Section 9-12-301 - Definitions(a) As used in this article: (i) "Business" means any proposed or existing enterprise which employs people within the state, provides services within the state, uses resources within the state or otherwise adds economic value to goods, services or resources within the state, and includes farm and ranch operations;(ii) "Community development organization" means a group of private citizens organized as a business entity authorized to do business in this state for the purpose of providing financing for new, existing, or expanding businesses and other economic or community development purposes throughout its community or county, and which may take equity positions and shall take security positions in its borrowers' businesses and appropriate personal guarantees from the owners thereof;(iii) "Economic development account" means the economic development enterprise account within the revolving investment fund created under article XVI, section 12 of the Wyoming constitution. The account shall consist of funds from payments as provided in W.S. 9-12-305 and other funds as provided by law;(iv) "State development organization" means a corporation organized under W.S. 17-11-101 through 17-11-120 with the authority to provide financing for new, existing or expanding businesses and to fulfill other economic or community development purposes throughout the state of Wyoming, and which may take equity positions and shall take security positions in its borrowers' businesses and appropriate personal guarantees from the owners thereof;(v) "Economic disaster" means an event occurring in Wyoming that has an economic impact with total lost revenues to impacted businesses in a twelve (12) calendar month period of at least four million dollars ($4,000,000.00) or an economic impact with total lost revenues to impacted businesses in four (4) or less counties in a twelve (12) calendar month period of at least one million dollars ($1,000,000.00). The business council may use good faith estimates of lost revenues to businesses in determining whether an event qualifies as an economic disaster. Calculation of lost revenues shall only include actual losses incurred and shall not include any future losses;(vi) "Fifty-fifty (50-50) financing program" means the provision of financing for that portion of the total project cost that is calculated by subtracting from the total project cost the sum of the business's debt. The council shall not consider a proposal in which the fifty-fifty (50-50) financing component exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the total project cost or two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000.00), whichever is less, and the business does not contribute more than fifteen percent (15%) of the total project cost;(vii) "Guarantee loan participation" means a provision of financing by the council in which the council participates with a lender that has secured a federal guaranteed loan to guarantee repayment of a loan made to a business. The maximum participation by the council shall be fifty percent (50%) of the loan or two million dollars ($2,000,000.00), whichever is less. The council shall not participate in a new guarantee loan participation under this article on and after July 1, 2022 as provided in W.S. 9-12-304(e);(viii) "Loan guarantee" means a provision of financing by the council in which the council guarantees a portion of a bank loan made to a business. The council shall not issue a loan guarantee under this article on and after July 1, 2022 as provided in W.S. 9-12-304(f);(ix) "Wyoming main street loan participation" means a provision of financing by the council in which the council participates with a lender that has made a loan to a business for building improvements to maintain the structure's historical character. The maximum participation by the council shall be seventy-five percent (75%) of the loan or one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00), whichever is less;(x) "Natural gas fueling infrastructure loan" means a loan issued by the council for the costs of the engineering, design, real property, equipment and labor necessary to install a functioning natural gas filling station to fuel motor vehicles which operate on natural gas as a transportation fuel;(xi) "Contract financing" means a provision of financing for a business to gain liquidity and in which the business assigns the proceeds of a valid contract as collateral for the financing;(xii) "Succession financing" means a provision of financing to be used to assist in the transition or succession of a business that has been in existence for not less than seven (7) years immediately before the transfer or succession to a new owner of the business.Amended by Laws 2022 , ch. 2, § 1, eff. 7/1/2022.Amended by Laws 2015 , ch. 7, § 1, eff. 7/1/2015.Amended by Laws 2013 , ch. 96, § 1, eff. 7/1/2013.