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2025 California Code
Public Utilities Code - PUC
DIVISION 4 - LAWS RELATING TO UTILITY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES
CHAPTER 7 - Miscellaneous Regulations
ARTICLE 5 - Women, Minority, Disabled Veteran, and LGBT Business Enterprises
Section 8282.

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CA Pub Util Code § 8282 (2025)
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8282. For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Control” means exercising the power to make policy decisions.

(b) “Disabled veteran business enterprise” has the same meaning as defined in Section 999 of the Military and Veterans Code.

(c) “LGBT business enterprise” means a business enterprise that is at least 51-percent owned by a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender person or persons; or, in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender persons; and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of those individuals.

(d) “Minority business enterprise” means a business enterprise that is at least 51-percent owned by a minority group or groups; or, in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more minority groups, and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of those individuals. The contracting utility shall presume that minority includes African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Pacific Americans.

(e) To “operate” means to be actively involved in the day-to-day management. It is not enough to merely be an officer or director.

(f) “Renewable energy project” means a project for the development and operation of an eligible renewable energy resource meeting the requirements of the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (Article 16 (commencing with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3 of Part 1 of Division 1).

(g) “Women business enterprise” means a business enterprise that is at least 51-percent owned by a woman or women; or, in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more women; and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of those individuals.

(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 86, Sec. 271. (SB 1171) Effective January 1, 2017.)

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