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Tex. Lab. Code § 62.160

AGRICULTURAL EXEMPTIONS

Known as the Texas Minimum Wage Act

The act spans §§ 62–62 (28 sections).

Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff

(a) An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to employment of a person in dairy farming.

(b) Sections 62.051-62.054 do not apply to an agricultural employer with respect to an employee engaged in the production of livestock.

(c) In this section, "production of livestock" includes:

(1) any livestock operation, without regard to size or type of location, in which the land produces forage or feedstuffs, including naturally or artificially revegetated forage or feedstuffs;

(2) breeding, feeding, watering, containing, maintaining, and caring for livestock;

(3) production of livestock in feedlots; and

(4) all other activities necessary or useful to the raising of livestock.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.