[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: 29CFR500.103]



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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.  500.103  Activities not subject to vehicle safety standards.



    (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)