(2) Assist assisting the chief procurement officers in aiding small and minorityowned firms and communitybased business in developing organizations to provide technical assistance to minority firms; (3) Assist assisting with the procurement and management training for small and minority firm owners; (4) Assist assisting in the identification of responsive small and minority firms; (5) Receive and process receiving and processing applications to be registered as a minority firm in accordance with Section 11355230(B); (6) The SMBAO may revoke revoking the certification of any firm which that has been found to have engaged in any of the following: (a) fraud or deceit in obtaining the certification; (b) furnishing of substantially inaccurate or incomplete information concerning ownership or financial status; (c) failure to report changes which affect the requirements for certification; (d) gross negligence, incompetence, financial irresponsibility, or misconduct in the practice of his business; or (e) wilful violation of any provision of this article. (7) After a period of one year, the SMBAO may reissue a certificate of eligibility provided acceptable evidence has been presented to the commission that the conditions which caused the revocation have been corrected.” (C) Where the provisions of this act abolish the Small and Minority Business Assistance Office as a separate division in the executive branch of state government and reconstitute it as a division of the Office of the Secretary of State, the employees, authorized appropriations, and assets and liabilities of the Small and Minority Business Assistance Office are also transferred to and become part of the Office of the Secretary of State. All classified or unclassified personnel employed by the Small and Minority Business Assistance Office on the effective date of this act, either by contract or by employment at will, become employees of the Office of the Secretary of State with the same compensation, classification, and grade level, as applicable. (D) The Code Commissioner is directed to change or correct all references to the Small and Minority business Assistance Office, Office of Executive Policy and Programs, to reflect its Governor’s status as a division of the Secretary of State.
(2) Assist assisting the chief procurement officers in aiding small and minorityowned firms and communitybased business in developing organizations to provide technical assistance to minority firms; (3) Assist assisting with the procurement and management training for small and minority firm owners; (4) Assist assisting in the identification of responsive small and minority firms; (5) Receive and process receiving and processing applications to be registered as a minority firm in accordance with Section 11355230(B); (6) The SMBAO may revoke revoking the certification of any firm which that has been found to have engaged in any of the following: (a) fraud or deceit in obtaining the certification; (b) furnishing of substantially inaccurate or incomplete information concerning ownership or financial status; (c) failure to report changes which affect the requirements for certification; (d) gross negligence, incompetence, financial irresponsibility, or misconduct in the practice of his business; or (e) wilful violation of any provision of this article. (7) After a period of one year, the SMBAO may reissue a certificate of eligibility provided acceptable evidence has been presented to the commission that the conditions which caused the revocation have been corrected.” (C) Where the provisions of this act abolish the Small and Minority Business Assistance Office as a separate division in the executive branch of state government and reconstitute it as a division of the Office of the Secretary of State, the employees, authorized appropriations, and assets and liabilities of the Small and Minority Business Assistance Office are also transferred to and become part of the Office of the Secretary of State. All classified or unclassified personnel employed by the Small and Minority Business Assistance Office on the effective date of this act, either by contract or by employment at will, become employees of the Office of the Secretary of State with the same compensation, classification, and grade level, as applicable. (D) The Code Commissioner is directed to change or correct all references to the Small and Minority business Assistance Office, Governor’s Office of Executive Policy and Programs, to reflect its status as a division of the Secretary of State.
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