§ 10-124
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§10–124.
(a)In this section, “business” means a trade, professional activity, or other business that is conducted for profit.
(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.