(a) In this section, 'business' means a trade, professional activity, or other business that is conducted for profit. (b) (1) Before a unit adopts a proposed regulation, the unit shall evaluate whether the proposed regulation has any impact on businesses. (2) To evaluate the impact, the unit shall: (i) on the basis of the sizes of the businesses that the proposed regulation might affect, divide those businesses into any classes that the unit considers appropriate for the proposed regulation; and (ii) particularly consider: 1. the costs that the proposed regulation would impose on each class; and 2. the difficulty of compliance for each class. (c) On the basis of the evaluation, the unit may adopt 1 or more regulations that apply differently to classes of businesses.
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