HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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definition of "unemployed" pursuant to § 20(1) of this article.

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

8.

(b) If a person in attendance before the Commission or a
commissioner [refuse] REFUSES, without reasonable cause, to be
examined or to answer a legal and pertinent question, or to
produce a book or paper when ordered to do so by the Commission,
the Commission may, and, upon request of any party to proceedings
before the Commission, shall apply to any judge of the circuit
court of any county, upon proof by affidavit of the fact, for a
rule or order returnable in not less than two or more than five
days, directing such person to show cause before the judge who
made the order, or any other judge aforesaid, why he should not
be committed to jail; upon the return of such order, the judge
before whom the matter and such person shall come on for a
hearing shall examine under oath such person and such person
shall be given an opportunity to be heard; and if the judge shall
determine that such person has refused, without reasonable cause
or legal excuse, to be examined or to answer a legal or pertinent
question, or to produce a book or paper which he was ordered to
bring or produce, he may forthwith commit the offender to jail,
there to remain until he submits to do the act which he was so
required to do, or is discharged according to law.

21.

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

(8) Farming and dairy farming, 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.

(i) For the purposes of this section, a farmer
is defined as one who has three (3) or more full-time employees
or who has a yearly payroll for his full-time employees of at
least fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).

(ii) For purposes of this section, "seasonal or
migratory farm laborer" means a person who is engaged in
agricultural employment of a seasonal or other temporary nature
and who is either (a) absent overnight from his permanent place
of residence or (b) transported or caused to be transported to
and from the place of employment by means of a day-haul
operation.