For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER. The Chief Procurement Officer.
CONSTRUCTION. The process of building, altering, repairing, improving, or demolishing any structure or building owned or leased by the Metro Government or other improvements of any kind to any real property owned by the Metro Government.
CONTRACTOR. Any person, firm, corporation (including handicapped nonprofit), partnership, joint venture, association, or enterprise having a contract or attempting to obtain a contract with the Metro Government.
DIRECTOR. The Executive Director of the Louisville and Jefferson County Human Relations Commission.
DISABLED OWNED BUSINESS
. A business enterprise legally constituted under the laws of the state, including but not limited to an individual, partnership, corporation (including nonprofit), joint venture, association, or cooperative, which enterprise is not an affiliate or a subsidiary of a business dominant in its field of operation and has employees identified in its own payroll records, working specifically for such entity and which entity is majority owned and controlled by a person or a combination of persons who are disabled.
DISABLED PERSON
. Any person with a physical or mental disability caused by birth defect, bodily injury, illness, or other reason or as certified by a physician, and while constituting a physical or mental impairment is not otherwise related to a person’s ability, either individually or as a participant in a partnership, corporation, joint venture, or other business enterprise, to engage in contractual relations with the Metro Government.
FEMALE OWNED BUSINESS. A business enterprise legally constituted under the laws of the state, including but not limited to an individual, partnership, corporation, joint venture, association, or cooperative, which enterprise is not an affiliate or a subsidiary of a business dominant in its field of operation and has employees identified in its own payroll records, working specifically for such entity and which entity is majority owned and controlled by a person or a combination of persons who are female and legal residents of the United States.
LGBT BUSINESS ENTERPRISE.
A business enterprise that is at least 51% owned by a lesbian, gay, bissexual, or transgender (LGBT) person or persons; or, in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51% of the stock of which is owned by one or more LGBT persons; and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of those individuals
MINORITY. Any person having ethnic origin in the black racial groups of Africa or a person who identifies as an American Descendant of Slavery; a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish cultures; a person having ethnic origin in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Middle East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands, including but not limited to Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Hawaii, and Samoa; a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North America who is an enrolled member of an Indian tribe
recognized as such by the government of the United States or Canada; or a person having origins in the Eskimo or Aleut peoples and who is recognized as such by either a tribe, tribal counsel, or a suitable authority in the community, which authority may be an educational institution, religious organization, or a federal or state agency.
MINORITY OWNED BUSINESS. A business enterprise legally constituted under the laws of the state, including but not limited to an individual, partnership, corporation, joint venture, association, or cooperative, which enterprise is not an affiliate or a subsidiary of a business dominant in its field of operation and has employees identified in its own payroll records, working specifically for such entity and which entity is majority owned and controlled by a person or a combination of persons who are minorities and legal residents of the United States.
PROCUREMENT. The buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise acquiring of any supplies, equipment, services, or construction. It also includes all functions that pertain to the obtaining of any supplies, equipment, services, or construction, including description of requirements, selection, and solicitation of sources, preparation, and award of contracts, and all phases of contracting administration.
SECOND CHANCE SUPPORTING BUSINESS. A business whose work force, on average, is composed at least 10% of people who have been convicted of a felony or Class A misdemeanor.
SUBCONTRACTOR. Any person, firm, corpora-tion (including handicapped nonprofit), partnership, joint venture, association, or enterprise who has or seeks to have a contract with a contractor to perform work required as part of a contract or agreement between the contractor and the Metro Government.
(1999 Lou. Code, § 37.65) (Lou. Ord. No. 140-1988, approved 5-20-1988; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 102-2007, approved 6-4-2007; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 31-2020, approved 3-9-2020; Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 185-2022, approved 12-7-2022)