TITLE 32. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

CHAPTER 11. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS

Part 1. General Procedures -- Definitions -- Purposes

Purposes

32-11-103. Purposes. The purposes of this chapter are to:

(1) promote economic development by encouraging the formation of one or more BIDCOs to help meet the financing assistance and management assistance needs of businesses in the state;

(2) establish a system of licensing, regulation, and enforcement to enable a BIDCO to satisfy the eligibility requirements for participating in programs that further the purposes of the BIDCO;

(3) encourage capital sources to invest in and lend money to BIDCOs by providing for BIDCOs a system of licensing, regulation, and enforcement designed to prevent fraud, conflict of interest, and mismanagement and to promote competent management, accurate recordkeeping, and appropriate communication with shareholders; and

(4) safeguard the general reputation of BIDCOs in order to increase the confidence of prospective equity investors in and prospective debt sources for BIDCOs.

History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 411, L. 2007.