75-54    ENTERPRISE ZONE - QUALIFICATION FOR BENEFITS

A. In order to qualify for local incentives pertaining to business and occupational licenses under this Article, a business firm must be located within the boundaries of the Front Royal Enterprise Zone and must provide the following:


(Ord. No. 7-98 Amended 6-8-98-Effective Upon Passage)

 

1.  A new business must provide at least five (5) full-time equivalent jobs.  Said employment shall represent new jobs, not positions previously established within the town's corporate limits.

 

2.  An existing business must increase its net full-time equivalent jobs by ten percent (10%) of its existing work force or by five (5) full-time equivalent jobs, whichever is greater.

 

B.  In order to qualify for local incentives pertaining to building permit fees, water and sewer tap fees and rehabilitated real estate tax exemptions, in addition to the new employment requirements set forth in Subsection A, business firms must meet the following additional requirement:

 

1.  A minimum investment of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) in the rehabilitation, renovation, new construction or other building or site improvements in the Enterprise Zone.

 

C.  In order to qualify for local incentives pertaining to utility line extensions, in addition to the new employment requirements set forth in Section A, business firms must meet the following additional requirement:

 

1.  A minimum investment of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.) in the rehabilitation, renovation, new construction or other building or site improvements in the Enterprise Zone.

 

D.  Any business firm located in the Enterprise Zone shall be entitled to receive such additional local incentives as may be conferred by the town.


(Ord. No. 15-93 Added Entire Section/Repealed “F” 11-8-93-Effective Upon Passage)