[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: 29CFR780.800]



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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 I_Employment in Ginning of Cotton and Processing of Sugar Beets, 

   Sugar-Beet Molasses, Sugarcane, or Maple Sap into Sugar or Syrup; 

    Exemption From Overtime Pay Requirements Under Section 13(b)(15)

 

Sec.  780.800  Scope and significance of interpretative bulletin.



                              Introductory





    Subpart A of this part 780 and this subpart I constitute the 

official interpretative bulletin of the Department of Labor with respect 

to the meaning and application of section 13(b)(15) of the Fair Labor 

Standards Act of 1938, as amended. This section provides an exemption 

from the overtime pay provisions of the Act for two industries (a) for 

employees engaged in ginning of cotton for market in any place of 

employment located in a county where cotton is grown in commercial 

quantities and (b) for employees engaged in the processing of sugar 

beets, sugar-beet molasses, sugarcane or maple sap, into sugar (other 

than refined sugar) or syrup. The limited overtime exemptions provided 

for cotton ginning and



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for sugar processing under sections 7(c) and 7(d) (see part 526 of this 

chapter) are not discussed in this subpart.