122.15 Small, Ohio-based research and development and technology transfer company definitions.
122.15 Small, Ohio-based research and development and technology transfer company definitions.
As used in sections 122.15 to 122.154 of the Revised Code:
(A) “Edison center” means a cooperative research and development facility that receives funding through the Thomas Alva Edison grant program under division (C) of section 122.33 of the Revised Code.
(B) “Ohio entity” means any corporation, limited liability company, or unincorporated business organization, including a general or limited partnership, that has its principal place of business located in this state and has at least fifty per cent of its gross assets and fifty per cent of its employees located in this state. If a corporation, limited liability company, or unincorporated business organization is a member of an affiliated group, the gross assets and the number of employees of all of the members of that affiliated group, wherever those assets and employees are located, shall be included for the purpose of determining the percentage of the corporation’s, company’s, or organization’s gross assets and employees that are located in this state.
(C) “Qualified trade or business” means any trade or business that primarily involves research and development, technology transfer, bio-technology, information technology, or the application of new technology developed through research and development or acquired through technology transfer. “Qualified trade or business” does not include any of the following:
(1) Any trade or business involving the performance of services in the field of law, engineering, architecture, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, consulting, athletics, financial services, or brokerage services, or any trade or business where the principal asset of the trade or business is the reputation or skill of one or more of its employees;
(2) Any banking, insurance, financing, leasing, rental, investing, or similar business;
(3) Any farming business, including the business of raising or harvesting trees;
(4) Any business involving the production or extraction of products of a character with respect to which a deduction is allowable under section 611, 613, or 613A of the “Internal Revenue Code of 1986,” 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 611, 613, or 613A;
(5) Any business of operating a hotel, motel, restaurant, or similar business;
(6) Any trade or business involving a hospital, a private office of a licensed health care professional, a group practice of licensed health care professionals, or a nursing home. As used in division (C)(6) of this section:
(a) “Nursing home” has the same meaning as in section 3721.50 of the Revised Code.
(b) “Hospital” has the same meaning as in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code.
(D) “Information technology” means the branch of technology devoted to the study and application of data and the processing thereof; the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation or transformation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission or reception of data, and the development or use of hardware, software, firmware, and procedures associated with this processing. Information technology includes matters concerned with the furtherance of computer science and technology, design, development, installation and implementation of information systems and applications that in turn will be licensed or sold to a specific target market. Information technology does not include the creation of a distribution method for existing products and services.
(E) “Insider” means an individual who owns, controls, or holds power to vote five per cent or more of the outstanding securities of a business. For purposes of determining whether an investor is an insider, the percentage of voting power in the Ohio entity held by a person related to the investor shall be added to the investor’s percentage of voting power in the same Ohio entity, if the investor claimed the person related to the investor as a dependent or a spouse on the investor’s federal income tax return for the previous tax year.
(F) “Related to” means being the spouse, parent, child, or sibling of an individual.
(G) “Research and development” means designing, creating, or formulating new or enhanced products, equipment, or processes, and conducting scientific or technological inquiry and experimentation in the physical sciences with the goal of increasing scientific knowledge that may reveal the bases for new or enhanced products, equipment, or processes.
(H) “State tax liability” means any tax liability incurred under division (D) of section 5707.03, section 5727.24, 5727.38, or 5747.02, or Chapter 5733. of the Revised Code.
(I) “Technology transfer” means the transfer of technology from one sector of the economy to another, including the transfer of military technology to civilian applications, civilian technology to military applications, or technology from public or private research laboratories to military or civilian applications.
(J) “Affiliated group” means two or more persons related in such a way that one of the persons owns or controls the business operations of another of those persons. In the case of a corporation issuing capital stock, one corporation owns or controls the business operations of another corporation if it owns more than fifty per cent of the other corporation’s capital stock with voting rights. In the case of a limited liability company, one person owns or controls the business operations of the company if that person’s membership interest, as defined in section 1705.01 of the Revised Code, is greater than fifty per cent of combined membership interest of all persons owning such interests in the company. In the case of an unincorporated business organization, one person owns or controls the business operations of the organization if, under the articles of organization or other instrument governing the affairs of the organization, that person has a beneficial interest in the organization’s profits, surpluses, losses, or other distributions greater than fifty per cent of the combined beneficial interests of all persons having such an interest in the organization.
(K) “Money” means United States currency, or a check, draft, or cashier’s check for United States currency, payable on demand and drawn on a bank.
(L) “EDGE business enterprise” means an Ohio entity certified by the director of administrative services as a participant in the encouraging diversity, growth, and equity program established by the governor’s executive order 2002-17T.
(M) “Distressed area” has the same meaning as in section 122.23 of the Revised Code.
Effective Date: 07-09-2003