152. The Office may, by regulation, establish classes of business firms according to the nature of their activities and the number of persons they employ. For each class so established, it may fix the date on which francization certificates become exigible, set the terms on which certificates are issued and prescribe the obligations of the firms holding certificates.
The Office may, in the same manner, establish criteria for recognizing firms as belonging to the class of business firms employing fifty or more persons or to that of business firms employing one hundred or more persons and for the purposes of this chapter define the expression “business firm”.