{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-62.160","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Labor Code § 62.160","heading":"AGRICULTURAL EXEMPTIONS.","body":"(a) An employer is exempt from this chapter with respect to employment of a person in dairy farming.\n(b) Sections 62.051-62.054 do not apply to an agricultural employer with respect to an employee engaged in the production of livestock.\n(c) In this section, \"production of livestock\" includes:\n(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;\n(2) breeding, feeding, watering, containing, maintaining, and caring for livestock;\n(3) production of livestock in feedlots; and\n(4) all other activities necessary or useful to the raising of livestock.\nActs 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.\nAmended by:\nActs 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 506 (S.B. 1016), Sec. 5.34, eff. September 1, 2009.","path":["LABOR CODE","TITLE 2. PROTECTION OF LABORERS","SUBTITLE C. WAGES","CHAPTER 62. MINIMUM WAGE","SUBCHAPTER D. EXEMPTIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.62.htm#62.160","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:24Z","sha256":"3449f95232bc731b7a24fd42a6bb7ff94be45a3b0bee90e5c7dd8c2144f78066","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-62.159","next":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-62.161"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}