(a) Agricultural machinery and equipment excluded. Vehicle safety
standards or insurance requirements issued under the Act and these
regulations do not apply to the transportation of any seasonal or
migrant agricultural worker on a tractor, combine, harvester, picker,
other similar machinery and equipment while such worker is actually
engaged in the planting, cultivating, or harvesting of any agricultural
commodity or the care of livestock or poultry. This exclusion applies
only to workers carrying out these activities on such machinery and
equipment or being engaged in transportation incidental thereto. The
exclusion does not include the use of such machinery for the
transportation of any worker under any other circumstances.
(b) Exclusion for immediate family transporting family members. The
standards of this subpart do not apply to an individual migrant or
seasonal agricultural worker when the only other occupants of that
individual's vehicle consist of his immediate family members as defined
in Sec. 500.20(o).
(c) Carpooling. Vehicle safety standards or insurance requirements
of the Act and these regulations do not apply to carpooling arrangements
made by the workers themselves, using one of the workers' own vehicles
and not specifically directed or requested by an agricultural employer
or agricultural association. Carpooling, however, does not include any
transportation arrangement in which a farm labor contractor
participates.
(See also Sec. 500.120)
