2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 231A - Nevada New Markets Jobs Act › NRS 231A.155 - Qualifications for impact qualified active low-income community business.

1. For the purposes of NRS 231A.0753, an impact qualified active low-income community business is limited to those businesses which have their principal business operations in this State and:
(a) Whose primary North American Industry Classification System classification is within sector 31, 32 or 33 or sector 44 or 45; or
(b) Are businesses that have 51 percent or more of its ownership interest held by women, disabled veterans, persons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender or members of a racial or ethnic minority group.
2. A business must be considered an impact qualified active low-income community business for the duration of the impact qualified community development entity’s investment in, or loan to, the business if the entity reasonably expects, at the time it makes the investment or loan, that the business will continue to satisfy the requirements for being an impact qualified active low-income community business throughout the entire period of the investment or loan.
3. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the businesses limited by this section do not include any business that derives or projects to derive 15 percent or more of its annual revenue from the rental or sale of real estate. This exclusion does not apply to a business that is controlled by, or under common control with, another business if the second business:
(a) Does not derive or project to derive 15 percent or more of its annual revenue from the rental or sale of real estate; and
(b) Is the primary tenant of the real estate leased from the first business.
4. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, the following businesses are not impact qualified active low-income community businesses:
(a) A business that has received an abatement from taxation pursuant to NRS 274.310, 274.320, 274.330, 360.750, 360.753 or 360.754.
(b) An entity that has liability for insurance premium tax on a premium tax report filed pursuant to NRS 680B.030.
(c) A business engaged in banking or lending.
(d) A massage parlor.
(e) A bath house.
(f) A tanning salon.
(g) A country club.
(h) A business operating under a nonrestricted license for gaming issued pursuant to NRS 463.170.
(i) A liquor store.
(j) A golf course.
5. A business that has received an abatement from taxation pursuant to NRS 274.310, 274.320, 274.330, 360.750, 360.753 or 360.754 is an impact qualified active low-income community business if the business elects to waive the abatement and provides written notice of the waiver of the abatement to the Office of Economic Development not later than the due date of the first payment of any tax which would be abated if the abatement became effective. If the business provides the written notice to the Office of Economic Development:
(a) Within the period required by this subsection:
(1) Any agreement entered into by the business and the Office of Economic Development pursuant to NRS 274.310, 274.320, 274.330, 360.750, 360.753 or 360.754 is void; and
(2) The Office of Economic Development must forward a copy of the written notice to the Department and each governmental entity or official to whom a copy of the certificate of eligibility for the abatement was forwarded.
(b) After the period required by this subsection has expired, the Office of Economic Development must provide written notice to the Department and the business that the abatement has not been waived and the business is not an impact qualified active low-income community business.
(Added to NRS by 2023, 3356)