---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 780.809"
title: "29"
number: "780.809"
heading: "Employees engaged in exempt operations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/780.809"
---

# §780.809. Employees engaged in exempt operations.


Employees engaged in actual ginning operations, as described in [§ 780.804](/cfr/29/780.804.md) will come within the exemption if all other conditions of [section 13(b)(15)](/cfr/29/13.md?p=b-15) are met. The following activities are among those within the meaning of the term “engaged in ginning of cotton”:

- (a) “Spotting” vehicles in the gin yard or in nearby areas before or after being weighed.
- (b) **Moving vehicles in the gin yard or from nearby areas to the “Suction” and reparking them subsequently.**
- (c) Weighing the seed cotton prior to ginning, weighing lint cotton and seed subsequent to ginning (including preparation of weight records and tickets in connection with weighing operations).
- (d) Placing seed cotton in temporary storage at the gin and removing the cotton from such storage to be ginned.
- (e) **Operating the suction feed.**
- (f) **Operating the gin stands and power equipment.**
- (g) **Making gin repairs during the ginning season.**
- (h) Operating the press, including the handling of bagging and ties in connection with the ginning operations of that gin.
- (i) **Removing bales from the press to holding areas on or near the gin premises.**
- (j) Others whose work is so directly and physically connected with the ginning process itself that it constitutes an integral part of its actual performance.

## 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.