32-11-103. Purposes. The purposes of this chapter are to:
(1) promote economic development by encouraging the formation of one or more BIDCOs to help meet the financing assistance and management assistance needs of businesses in the state;
(2) establish a system of licensing, regulation, and enforcement to enable a BIDCO to satisfy the eligibility requirements for participating in programs that further the purposes of the BIDCO;
(3) encourage capital sources to invest in and lend money to BIDCOs by providing for BIDCOs a system of licensing, regulation, and enforcement designed to prevent fraud, conflict of interest, and mismanagement and to promote competent management, accurate recordkeeping, and appropriate communication with shareholders; and
(4) safeguard the general reputation of BIDCOs in order to increase the confidence of prospective equity investors in and prospective debt sources for BIDCOs.
History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 411, L. 2007.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 32. Financial Institutions
Chapter 11. Business and Industrial Development Corporations
Part 1. General Procedures -- Definitions -- Purposes
32-11-104. Meetings of directors and shareholders called by department
32-11-105. Administration -- rules -- orders -- declaratory rulings -- judicial review
32-11-106. Authority of department
32-11-108. Application of law under which licensee incorporated