[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR541.300]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 541_DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE TERMS ``ANY EMPLOYEE EMPLOYED IN A 
 
                        Subpart B_Interpretations
 
Sec. 541.300  General.

    The term ``professional'' is not restricted to the traditional 
professions of law, medicine, and theology. It includes those 
professions which have a recognized status and which are based on the 
acquirement of professional knowledge through prolonged study. It also 
includes the artistic professions, such as acting or music. Since the 
test of the bona fide professional capacity of such employment is 
different in character from the test for persons in the learned 
professions, an alternative test for such employees is contained in the 
regulations, in addition to the requirements common to both groups.

[38 FR 11390, May 7, 1973. Redesignated at 57 FR 46744, Oct. 9, 1992.]