[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR531.31]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 531_WAGE PAYMENTS UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938--Table 
of Contents
 
                        Subpart C_Interpretations
 
Sec. 531.31  ``Customarily'' furnished.

    The reasonable cost of board, lodging, or other facilities may be 
considered as part of the wage paid an employee only where 
``customarily'' furnished to the employee. Where such facilities are 
``furnished'' to the employee, it will be considered a sufficient 
satisfaction of this requirement if the facilities are furnished 
regularly by the employer to his employees or if the same or similar 
facilities are customarily furnished by other employees engaged in the 
same or similar trade, business, or occupation in the same or similar 
communities. See Walling v. Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Co., 152 
F. (2d) 812 (C.A. 9), cert. denied, 327 U.S. 803; Southern Pacific Co. 
v. Joint Council (C.A. 9) 7 W.H. Cases 536. Facilities furnished in 
violation of any Federal, State, or local law, ordinance or prohibition 
will not be considered facilities ``customarily'' furnished.