Business operations means engaging in commerce in any form, including by acquiring, developing, maintaining, owning, selling, possessing, leasing, or operating equipment, facilities, personnel, products, services, personal property, real property, or any other apparatus of business or commerce.
Restricted business operations means business operations in Sudan that include power production activities, mineral extraction activities, oil-related activities, or the production of military equipment, as those terms are defined in the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-174). Restricted business operations do not include business operations that the person (as that term is defined in Section 2 of the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007) conducting the business can demonstrate—
Active business operations means all business operations that are not inactive business operations.
Principal business operations means the operations of a business are located at the place or places where at least 60% of its employees work or where employees that are paid at least 60% of its payroll work. A business that has agreed to relocate or hire new employees using the proceeds of a growth investment to establish its principal business operations in a qualified rural local governmental unit in the state shall be considered to have its principal business operations in this new location provided it satisfies this definition within 180 days after receiving the growth investment, unless the fund agrees to a later date. A business located in this state that has agreed to hire new employees in a qualified rural local governmental unit using the proceeds of a growth investment to establish its principal business operations in that qualified rural local governmental unit shall be considered to have its principal business operations in a qualified rural local governmental unit provided it hires the necessary employees within 180 days after receiving the growth investment or a later date, if agreed to by the fund.
Inactive business operations means the mere continued holding or renewal of rights to property previously operated for the purpose of generating revenues but not presently deployed for such purpose.