WVDOT ROADWAYS

DEFINITIONS

1. Socially And Economically Disadvantaged Individuals refers to those individuals who are citizens of the United States and who are Women, Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans or Asian-Pacific Americans and Subcontinent Asian Americans and any other minorities or individuals found to be disadvantaged by the Small Business Administration pursuant to Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act.

   Women;

   Black Americans includes persons having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa;

   Hispanic Americans includes persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American or other Spanish or Portuguese culture or origin, regardless of race;

   Native Americans includes persons who are American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, or Native Hawaiians;

   Asian-Pacific Americans includes persons whose origins are from Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Burma (Myanmar), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (Kampuchea), Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei, Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands (Republic of Palau), the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Macao, Fiji, Tonga, Kiribati, Juvalu, Nauru, Federated States of Micronesia, or Hong Kong:

   Subcontinent Asian Americans includes persons whose origins are India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives Islands, Nepal or Sri Lanka.
    

2. Disadvantaged Business Enterprise - "Disadvantaged Business" or "DBE" refers to a small business concern (1) which is at least 51 percent owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, or, in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals; and (2) whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of the socially and economically disadvantaged individuals who own it.
    
   1. The disadvantaged owners must demonstrate that they have dominant control over management and provide evidence of dominant participation in the daily affairs of the enterprise.
       
   2. The firm has not been solely established for the purposes of taking advantage of a special program which has been developed to assist disadvantaged businesses. The Division of Highways reserves the right to deem the existence of any agreements, options, rights of conversion or other restraints that may be exercised, and which if exercised, could reduce disadvantaged ownership or control to less than the requisite percentage to the grounds for rejection of the existing enterprise as a disadvantaged business enterprise.