[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 29, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 29CFR500.100]



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                             TITLE 29--LABOR

 

         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

 

PART 500_MIGRANT AND SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL WORKER PROTECTION--Table of 

Contents

 

   Subpart D_Motor Vehicle Safety and Insurance for Transportation of 

Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers, Housing Safety and Health for 

                             Migrant Workers

 

Sec.  500.100  Vehicle safety obligations.



                          Motor Vehicle Safety





    (a) General obligations. Each farm labor contractor, agricultural 

employer and agricultural association which uses, or causes to be used, 

any vehicle to transport a migrant or seasonal agricultural worker shall 

ensure that such vehicle conforms to vehicle safety standards prescribed 

by the Secretary of Labor under the Act and with other applicable 

Federal and State safety standards. Each farm labor contractor, 

agricultural employer and agricultural association shall also ensure 

that each driver of any such vehicle has a currently valid motor vehicle 

operator's permit or license, as provided by applicable State law, to 

operate the vehicle.

    (b) Proof of compliance with vehicle safety standards. Prima facie 

evidence that safety standards have been met will be shown by the 

presence of a current State vehicle inspection sticker. Such sticker 

will not, however, relieve



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the farm labor contractor, agricultural employer or agricultural 

association from responsibility for maintaining the vehicle in 

accordance with Sec.  500.104 or Sec.  500.105, as applicable.

    (c) Uses or causes to be used. The term ``uses or causes to be 

used'' as set forth in paragraph (a) of this section does not include 

carpooling arrangements made by the workers themselves, using one of the 

workers' own vehicles. However, carpooling does not include any 

transportation arrangement in which a farm labor contractor participates 

or which is specifically directed or requested by an agricultural 

employer or an agricultural association.