Government Code section 11342.610
(a)
“Small business” means a business activity in agriculture, general construction, special trade construction, retail trade, wholesale trade, services, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing, generation and transmission of electric power, or a health care facility, unless excluded in subdivision (b), that is both of the following:(1)
Independently owned and operated.(2)
Not dominant in its field of operation.(b)
“Small business” does not include the following professional and business activities:(1)
A financial institution including a bank, a trust, a savings and loan association, a thrift institution, a consumer finance company, a commercial finance company, an industrial finance company, a credit union, a mortgage and investment banker, a securities broker-dealer, or an investment adviser.(2)
An insurance company, either stock or mutual.(3)
A mineral, oil, or gas broker.(4)
A subdivider or developer.(5)
A landscape architect, an architect, or a building designer.(6)
An entity organized as a nonprofit institution.(7)
An entertainment activity or production, including a motion picture, a stage performance, a television or radio station, or a production company.(8)
A utility, a water company, or a power transmission company generating and transmitting more than 4.5 million kilowatt hours annually.(9)
A petroleum producer, a natural gas producer, a refiner, or a pipeline.(10)
A manufacturing enterprise exceeding 250 employees.(11)
A health care facility exceeding 150 beds or one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) in annual gross receipts.(c)
“Small business” does not include the following business activities:(1)
Agriculture, where the annual gross receipts exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000).(2)
General construction, where the annual gross receipts exceed nine million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000).(3)
Special trade construction, where the annual gross receipts exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000).(4)
Retail trade, where the annual gross receipts exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000).(5)
Wholesale trade, where the annual gross receipts exceed nine million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000).(6)
Services, where the annual gross receipts exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000).(7)
Transportation and warehousing, where the annual gross receipts exceed one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000).
Source:
Section 11342.610, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=11342.610. (accessed May 9, 2025).