[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 29, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 29CFR500.102]



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                             TITLE 29--LABOR

 

         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

 

PART 500_MIGRANT AND SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL WORKER PROTECTION--Table of 

Contents

 

   Subpart D_Motor Vehicle Safety and Insurance for Transportation of 

Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers, Housing Safety and Health for 

                             Migrant Workers

 

Sec.  500.102  Applicability of vehicle safety standards.



    (a) Any passenger automobile or station wagon used or caused to be 

used by any farm labor contractor, agricultural employer or agricultural 

association to transport any migrant or seasonal agricultural worker 

shall meet the vehicle safety standards prescribed in Sec.  500.104.

    (b) Any vehicle, other than a passenger automobile or station wagon, 

used or caused to be used by any farm labor contractor, agricultural 

employer or agricultural association to transport any migrant or 

seasonal agricultural worker pursuant to a day-haul operation shall be 

subject to the safety standards prescribed under Sec.  500.105.

    (c) Any vehicle, other than a passenger automobile or station wagon, 

which has been or is being used or caused to be used for any trip of a 

distance greater than 75 miles by a farm labor contractor, agricultural 

employer or agricultural association to transport any migrant or 

seasonal agricultural worker, shall be subject to the safety standards 

prescribed under Sec.  500.105. One trip may have numerous intermediate 

stops.

    (d) Any vehicle, other than a passenger automobile or station wagon, 

used or caused to be used by any farm labor contractor, agricultural 

employer or agricultural association to transport any migrant or 

seasonal agricultural worker in any manner not addressed by paragraphs 

(a), (b), or (c) of this section shall meet the vehicle safety standards 

prescribed in Sec.  500.104.

    (e) The use or intended use of a vehicle, other than a passenger 

automobile or station wagon, for transportation of the type identified 

in Sec.  500.102(b) or Sec.  500.102(c) will make the vehicle subject to 

the standards prescribed under Sec.  500.105, so long as the vehicle is 

used for transportation subject to the Act and these regulations.

    (f) Any pickup truck used only for transportation subject to Sec.  

500.104 when transporting passengers only within the cab shall be 

treated as a station wagon.

    (g) Pursuant to section 401(b)(2)(C) of the Act, standards 

prescribed by the Secretary shall be in addition to, and shall not 

supersede nor modify, any standards prescribed under part II of the 

Interstate Commerce Act and any successor provision of subtitle IV of



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title 49, U.S. Code or the regulations issued thereunder which is 

independently applicable to transportation to which this section 

applies. A violation of any such standard shall also constitute a 

violation of the Act and these regulations.



[48 FR 36741, Aug. 12, 1983; 48 FR 38380, Aug. 23, 1983]