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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="3-713" title_number="3" title_name="Employment Standards and Conditions" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “tipped employee” means an employee who is engaged in an occupation in which the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 each month in tips or gratuities.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An employer may not require a tipped employee to reimburse the employer or pay to the employer an amount equivalent to a customer’s charge for food or beverages if the customer leaves the employer’s place of business without paying the charge for food or beverages.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Subject to § 3–503 of this title, an employer may not make a deduction from the wage of a tipped employee to reimburse the employer for an amount equivalent to a customer’s charge for food or beverages if the customer leaves the employer’s place of business without paying the charge for food or beverages.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Each employer shall keep posted conspicuously in a place where a tipped employee is employed a printed notice of the provisions of this section, in a form that the Commissioner requires.</text>
  </level>
</section>
