{"data":{"id":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-72-1709","jurisdiction":"us-ne","citation":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-1709","heading":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-1709","body":"(1) A community board shall evaluate applicants who want to start or expand a small business and to locate within the business incubation center based upon, but not limited to, all of the following factors:\n\n(a) The likelihood that the business will be profitable;\n\n(b) Whether the product that would be manufactured or the service that would be rendered would be new to the state or the community;\n\n(c) The potential marketability of the product or service;\n\n(d) The likelihood that the business will generate a significant number of new jobs and not eliminate existing jobs;\n\n(e) The likelihood that new jobs generated will be filled by persons who presently are unemployed or whose skills are underemployed; and\n\n(f) The likelihood that the business will not be started if the applicant is not accepted into the business incubation center.\n\n(2) A community board shall forward to each applicant whose application it rejects notice of its rejection together with the reasons for the rejection.\n\n(3) A community board shall forward to each applicant it favorably evaluates notification of its decision and of whether or not space exists to accept the applicant.","path":["NE Code","Chapter 72"],"source_url":"https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=72-1709","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:21Z","sha256":"8b53fe182c5a75c1427a73ca41f931d952f068e705964cbe8d3482174e402964","source_id":"us-ne","stale":false,"prev":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-72-1708","next":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-72-1710"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}