2005 Idaho Code - 44-1601 — DEFINITIONS

                                  TITLE  44
                                    LABOR
                                  CHAPTER 16
                       FARM LABOR CONTRACTOR LICENSING
    44-1601.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
    (1)  "Agricultural association" means any nonprofit or cooperative
association of farmers, growers or ranchers, incorporated or qualified under
applicable state law.
    (2)  "Agricultural employer" means any person engaged in any activity
included within the definition of "agriculture" in subsection (3) of this
section.
    (3)  "Agriculture" includes farming in all its branches and, among other
things, includes the cultivation and tillage of the soil; dairying; the
production, cultivation, growing and harvesting of any agricultural,
aquacultural or horticultural commodities; the raising of livestock, bees,
fur-bearing animals or poultry; and any practices performed by a farmer or on
a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operation,
including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to
carriers for transportation to market. This definition shall not include
forestry, lumbering operations or logging contractors.
    (4)  "Department" means the department of labor of the state of Idaho.
    (5)  "Director" means the director of the department of labor.
    (6)  "Farm labor contracting activity" means recruiting, soliciting,
hiring, employing, furnishing or transporting any migrant or seasonal
agricultural worker.
    (7)  "Farm labor contractor" means any person who, for any money or other
valuable consideration paid or promised to be paid, performs any farm labor
contracting activity.
    (8)  "Immediate family member" means the spouse, children, brother,
sister, mother or father.
    (9)  "Migrant agricultural worker" means an individual who is employed in
agricultural employment of a seasonal or temporary nature, and who is required
to be absent overnight from his permanent place of residence. This term does
not include any immediate family member of an agricultural employer or a farm
labor contractor.
    (10) "Person" means an individual, association, partnership, limited
liability company, corporation or other business entity.
    (11) "Seasonal agricultural worker" means an individual who is employed in
agricultural employment of a seasonal or temporary nature and is not required
to be absent overnight from his permanent place of residence. This term does
not include any immediate family member of an agricultural employer or a farm
labor contractor.