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      Sec. 31-62. Report and regulations. (a) A report from a wage board shall be submitted to the commissioner, who shall, within fifteen days, accept or reject such report. If the report is rejected, the commissioner shall resubmit the matter to the same wage board or to a new wage board, with a statement of the reasons for the resubmission. If the report is accepted, it shall be published, together with such administrative regulations as the commissioner deems appropriate, and notice shall be given of a public hearing to be held by the commissioner not sooner than fifteen nor more than thirty days after such publication, at which all persons in favor of or opposed to the recommendations contained in such report or in such proposed regulation may be heard.

      (b) Within fifteen days after such hearing, the commissioner shall approve or disapprove the report of the wage board. If the report is disapproved, the commissioner may resubmit the matter to the same wage board or to a new wage board. If the report is approved, the commissioner shall make an order, which shall define minimum fair wage rates in the occupation or occupations as recommended in the report of the wage board and which shall include such proposed administrative regulations as the commissioner deems appropriate. Such administrative regulations may include, among other things, regulations defining and governing outside salesmen; learners and apprentices, their rates, number, proportion or length of service; piece rates or their relation to time rates; overtime or part-time rates; bonuses or special pay for special or extra work; deductions for board, lodging, apparel or other items or services supplied by the employer; and other special conditions or circumstances. The commissioner may provide in such regulations, without departing from the basic minimum rates recommended by the wage board, such modifications or reductions of or additions to such rates in or for such special cases or classes of cases as those herein enumerated as the commissioner finds appropriate to safeguard the basic minimum rates established.

      (1949 Rev., S. 3789; 1951, S. 2028d.)

      Cited. 140 C. 73.