{"data":{"id":"us-ca/gov-11342.610","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"GOV § 11342.610","heading":"","body":"(a) “Small business” means a business activity in agriculture, general construction, special trade construction, retail trade, wholesale trade, services, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing, generation and transmission of electric power, or a health care facility, unless excluded in subdivision (b), that is both of the following:\n(1) Independently owned and operated.\n(2) Not dominant in its field of operation.\n(b) “Small business” does not include the following professional and business activities:\n(1) A financial institution including a bank, a trust, a savings and loan association, a thrift institution, a consumer finance company, a commercial finance company, an industrial finance company, a credit union, a mortgage and investment banker, a securities broker-dealer, or an investment adviser.\n(2) An insurance company, either stock or mutual.\n(3) A mineral, oil, or gas broker.\n(4) A subdivider or developer.\n(5) A landscape architect, an architect, or a building designer.\n(6) An entity organized as a nonprofit institution.\n(7) An entertainment activity or production, including a motion picture, a stage performance, a television or radio station, or a production company.\n(8) A utility, a water company, or a power transmission company generating and transmitting more than 4.5 million kilowatt hours annually.\n(9) A petroleum producer, a natural gas producer, a refiner, or a pipeline.\n(10) A manufacturing enterprise exceeding 250 employees.\n(11) A health care facility exceeding 150 beds or one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) in annual gross receipts.\n(c) “Small business” does not include the following business activities:\n(1) Agriculture, where the annual gross receipts exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000).\n(2) General construction, where the annual gross receipts exceed nine million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000).\n(3) Special trade construction, where the annual gross receipts exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000).\n(4) Retail trade, where the annual gross receipts exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000).\n(5) Wholesale trade, where the annual gross receipts exceed nine million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000).\n(6) Services, where the annual gross receipts exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000).\n(7) Transportation and warehousing, where the annual gross receipts exceed one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000).","path":["Government Code - GOV","TITLE 2. GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA [8000. - 22980.]","DIVISION 3. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT [11000. - 15990.3.]","PART 1. STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES [11000. - 11908.]","CHAPTER 3.5. Administrative Regulations and Rulemaking [11340. - 11361.]","ARTICLE 2. Definitions [11342.510. - 11342.610.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"9200cc9bc94a64b27b1b06a1c51b74aa549adf5511916bba9d2a1b4ccd128fa1","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/gov-11342.600","next":"us-ca/gov-11343"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}