Ch. 411                                   LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 411

      (Senate Bill 941)

AN ACT concerning

Minority Businesses - Purchases

FOR the purpose of prohibiting a person from willfully;
falsifying, concealing, or covering up or making false,
fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations
concerning Minority Business Enterprise matters administered
by the Department of Transportation; providing for certain
subpoena powers and certain procedures; and generally
relating to purchases from minority businesses by the
Department of Transportation.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - State Finance and Procurement

Section 11-148

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

(As enacted by Chapter 840 of the Acts

of the General Assembly of 1986)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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11-148.

(a) (1) In this section the following words have the
meanings indicated.

(2)   "Designated Department" means the University of
Maryland, the Departments of General Services and Transportation,
the Maryland Food Authority, the Maryland Stadium Authority, or
the Interagency Committee on Public School Construction, or, for
procurements specified under Title 3, Subtitle 4 of this article,
the Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning.

(3)   "Minority business enterprise" means any legal
entity, other than a joint venture, organized to engage in
commercial transactions which is at least 51 percent owned and
controlled by one or more minority individuals, or a nonprofit
entity organized to promote the interests of the physically or
mentally; disabled.

(4)   "Minority individual" means a member of a
socially or economically disadvantaged minority group, which for

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