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title: "15 U.S.C. § 7108"
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title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
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citation: "15 U.S.C. § 7108"
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# 15 U.S.C. § 7108 - Definitions

## Text

For purposes of this chapter—

(1) the term “Administration” means the Small Business Administration;

(2) the term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Small Business Administration;

(3) the term “control” means exercising the power to make policy decisions concerning a business;

(4) the term “Council” means the National Women’s Business Council, established under section 7105 of this title;

(5) the term “Interagency Committee” means the Interagency Committee on Women’s Business Enterprise, established under section 7101 of this title;

(6) the term “operate” means being actively involved in the day-to-day management of a business;

(7) the term “women’s business enterprise” means—

(A) a business or businesses owned by a woman or a group of women; or

(B) the establishment, maintenance, or development of a business or businesses by a woman or a group of women; and

(8) the term “women-owned business” means a small business which a woman or a group of women—

(A) control and operate; and

(B) own not less than 51 percent of the business.

(Pub. L. 100–533, title IV, § 408, as added Pub. L. 103–403, title IV, § 413, Oct. 22, 1994, 108 Stat. 4197.)