| | 3.__Base period.__"Base period" means the 3 calendar years | prior to the year in which a business is certified as a | qualified Pine Tree Development Zone business. |
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| | 4.__Commissioner.__"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of | Economic and Community Development. |
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| | 5.__Department.__"Department" means the Department of | Economic and Community Development. |
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| | 6.__Pine Tree Development Zone.__"Pine Tree Development | Zone" means a specified area within the corporate limits of a | municipality or the corporate limits of cooperating | municipalities in a multijurisdictional application that has | been designated as a Pine Tree Development Zone in accordance | with chapter 120 and approved by the commissioner. |
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| | 7.__Pine Tree Development Zone benefits.__"Pine Tree | Development Zone benefits" means: |
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| A.__Municipal tax increment financing under subchapter 1; |
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| B.__Employment tax increment financing under Title 36, | chapter 917; and |
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| C.__The Pine Tree Development Zone tax credit provided by | Title 36, section 5219-W. |
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| | 8.__Financial services.__"Financial services" means services | provided by an insurance company subject to taxation under | Title 36, chapter 357; a financial institution subject to | taxation under Title 36, chapter 819; or a mutual fund service | provider as defined in Title 36, section 5212, subsection 1, | paragraph E. |
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| | 9.__Manufacturing.__"Manufacturing" means the production of | tangible personal property intended to be sold or leased | ultimately for final use or consumption or the production of | tangible personal property pursuant to a contract with the | Federal Government or any agency thereof. |
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| | 10.__Qualified Pine Tree Development Zone business.__ | "Qualified Pine Tree Development Zone business" means any for- | profit business in the State engaged in financial services or | manufacturing or a targeted technology sector that adds | qualified Pine Tree Development Zone employees above its base | level of employment in the State and that meets the following | criteria: |
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| A.__The industrial sector in which it principally operates | is identified in the state economic development strategy | as a targeted growth sector; |
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