Pennsylvania Code › Title 12 - COMMERCE, TRADE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT › Part V - Community Affairs and Development › Subpart B - Community Empowerment › Chapter 135 - NEIGHBORHOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 135.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Act
-The Neighborhood Assistance Act
						(62
						P. S. §§
												2081-2089).
Agricultural enterprise
-An enterprise
						which is engaged in business related to farming, agricultural endeavors or
						other related businesses and services supporting the development of
						agriculture, which by virtue of its size requires substantial capital and which
						by its nature and size has created or will create substantial employment
						opportunities.
Business firm
-A business entity
						authorized to do business in this Commonwealth and subject to taxes imposed
						under Article IV, VI-X or XIII-XVI of the Tax Reform Code of 1971.
Commercial enterprise
-An enterprise
						other than an agricultural, manufacturing, research and development or
						industrial enterprise which by its nature or size requires substantial capital
						and which by its nature or size has created, or offers reasonable likelihood of
						creating substantial employment opportunities. The term includes things such as
						wholesale, retail and other mercantile activities, office buildings, hotel or
						motel structures, shopping centers, department stores and facilities for
						international, national and regional headquarters, if with respect to
						redevelopment under a redevelopment proposal, there is no requirement
						concerning substantiality of capital or substantiality of creation of
						employment opportunities.
Community economic development
-The
						construction or rehabilitation of commercial or industrial buildings which will
						result in employment opportunities for low-income individuals, or the
						construction of residential housing for low- and moderate-income
						persons.
Community services
-Counseling and
						advice, emergency assistance or medical care furnished to individuals or groups
						in an impoverished area.
Crime prevention
-An activity which aids
						in the reduction of crime in an impoverished area.
Education
-Scholastic instruction or
						scholarship assistance to an individual who resides in an impoverished area
						that enables the individual to meet educational requirements for available
						employment or otherwise prepare for better life opportunities. For purposes of
						this program, the term does not include programs providing normal or routine
						educational needs-through grade school, high school, college-but may include
						demonstration, model or innovative programs which fulfill the purposes of the
						act, including literacy programs.
Enterprise zone
-A specific location with
						identifiable boundaries within an impoverished area which is designated as an
						enterprise zone by the Secretary.
Enterprise Zone Tax Credit Program
-A
						program administered by the Department under the act, which provides tax
						credits to private companies which make qualified investments to promote
						community economic development by rehabilitating, expanding or improving
						buildings or land in an enterprise zone.
Impoverished area
-An area in this
						Commonwealth which is certified as impoverished by the Department on the basis
						of Federal census studies and current indices of social and economic
						conditions.
Industrial enterprise
-An enterprise
						other than a mercantile, commercial or retail enterprise which by virtue of its
						size requires substantial capital and which by its nature and size has created
						or will create substantial employment opportunities. The term may include
						warehouse and terminal facilities and office buildings utilized as national or
						regional headquarters for the enterprise or as computer or clerical operations
						centers, if they require substantial capital and have or will create
						substantial employment opportunities.
Job training
-Instruction for individuals
						residing in impoverished areas which enables them to acquire vocational skills
						so that they may become employable or be able to seek a higher grade of
						employment.
Low-income individual
-An individual with
						an income equal to or less than 125% of the poverty income guidelines as
						published annually by the Federal Office of Management and Budget.
Manufacturing enterprise
-An enterprise
						which is engaged in the giving of new shapes, new qualities or new combinations
						to matter by the application of skill and labor.
Neighborhood assistance
-The furnishing
						of financial assistance, labor, material or technical advice to aid in the
						physical improvement of a part or all of an impoverished area.
Neighborhood organization
-A nonprofit
						organization approved by the Department which performs community services,
						offers neighborhood assistance, provides job training, education or crime
						prevention or promotes community economic development in an impoverished area,
						and which holds a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service that the
						organization is exempt from income taxation under the provisions of the
						Internal Revenue Code.
Normal course of business
-Those acts
						which are engaged in by a business firm with a view toward winning financial
						gain.
Private company
-An agricultural,
						industrial, manufacturing, commercial or research and development
						enterprise.
Qualified investments
-Investments made
						by a private company which promote community economic development under a plan
						developed in cooperation with and approved by a neighborhood organization
						operating under a plan for the administration of tax credits approved by the
						Department.
Research and development enterprise
-An
						enterprise for the discovery of new and the refinement of known substances,
						processes, products, theories and ideas. The term does not include activities
						directed primarily to the accumulation or analysis of commercial, financial or
						mercantile data.
Secretary
-The Secretary of the
						Department.