Tex. Lab. Code § 62.160 · Subchapter D. EXEMPTIONS
AGRICULTURAL EXEMPTIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 506 (S.B. 1016), Sec. 5.34, eff. September 1, 2009.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.62.htm
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