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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".19" citation="COMAR 09.32.01.19" title_num="09" subtitle_num="32" chapter_num="01" heading="Employment Not Covered when Services Performed for Certain Religiously Affiliated Organizations.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>A person is not engaged in covered employment when the person is employed by a church or convention or association of churches.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A person is not engaged in covered employment when the person is employed by an organization which is:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Operated, supervised, controlled, or principally supported by a church or convention or association of churches; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Operated primarily for religious purposes.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Circumstances that may support the determination that the organization is operated primarily for religious purposes include, but are not limited to:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Interrelationship between affiliation with the church and institutional autonomy, including:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Composition of governing board,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Degree of supervision of church,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Sources of financial support;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Extent of religious indoctrination, including:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Stated purpose,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Extent of encouragement of spiritual development,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Composition of student body,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Extent of religious exercises,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Extent of prayer in the classroom,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Extent of religion or theology classes,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Degree of intellectual freedom in nontheology classes,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>Composition of faculty,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(i)">
        <text>Degree of academic freedom.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>