[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: 29CFR780.9]

[Page 565]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 780_EXEMPTIONS APPLICABLE TO AGRICULTURE, PROCESSING OF AGRICULTURAL 
 
                         Subpart A_Introductory
 
Sec. 780.9  Related exemptions are interpreted together.

    The interpretations contained in the several subparts of this part 
780 consider separately a number of exemptions which affect employees 
who perform activities in or connected with agriculture and its 
products. These exemptions deal with related subject matter and varying 
degrees of relationships between them were the subject of consideration 
in Congress before their enactment. Together they constitute an 
expression in some detail of existing Federal policy on the lines to be 
drawn in the industries connected with agriculture and agricultural 
products between those employees to whom the pay provisions of the Act 
are to be applied and those whose exclusion in whole or in part from the 
Act's requirements has been deemed justified. The courts have indicated 
that these exemptions, because of their relationship to one another, 
should be construed together insofar as possible so that they form a 
consistent whole. Consideration of the language and history of a related 
exemption or exemptions is helpful in ascertaining the intended scope 
and application of an exemption whose effect might otherwise not be 
clear (Addison v. Holly Hill, 322 U.S. 607; Maneja v. Waialua, 349 U.S. 
254; Bowie v. Gonzales (C.A. 1), 117 F. 2d 11). In the interpretations 
of the several exemptions discussed in the various subparts of this part 
780, effect has been given to these principles and each exemption has 
been considered in its relation to others in the group as well as to the 
combined effect of the group as a whole.