statements required by this section shall record and summarize all the financial transactions during the reporting period that involved moneys credited to a fund or account and shall describe the financial condition of the fund or an account at the end of the reporting period. The reporting period for financial statements required by this section shall be the fiscal year commencing on July 1 and ending on June 30. (3) The financial statements required by this section shall be in a form prescribed by the Secretary of State. (4) Each financial statement required by this section shall describe the financial transactions and condition of a single fund and shall be submitted to the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives not later than December 31 in each year.
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ORS 285a.209. [Formerly 285.100; repealed by 2007 c.804 86]
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ORS 285a.212. [Formerly 285.105; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.215. [Formerly 285.110; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.218. [Formerly 285.115; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.221. [Formerly 285.117; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.224. Business Retention Fund; purpose; administration; uses; rules. (1) It is the purpose of the Business Retention Fund to assist businesses, communities and workers affected by significant business transitions, economic dislocation or the possibility of economic dislocations to evaluate and implement alternative business or community opportunities and to focus on the long term survivability of businesses. (2) The Business Retention Fund is created separate and distinct from the General Fund. The fund shall be administered by the Oregon Business Development Department. The fund may be credited with contributions of moneys from public and private sources and with repayments as provided in this section. Interest earned by the fund shall be credited to the fund. (3)(a) The department may allocate moneys in the fund for the following purposes: (A) Business retention service; (B) Employee ownership; (C) Community response to plant closures or community distress, or both; and (D) Feasibility studies, transition plans or restructuring plans. (b) The department shall establish the maximum percentage of the fund that may be allocated for the purposes described in paragraph (a) of this subsection and a minimum match requirement, if any. (4) The department may grant, expend or loan moneys in the fund for financial assistance, feasibility studies, transition plans, restructuring plans, technical assistance and management consulting services for business firms in transition, troubled firms that may close without assistance, for troubled firms that are experiencing major layoffs or firms that have actually closed or announced closure, and for communities that are experiencing distress due to the business closures, under such terms and conditions as the department may determine. (5) The department shall provide that firms receiving assistance repay to the Business Retention Fund any assistance provided under subsection (4) of this section. When the department sets repayment terms for a firm receiving assistance, the department shall consider the financial ability of the firm to repay assistance. (6) In providing assistance from the Business Retention Fund, the department may give preference to Oregons rural and distressed areas and its traditional agriculture, forestry and fishing industries. The department may also give priority to areas including but not limited to emerging industries and industry clusters with high potential for job retention and creation and market growth, as well as traded sector firms competing in markets for which regional, national or international competition exists. (7) The department shall adopt by rule specific criteria for expenditure of moneys from the Business Retention Fund.
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ORS 285a.227. Oregon Business, Innovation and Trade Fund; uses; sources; rules. (1) There is created within the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund, the Oregon Business, Innovation and Trade Fund. Interest earned by the Oregon Business, Innovation and Trade Fund shall be credited to the fund. The moneys in the Oregon Business, Innovation and Trade Fund are continuously appropriated to the Oregon Business Development Department for the purpose of financing programs and projects that promote business and economic development throughout the state. The fund shall consist of all moneys credited to the fund, including moneys from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund, federal funds collected or received, and fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, collected or received by the department, and all interest earnings that accrue to the fund. (2) The Oregon Business, Innovation and Trade Fund is created to provide a flexible funding source for financing those programs and projects that are determined by the Oregon Business Development Commission under the policies, criteria and standards set forth in ORS 285A.020, 285A.045 and 285A.055 to further business and economic development. The Oregon Business Development Department may finance programs and projects determined by the commission to further business and economic development by making grants or loans using moneys in the fund. Notwithstanding ORS 279A.140, the department may enter into contracts as necessary or appropriate to implement programs and projects determined by the commission to further business and economic development using moneys in the fund. (3) The Oregon Business Development Department, by rule, shall adopt standards, objectives and criteria for use of the moneys in the Oregon Business, Innovation and Trade Fund and for the adjustment of allocations to programs and projects that receive funding from the fund. [1997 c.620 1; 2001 c.883 5; 2003 c.794 236; 2007 c.804 10; 2009 c.830 28] Note:
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ORS 285a.230. University Innovation Research Fund; grants. The University Innovation Research Fund is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the University Innovation Research Fund must be credited to the fund. The fund consists of all moneys appropriated, allocated, deposited or transferred to the fund by the Legislative Assembly or otherwise and any donations or grants received for the purpose of the fund. Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the Oregon Business Development Department to make grants to public universities listed in ORS 352.002 or grants to the Oregon Health and Science University for the purpose of matching competitive federal research grant awards. [2019 c.643 21] Note:
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ORS 285a.240. Legislative findings. The Legislative Assembly finds that: (1) There is a new emerging global economy in which countries and regions located in specific areas of the world are forging new cooperative arrangements. (2) These new cooperative arrangements are increasing the competitiveness of the participating countries and regions, thus increasing the economic benefits and the overall quality of life for the citizens of the individual countries and regions. (3) The Pacific Northwest states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia are in a strategic position to act together, as a region, thus increasing the overall competitiveness of the individual states and provinces that will provide substantial economic benefits for all of their citizens. [Formerly 285.693]
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ORS 285a.258. [Formerly 285.133; renumbered 284.104 in 2007]
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ORS 285a.269. [2003 c.818 18,18a; renumbered 284.118 in 2007]
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ORS 285a.270. [Formerly 285.143; repealed by 2003 c.818 31]
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ORS 285a.285. [Formerly 285.160; repealed by 2003 c.818 31]
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ORS 285a.288. [Formerly 285.163; 2003 c.818 27; renumbered 284.146 in 2007] TITLE I BANK FUND
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ORS 285a.300. that they may develop and construct community development projects and may construct, improve and repair facilities necessary for orderly community development. [Formerly 285.683]
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ORS 285a.303. Findings; purpose. (1) The Legislative Assembly finds that: (a) Local government is experiencing increasing difficulty in obtaining necessary financing for eligible community development projects, such as public works projects, causing project delays and significant increased costs to property owners and municipalities. (b) The improvement, expansion and new construction of eligible community development projects contributes to orderly economic growth by providing the framework necessary to attract industry to this state and to promote increased employment opportunities and other community improvements which are for the benefit of the people of Oregon. (c) It is important, therefore, that state agencies authorized to distribute state or federal funds for such improvements be able to provide programs and allocate moneys that will provide the greatest impetus to community development opportunities in Oregon. (2) Since municipalities in this state often suffer from a lack of available financing for eligible community development projects, it is the purpose of ORS
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ORS 285a.306. Title I Bank Fund; investment; sources; administration; rules and policies; costs. (1) There is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund, the Title I Bank Fund. All moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the Oregon Business Development Department for the Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority to provide financing for community development projects. Interest earned by the Title I Bank Fund shall be credited to the fund. (2) Moneys in the Title I Bank Fund, with the approval of the State Treasurer, may be invested as provided by ORS 293.701 to 293.857, and the earnings from such investments and other program income shall be credited to the Title I Bank Fund. (3) The Title I Bank Fund shall consist of: (a) Moneys appropriated to the fund by the Legislative Assembly. (b) Repayment of loans made by cities and counties with grants from the Oregon Community Development Block Grant Program, including interest earnings. (4) The Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority shall administer the fund. (5) The department shall adopt rules and policies for the administration of the fund. (6) The authority may charge program administrative costs to the fund to pay for administrative expenses incurred to the authority for processing applications and investigating community development projects.
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ORS 285a.309. Use of funds. All payments, receipts and interest from outstanding indebtedness shall be retained and accumulated in the Title I Bank Fund and used for the purposes specified in ORS 285A.303.
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ORS 285a.312. Application of federal statutes. All federal overlay statutes associated with moneys received from the federal Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant Program for Small Cities shall continue to apply to the use of those moneys in the Title I Bank Fund received from sources described in ORS 285A.306 (3)(b). [Formerly 285.690; 1999 c.509 15; 2005 c.22 203] FOREIGN TRADE ZONES
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ORS 285a.325. Foreign trade zones; operators of zones. (1) Any port organized under the laws of this state, any municipal corporation in this state or any dock commission of any city of this state may apply to the United States for permission and may establish, operate and maintain foreign trade zones within or without their boundaries. (2) A private for-profit corporation may also establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade zone in this state when the corporation is: (a) Incorporated and organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of establishing, operating and maintaining a foreign trade zone; and (b) Authorized to establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade zone under a special Act of the Legislative Assembly that specifically names and grants such authority to the corporation. [Formerly 307.850] Note:
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ORS 285a.328. Specific corporation authorized to maintain foreign trade zone. Klamath International Trade & Transportation Services (KITTS), an Oregon corporation, is authorized by ORS 285A.325 and 285A.328 to establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade zone in this state. [1997 c.499 2] Note:
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ORS 285a.340. Legislative findings; declaration of policy. The Legislative Assembly declares that it is the purpose of ORS 285A.340 to 285A.349: (1) To assist the development of small businesses, with special emphasis on increasing the percentage of businesses owned by women and members of minority groups; (2) To encourage competition among publicly supported small business service providers in order to supply the most effective, highest quality services to the greatest number of businesses for the most significant long term outcomes; (3) To foster cooperation among state agencies, state-supported organizations and private sector entities that provide services to small businesses in order to best meet the needs of small business clients; (4) To encourage and support private sector organizations, to serve the needs of the small businesses in this state and, to the maximum extent feasible, to coordinate the small business programs of this state; and (5) To provide support for organizations that encourage and assist the development and expansion of small businesses in Oregon. [Formerly 285.121; 1999 c.509 16; 2003 c.773 5; 2007 c.804 13] Note:
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ORS 285a.343. [Formerly 285.123; repealed by 2003 c.773 56]
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ORS 285a.346. Purchases of assistance services for small businesses; grants; requirements for providers of services; waiver of federal requirements. (1)(a) The Oregon Business Development Department may purchase business assistance services from public or private organizations for delivery to small businesses in this state or may provide grants to public or private organizations to support, aid, stimulate or otherwise affect the delivery of business assistance services to small businesses in this state. (b) For the purposes of ORS 285A.340 to 285A.349, business assistance services includes: (A) Basic business training, including elements of accounting, personnel management, marketing and tax compliance. (B) Counseling on business needs and problems, including but not limited to specialized assistance with intellectual property rights, federal research grants, international markets, lean manufacturing and electronic commerce. (C) Assistance in securing state and federal procurement contracts. (D) Assistance in securing Oregon suppliers for goods and services. (2) An organization or association that receives state moneys for the purpose of providing business assistance services to small businesses shall comply, to the greatest extent feasible, with the state policies established under ORS
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ORS 285a.349. Evaluation of effectiveness of assistance. The Oregon Business Development Department shall evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery of business assistance services to small businesses. [Formerly 285.127; 2003 c.773 7; 2007 c.804 15; 2009 c.830 31] Note: See note under
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ORS 285a.360. [Formerly 285.175; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.363. [Formerly 285.176; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.366. [Formerly 285.178; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.369. [Formerly 285.179; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.380. [Formerly 285.250; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.383. [Formerly 285.253; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.386. [Formerly 285.255; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.389. [Formerly 285.257; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.392. [Formerly 285.260; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.415. [Formerly 285.170; repealed by 1999 c.509 61]
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ORS 285a.418. [Formerly 285.173; repealed by 1999 c.509 61] BEGINNING AND EXPANDING FARMER LOAN PROGRAM
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ORS 285a.422. Definitions for ORS 285A.420 to 285A.435. As used in ORS 285A.420 to
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ORS 285a.425. Beginning and Expanding Farmer Loan Program; eligibility and qualifications; rules; fees; authority to enter into contracts and agreements. (1) The Oregon Business Development Department, in consultation with the State Department of Agriculture and potential lenders, shall create the Beginning and Expanding Farmer Loan Program to facilitate the making of loans to beginning farmers to finance the acquisition of an approved agricultural project. (2) Before revenue bonds may be issued for the program, an agricultural project must be determined to be eligible for a loan under ORS 285A.420 to 285A.435 and the beginning farmer must be qualified by the lender to receive the loan. (3) The Oregon Business Development Department shall adopt rules for the operation of the program, to define terms and to establish an application process and requirements, criteria and eligibility standards for beginning farmers and lenders to participate in the program. The department may approve a loan only if all of the following are satisfied: (a) The lender is approved to participate in the program. (b) The beginning farmer is a resident of this state. (c) The agricultural project that is the subject of the loan is located, or will be used, in this state. (d) The lender acknowledges that the loan to the beginning farmer is secured only by the eligible revenue of an eligible agricultural project and not by revenue or assets of the State of Oregon. (e) The beginning farmer will materially and substantially participate in the farming for which the loan is sought. (f) The eligible agricultural project will be used for farming only by the beginning farmer or by the beginning farmer and the beginning farmers family. (g) The beginning farmer and the lender have complied with any other requirement, criterion or standard prescribed by the department by rule. (4)(a) The department may charge fees to lenders and beginning farmers as necessary: (A) To administer the program; and (B) To cover the cost of procurement of bond counsel, State Treasurer fees, department issuance fees and trustee fees. (b) Lenders may charge fees and points as agreed to by the beginning farmer and the lender and as approved by the department. (5) The lender and the beginning farmer shall agree to the terms of the loan, including interest rate and length of loan. The lender is responsible for making an independent credit evaluation of the beginning farmer or the farming enterprise for which the loan is sought. (6) The Oregon Business Development Department may enter into contracts and agreements as necessary and appropriate to implement and manage the program. [2013 c.742 3] Note: See note under
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ORS 285a.430. Revenue bonds to finance agricultural projects. (1) At the request of the Oregon Business Development Department, the State Treasurer may from time to time issue revenue bonds to: (a) Finance agricultural projects determined eligible for financing under ORS