HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                    1247

CHAPTER 105

(House Bill 106)

AN ACT concerning

Worker's Compensation - Coverage of Agricultural Employees

FOR the purpose of clarifying that worker's compensation coverage
is extended to seasonal and migratory farm laborers, with
certain exceptions; restoring worker's compensation coverage
to all persons who operate or repair machinery or equipment
used in agriculture; deleting certain definitions; generally
relating to worker's compensation for agricultural workers;
and making this Act an emergency measure Chapter 751 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of 1984.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 21(b)(8)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 21(c)(8)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

21.

(b) The following shall constitute employees subject to the
provisions of this act, except as exempted under subsection (c)
of this section:

(8) ANY PERSON ENGAGED IN [Farming] FARMING and dairy
farming ANY PERSON RECEIVING REMUNERATION FROM A FARMER OR A
DAIRY FARMER FOR SERVICES PERFORMED, other than office work, and
including, by way of illustration and not by way of limitation,
the operation of any machinery connected with any phase of soil,
crop or animal management, construction and repairs of machinery
and fixtures, and the handling of any crops or animals with or
without machinery whether or not performed by a seasonal or
migratory farm laborer.