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Subchapter
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DEPARTMENTS, DIVISIONS, AND BOARDS
(Cite as: 3 V.S.A. § 2471a)
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§ 2471a. The Vermont Business Registry
(a) The Department of Economic Development shall develop and maintain a Vermont Business
Registry. The Registry shall develop a comprehensive database of information on Vermont
businesses, including information on industrial classification, size (including employment
size and annual revenues), ownership characteristics (including type of business entity,
gender, race, nationality, incidence of low- and moderate-income ownership, and percent
of the ownership with such characteristics), location, and export data. In developing
the Registry, the Department shall affirmatively conduct outreach and request, but
not require, information from all Vermont businesses.
(b) The Department shall design the Registry so that it is easily accessible to persons
seeking information about Vermont businesses and to instrumentalities involved in
Vermont’s economic development efforts, including the Vermont Economic Development
Authority, Job Start, Vermont’s financial institutions, the regional development corporations,
and the small business development centers. Such instrumentalities may use the Registry
to ensure that they are providing a fair share of technical and financial assistance
to the Vermont businesses that comprise their target market. Such instrumentalities
may use the Registry’s demographic information to evaluate the appropriate types and
distribution of public and private economic development services to Vermont businesses. (Added 1993, No. 89, § 19.)