Okla. Stat. tit. 62, § 62-841

As used in the Oklahoma Local Development and Enterprise Zone

Incentive Leverage Act:

1. “Enterprise” means any form of business organization

including, but not limited to, any partnership, sole proprietorship,

corporation, limited liability company or other legally constituted

business entity;

2. “Enterprise zone” means an area as defined pursuant to

paragraph 5 of Section 690.2 of this title;

3. “Estimated direct state benefits” means the total

incremental state tax revenues new to the state estimated by the

Oklahoma Department of Commerce to accrue to the state from new

investments and new employment during the period of apportionment of

local sales taxes as a result of the project and/or projects

described in the related project plan. For purposes of projecting

state benefits for a military growth impact project, the military

growth impacts shall be used in lieu of the project and/or projects

described in the related project plan. In projecting such benefits,

the Oklahoma Department of Commerce shall consider, if practicable,

whether or not the project plan involves an enterprise:

a. relocating from within the state,

b. subject to or in the process of recruitment by two or

more governmental entities within the state, or

c. which will be in direct competition with an existing

enterprise located in the state;

4. “Estimated direct state costs” means the costs projected by

the Oklahoma Department of Commerce to be incurred by the state

during the period of apportionment of local sales taxes, as a result

of the project and/or projects described in the related project

plan. For purposes of projecting state costs for a military growth

impact project, the military growth impacts shall be used in lieu of

the project and/or projects described in the related project plan;

5. “Estimated net direct state benefits” means the estimated

direct state benefits less the estimated direct state costs;

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6. “Facility” means the definition contained in paragraph 8 of

Section 690.2 of this title;

7. “Governing body” means the governing board of a local

governmental entity in the case of a single incentive district or

increment district when the boundaries of the district are

coextensive with or contained within the jurisdiction of any such

single local governmental entity or the governing boards of a

combination of counties, cities, or towns forming an incentive

district or an increment district pursuant to the provisions of the

Local Development Act;

8. “Incentive district” means an area created pursuant to the

provisions of the Local Development Act, including Section 856 of

this title;

9. “Increment district” means an area created pursuant to the

provisions of the Local Development Act;

10. “Local governmental entity” means a county, city or town

forming an incentive district or an increment district pursuant to

the provisions of the Local Development Act;

11. “Local sales taxes” means amounts payable to or for the

benefit of a local governmental entity calculated as a percentage,

which, except on transient lodgings, shall not exceed four and one-

half percent (4.5%) of gross sales whether imposed by ordinance,

resolution, covenant, or agreement;

12. “Major tourism destination project” means a project which:

a. meets the definition of a “tourism attraction” as set

forth in subparagraph a of paragraph 10 of Section

2357.36 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes, subject

only to the restrictions of divisions (1), (3) and (6)

of subparagraph b of paragraph 10 of Section 2357.36

of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes,

b. is projected to meet the following qualifications

within three (3) years of the date of substantial

completion of the project based upon the findings of

the Oklahoma Department of Commerce:

(1) at least Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00)

in capital investment,
ons of divisions (1), (3) and (6)

of subparagraph b of paragraph 10 of Section 2357.36

of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes,

b. is projected to meet the following qualifications

within three (3) years of the date of substantial

completion of the project based upon the findings of

the Oklahoma Department of Commerce:

(1) at least Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00)

in capital investment,

(2) at least Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00)

in projected annual gross sales revenues or at

least Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00) in

annual gross sales revenues to out-of-state

visitors,

(3) a number of out-of-state visitors of at least:

(a) twenty percent (20%) of the number of total

visitors, or

(b) twenty thousand (20,000) visitors per year,

and

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(4) a number of visitors traveling at least one

hundred (100) miles of at least:

(a) thirty percent (30%) of the number of total

visitors, or

(b) twenty-five thousand (25,000) visitors per

year, or

c. is a lake resort project, containing a hotel, a

conference center, and an eighteen-hole golf course,

located within twenty-five (25) linear miles of the

state boundary on a lake containing at least forty-

five thousand (45,000) surface acres of water, that is

estimated to generate at least Fifty Million Dollars

($50,000,000.00) in capital investment;

13. “Military growth impacts” means the increases in

investment, employment, and residents resulting from military growth

activities;

14. “Military growth impact community” means a city, town, or

county experiencing and reasonably projected to experience a

population growth of at least one thousand (1,000) persons and

increased payrolls of at least Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00)

within a five-year period directly resulting from federal military

base activities;

15. “Military growth impact project” means a project pursuant

to the Local Development Act which the governing body determines to

be in support of the needs and quality of life issues resulting from

the military growth impacts;

16. “Net benefit rate” means the estimated net direct state

benefits computed as a percentage of gross taxable sales derived

from the project during the period of apportionment of local sales

taxes by the local governmental entity;

17. “Public entity” means those entities described in the Local

Development Act;

18. “Retail purposes” means the objectives of selling tangible

personal property, other than art, on the physical premises of an

establishment. Retail purposes shall not mean a hotel, motel,

entertainment facility, museum, cultural facility, art gallery,

restaurant supporting another establishment excluded herein,

military growth impact project located within a military growth

impact community, or a major tourism destination project;

19. “State local enterprise matching payment” means the payment

authorized by subsection A of Section 844 of this title; and

20. “State local government matching payment” means the payment

authorized by subsection D of Section 844 of this title.