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PUBLIC LAW 88-582-SEPT. 7, 1964

[78 STAT.

Public Law 88-582 September 7. 1964

AN ACT

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To provide for the registration of contractors of migrant agricultural workers, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the /Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act t^atVonAc't of^"" Hiaj be cited as the "Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of Farm Labor ^^^^^ Regis' Contractor ^^^ ^ _

1963.

1963". CONGRESSIONAL F I N D I N G S

A N D DECLARATION

OF POLICY

SEC. 2. (a) The Congress hereby finds that the channels and instrumentalities of interstate commerce are being used by certain irresponsible contractors for the services of the migrant agricultural laborers who exploit producers of agricultural products, migrant agricultural laborers, and the public generally, and that, as a result of the use of the channels and instrumentalities of interstate commerce by such irresponsible contractors, the flow of interstate commerce has been impeded, obstructed, and restrained. (b) I t is therefore the policy of this Act to remove the impediments, obstructions, and restraints occasioned to the flow of interstate commerce by the activities of such irresponsible contractors by requiring that all persons engaged in the activity of contracting for the services of workers for interstate agricultural employment comply with the provisions of this Act and all regulations prescribed hereunder by the Secretary of Labor. DEFINITIONS

52 Stat. 1060.

SEC. 3. As used in this Act— (a) The term "person" includes any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, or corporation. (b) The term "farm labor contractor" means any person, who, for a fee, either for himself or on behalf of another person, recruits, solicits, hires, furnishes, or transports ten or more migrant workers (excluding members of his immediate family) at any one time in any calendar year for interstate agricultural employment. Such term shall not include (1) any nonprofit charitable organization, public or nonprofit private educational institution, or similar organization; (2) any farmer, processor, canner, ginner, packing shed operator, or nurseryman who engages in any such activity for the purpose of supplying migrant workers solely for his own operation; (3) any full-time or regular employee of any entity referred to in (1) or (2) above; or (4) any person who engages in any such activity for the purpose of obtaining migrant workers of any foreign nation for employment in the United States, if the employment of such workers is subject to (A) an agreement between the United States and such foreign nation, or (B) an arrangement with the government of any foreign nation under which written contracts for the employment of such workers are provided for and the enforcement thereof is provided for in the United States by an instrumentality of such foreign nation. (c) The term "fee" includes any money or other valuable consideration paid or promised to be paid to a person for services as a farm labor contractor. (d) The term "interstate agricultural employment" means employment in any service or activity included within the provisions of section 3(f) of the F a i r Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (29 XJ.S.C. 203(f)), or section 3121(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of

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