Texas Labor Code 62.160 – Agricultural Exemptions
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(a) An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to employment of a person in dairy farming.
(b) Sections 62.051-62.054 do not apply to an agricultural employer with respect to an employee engaged in the production of livestock.
Terms Used In Texas Labor Code 62.160
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) In this section, “production of livestock” includes:
(1) any livestock operation, without regard to size or type of location, in which the land produces forage or feedstuffs, including naturally or artificially revegetated forage or feedstuffs;
(2) breeding, feeding, watering, containing, maintaining, and caring for livestock;
(3) production of livestock in feedlots; and
(4) all other activities necessary or useful to the raising of livestock.