Section 9-305 - Minority business enterprises. - Maryland Statutes

§ 9-305. Minority business enterprises.
 

(a)  Scope of section.- This section applies to the following minority business enterprises: 

(1) a publicly owned business if 1 or more minority persons own at least 51% of the stock of the business; or 

(2) any other business if 1 or more minority persons own at least 50% of the business. 

(b)  Duties of Special Secretary.- Subject to the limitations of any law that governs the activities of other units of the Executive Branch of the State government, the Special Secretary shall: 

(1) carry out each State or federal program that is created to promote the growth of or participation in minority business enterprises; 

(2) promote and coordinate the plans, programs, and operations of the State government that promote or otherwise affect the establishment, preservation, and strengthening of minority business enterprises; 

(3) promote activities and the use of the resources of the State government, local governments, and private entities for the growth of minority business enterprises; 

(4) coordinate the effort of private entities and public agencies to develop minority business enterprises; 

(5) establish a system to develop, collect, summarize, and give out information that would help a person to: 

(i) establish a minority business enterprise; 

(ii) operate a minority business enterprise successfully; or 

(iii) promote the establishment and successful operation of minority business enterprises; and 

(6) subject to the limitations of law and the availability of funds: 

(i) provide technical and managerial assistance to minority business enterprises; 

(ii) provide the managerial and organizational framework for private entities and units of the State government to plan and carry out joint undertakings that relate to minority business enterprises; and 

(iii) pay, wholly or partly, the costs of a pilot or demonstration project that is intended to overcome the special problems of minority business enterprises. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 41, § 483; 1984, ch. 284, § 1; 1986, ch. 719; 2004, ch. 74.]