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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="3-403" title_number="3" title_name="Employment Standards and Conditions" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Wages and Hours">
  <text>This subtitle does not apply to an individual who:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>is employed in a capacity that the Commissioner defines, by regulation, to be administrative, executive, or professional;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>is employed in a nonadministrative capacity at an organized camp, including a resident or day camp;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>is under the age of 16 years and is employed no more than 20 hours in a week;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>is employed as an outside salesman;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>is compensated on a commission basis;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>is a child, parent, spouse, or other member of the immediate family of the employer;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>is employed in a drive–in theater;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>is employed as part of the training in a special education program for emotionally, mentally, or physically handicapped students under a public school system;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="9">
    <text>is employed by an employer who is engaged in canning, freezing, packing, or first processing of perishable or seasonal fresh fruits, vegetables, or horticultural commodities, poultry, or seafood;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="10">
    <text>engages in the activities of a charitable, educational, nonprofit, or religious organization if:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>the service is provided gratuitously; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>there is, in fact, no employer–employee relationship;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="11">
    <text>is employed in a cafe, drive–in, drugstore, restaurant, tavern, or other similar establishment that:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>sells food and drink for consumption on the premises; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>has an annual gross income of $400,000 or less;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="12">
    <text>is employed in agriculture if, during each quarter of the preceding calendar year, the employer used no more than 500 agricultural–worker days;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="13">
    <text>is engaged principally in the range production of livestock;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="14">
    <text>is employed as a hand–harvest laborer and is paid on a piece–rate basis in an operation that, in the region of employment, has been and customarily and generally is recognized as having been paid on that basis, if:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>the individual:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>commutes daily from the permanent residence of the individual to the farm where the individual is employed; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>during the preceding calendar year, was employed in agriculture less than 13 weeks; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>the individual:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>is under the age of 17;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>is employed on the same farm as a parent of the individual or a person standing in the place of the parent; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>is paid at the same rate that an employee who is at least 17 years old is paid on the same farm;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="15">
    <text>is a covered employee under the Secure Maryland Wage Act; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="16">
    <level label="i">
      <text>has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>is compensated in accordance with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that expressly states the wages and working conditions of employees.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
