(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, an LEA may set aside an amount not to exceed ten percent (10%) of the total amount of funds allocated for the procurement of personal property and services for the purpose of entering into contracts with small businesses and minority owned businesses. The contracts shall be competitively bid among small businesses and minority owned businesses.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 49-3-322

  • Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • sex: means a person's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person's biological sex. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) For the purposes of this section, “small businesses” and “minority owned businesses” mean a business that is solely owned, or at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the outstanding stock of which is owned, by a person who is impeded from normal entry into the economic mainstream because of past practices of discrimination based on race, religion, ethnic background, sex or service in the armed forces during the Vietnam War; provided, that it is not the policy of the state to encourage employment outside the home of mothers of minor children.
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