In order to stimulate the expansion of existing small businesses and to encourage the formation of new economically sound small business enterprises in this state, it is the intent of the legislature to create a consortium of state agencies and educational institutions which provide services to the state's non-agricultural small businesses for the purpose of coordinating delivery and avoiding duplication of such services to the small business community.Laws, 1983, ch. 434, § 2, eff. 3/30/1983.
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