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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 1-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="1-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">The terms hereinafter set forth, wherever used in this Division I, are defined as follows.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Employ.">“Employ” means to permit to work.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Employer.">
      <para num="(1)">“Employer” means any person, individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any other organized group or successor of an individual, partnership, association, corporation, trust of persons employing 2 or more persons in the City of Baltimore.</para>
      <para num="(2)">“Employer” shall not include the United States, any State, or any political subdivision thereof.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Employee.">
      <para num="(1)">“Employee” means any person permitted or instructed to work or be present by an employer.</para>
      <para num="(2)">“Employee” shall not include:<para num="(i)">persons engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, or other nonprofit organization where the services rendered to such organization are on a voluntary basis, or in return for charitable aid conferred upon such person;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">persons employed in a bona fide executive, supervisory, or professional capacity;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">persons employed by any member of their immediate family;</para>
        <para num="(iv)">persons compensated upon a commission basis only; or</para>
        <para num="(v)">persons employed as domestics within a home, only to the extent that such persons have been exempted from the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act as amended and as hereafter amended.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1966, art. 19, §52</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 19, §64</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 64-370</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 65-491</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 66-739</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 67-1219</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 70-798</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 75-969</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 78-778</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 90-601</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
