July 30, 2020

The census tracts within an EZ must be zoned to allow commercial or industrial activity and meet at least one of the following criteria:

1. Twenty-five per cent or more of the persons within the individual census tracts shall have income below the poverty level;
2. Twenty-five per cent or more of the families within the individual census tracts shall receive public assistance or welfare income; or
3. The unemployment rate of the individual census tracts shall be at least two hundred per cent of the state’s average.