{"data":{"id":"us-md/md.-code-labor-and-employment-7-102","jurisdiction":"us-md","citation":"Md. Code, Labor and Employment § 7–102","heading":"","body":"(a) This title does not apply:\n(1) to a common carrier or an employee of a common carrier solely because it transports a migrant agricultural worker;\n(2) to a custom grain combine, hay harvesting, or sheep shearing operation or to an employee of the operation while the employee is performing a farm labor contracting service only for the operation;\n(3) to an individual who performs farm labor contracting services, or an employee of the individual while the employee is performing a farm labor contracting service only for the individual, within a 25–mile intrastate radius of the permanent place of residence of the individual and not exceeding 13 weeks a year;\n(4) to an agricultural operation when engaging a farm labor contractor through the Maryland Department of Labor; or\n(5) to an individual who performs farm labor contracting services only for a farm or a cannery, packing shed, seed conditioning establishment, or other processing establishment, if:\n(i) the individual or an immediate family member of the individual exclusively owns and operates the farm or establishment; and\n(ii) only the individual and immediate family members of the individual perform farm labor contracting services for the farm or establishment.\n(b) This title does not apply:\n(1) to any person other than a farm labor contractor to whom no more than 10 migrant agricultural workers are provided at any time during the current and preceding calendar years;\n(2) to an individual while acting as an employee of an agricultural operation that is excluded under item (1) of this subsection; or\n(3) to a custom operation for poultry harvesting, breeding, debeaking, sexing, or health service or to an employee of the operation while the employee is performing a farm labor contracting service only for the operation, unless the operation regularly requires an employee to be absent during nonworking hours from the domicile of the employee.","path":["Article - Labor and Employment"],"source_url":"https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gle\u0026section=7-102","current_through":"2026-01-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:59:38Z","sha256":"2fbbe9e2ae9b6fea6d4a3e0231af02bfa226eb748cfab9eb37ead8ce3cd0bbc4","source_id":"us-md","stale":false,"prev":"us-md/md.-code-labor-and-employment-7-101","next":"us-md/md.-code-labor-and-employment-7-103"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}