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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="7-102" title_number="7" title_name="Farm Labor Contractors" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This title does not apply:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to a common carrier or an employee of a common carrier solely because it transports a migrant agricultural worker;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>to a custom grain combine, hay harvesting, or sheep shearing operation or to an employee of the operation while the employee is performing a farm labor contracting service only for the operation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>to an individual who performs farm labor contracting services, or an employee of the individual while the employee is performing a farm labor contracting service only for the individual, within a 25–mile intrastate radius of the permanent place of residence of the individual and not exceeding 13 weeks a year;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>to an agricultural operation when engaging a farm labor contractor through the Maryland Department of Labor; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>to an individual who performs farm labor contracting services only for a farm or a cannery, packing shed, seed conditioning establishment, or other processing establishment, if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the individual or an immediate family member of the individual exclusively owns and operates the farm or establishment; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>only the individual and immediate family members of the individual perform farm labor contracting services for the farm or establishment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This title does not apply:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to any person other than a farm labor contractor to whom no more than 10 migrant agricultural workers are provided at any time during the current and preceding calendar years;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>to an individual while acting as an employee of an agricultural operation that is excluded under item (1) of this subsection; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>to a custom operation for poultry harvesting, breeding, debeaking, sexing, or health service or to an employee of the operation while the employee is performing a farm labor contracting service only for the operation, unless the operation regularly requires an employee to be absent during nonworking hours from the domicile of the employee.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
