---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 780.612"
title: "29"
number: "780.612"
heading: "Employment by a “farmer.”"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/780.612"
---

# §780.612. Employment by a “farmer.”


A further requirement for exemption is the expressed statutory one that the employee must be employed in agriculture by a “farmer.” Employment by a nonfarmer will not qualify an employee for the exemption.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 1-19, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended; 75 Stat. 65; 29 U.S.C. 201-219. Pub. L. 105-78, 111 Stat. 1467.

### Source

Source: 37 FR 12084, June 17, 1972, unless otherwise noted.