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[CITE: 15USC697c]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
             CHAPTER 14B--SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT PROGRAM
 
      SUBCHAPTER V--LOANS TO STATE AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES
 
Sec. 697c. Restrictions on development company assistance

    Notwithstanding Any Other Provision of Law: (1) on or after May 1, 
1991, no development company may accept funding from any source, 
including but not limited to any department or agency of the United 
States Government, if such funding includes any conditions, priorities 
or restrictions upon the types of small businesses to which they may 
provide financial assistance under this subchapter or if it includes any 
conditions or imposes any requirements, directly or indirectly, upon any 
recipient of assistance under this subchapter; and (2) before such date, 
no department or agency of the United States Government which provides 
funding to any development company shall impose any condition, priority 
or restriction upon the type of small business which receives financing 
under this subchapter nor shall it include any condition or impose any 
requirement, directly or indirectly, upon any recipient of assistance 
under this subchapter: Provided, That the foregoing shall not affect any 
such conditions, priorities or restrictions if the department or agency 
also provides all of the financial assistance to be delivered by the 
development company to the small business and such conditions, 
priorities or restrictions are limited solely to the financial 
assistance so provided.

(Pub. L. 85-699, title V, Sec. 506, as added Pub. L. 100-590, title I, 
Sec. 117(b), Nov. 3, 1988, 102 Stat. 2998.)
