HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                        969

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation
Section 21(b)(8)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1985 Replacement Volume)

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 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.

(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.

(iii) For purposes of this section, "seasonal
or migratory farm laborer" shall not include any person who:

A.  Is employed within a 25-mile radius of
his or her permanent place of residence and for not more than 13
weeks per year; and

B.  Does not operate machinery or
equipment.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Chapter 751 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of 1984 was intended to modify
Article 101, § 21(b)(8) of the Code only to cover additional
employees and not to exclude from coverage any person then
covered. Chapter 105 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1985