J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      967

It is the policy of this Act to establish minimum wage and over-
time compensation standards in the State of Maryland to provide
a maintenance level consistent with the needs of the population for
their health, efficiency and general well-being. Any agreement to
work for less shall be null and void. This will tend to safeguard
employers and their employees against unfair competition and will
increase the stability of industry and the purchasing power of
employees and decrease the need for supplemental payments of public
moneys for the relief of these employees.

82. As used in this Act:

(a)  "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department
of Labor and Industry;

(b)  "Wage" means compensation due to an employee by reason
of his employment, payable in legal tender of the United States or
checks on banks convertible into cash on demand at full face value,
subject to such allowances as may be permitted by regulations of
the Commissioner of Labor and Industry under Section 85;

(c)  "Employ" includes to suffer or to permit to work;

(d)  "Employer" includes any individual, partnership, association,
corporation, business trust, or any person or group of persons
employing four SEVEN or more employees at any one time, acting
directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an
employee;

(e)  "Employee" includes any individual employed by an employer
but shall not include:

(1)  any individual employed in agriculture;

(2)  any individual employed in domestic service in or about a
private home;

(3) any individual employed in a bona fide executive, administra-
tive, or professional capacity (as such terms are defined and delim-
ited by regulation of the Commissioner);

(4) any individual engaged in the activities of an educational,
charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization where the employer-
employee relationship does not in fact exist and where the services
are rendered to such organizations gratuitously, and with no expec-
tation of gain;

(5) ANY INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYED IN ANY OF THE FOL-
LOWING BUSINESSES AND ESTABLISHMENTS WHO CUS-
TOMARILY RECEIVE GRATUITIES AS PART OF THEIR SAL-
ARIES: RESTAURANTS, CAFES, TAVERNS, DRIVE-INS,
DRUG STORES, WHICH SELL FOOD AND DRINK FOR CON-
SUMPTION ON THE PREMISES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ES-
TABLISHMENTS WHICH SELL FOOD AND DRINK FOR CON-
SUMPTION ON THE PREMISES: HOTELS, MOTELS, PARK
ING LOTS, CAR WASHES AND TAXICAB COMPANIES.

(6) ANY INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYED BY HOSPITALS, NURS-
ING AND CONVALESCENT HOMES, EXCEPT ANY INDI-
VIDUAL EMPLOYED IN LAUNDRY SERVICE IN SAID HOS-