[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: 29CFR780.326]



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                             TITLE 29--LABOR

 

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

 

PART 780_EXEMPTIONS APPLICABLE TO AGRICULTURE, PROCESSING OF AGRICULTURAL 

COMMODITIES, AND RELATED SUBJECTS UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT--Table 

of Contents

 

 Subpart D_Employment in Agriculture That Is Exempted From the Minimum 

        Wage and Overtime Pay Requirements Under Section 13(a)(6)

 

Sec.  780.326  On the range.



    (a) For purposes of this exemption, ``range'' is defined generally 

as land that is not cultivated. It is land that produces native forage 

for animal consumption, and includes land that is revegetated naturally 

or artificially to provide a forage cover that is managed like range 

vegetation. ``Forage'' as used here means ``browse'' or herbaceous food 

that is available to livestock or game animals.

    (b) The range may be on private or Federal or State land, and need 

not be open. Typically it is not only noncultivated land, but land that 

is not suitable for cultivation because it is rocky, thin, semiarid, or 

otherwise poor. Typically, also, many acres of range land are required 

to graze one animal unit (five sheep or one cow) for 1 month. By its 

nature, range production of livestock is most typically conducted over 

wide expanses of land, such as thousands of acres.



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