mation appropriate to the needs of agencies, organizations and the public.

SEC. 26. Effective date. This Order is effective on January 1, 1970 except sections 7(f) and 8 which are effective immediately. Effective January 1, 1970, Executive Order No. 10988 and the President's Memorandum of May 21, 1963, entitled Standards of Conduct for Employee Organizations and Code of Fair Labor Practices are revoked.

NOTE: The amendments made by E.O. 11616, 36 F.R. 17319-17322, Aug. 28, 1971, became effective 90 days from Aug. 26, 1971.

FARM LABOR CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION

ACT OF 1963

Public Law 88-582, 88th Congress, S. 524, September 7, 1964

Summary and Description

The Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 authorizes the operation of a program designed to protect migrant workers and their families from exploitation by unscrupulous farm labor contractors. This act requires certain farm labor contractors and their full-time regular employees to register on an annual basis with the Secretary of Labor and operate according to the provisions set forth in the act. Authority for administration and enforcement of the act has been delegated to the Wage and Hour Division of the Employment Standards Administration. Responsibilities of the program include publicizing the requirements of the act and regulations pertaining to it, processing of applications for registration, recommending issuance or denial of certificates of registration, investigating activities of crew leaders and the enforcement of violations of the Act.

Text of Act

(Section numbers refer to Act, not to U.S. Code)

An Act To provide for the registration of contractors of migrant agricultural workers, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963".

CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY

SEC. 2. (a) The Congress hereby finds that the channels and instrumentalities of interstate commerce are being used by certain irresponsible contractors for the services of the migrant agricultural laborers who exploit producers of agricultural products, migrant agricultural laborers, and the public generally, and that as a result of the use of the channels and instrumentalities of interstate commerce by such irresponsible contractors, the flow of interstate commerce has been impeded, obstructed, and restrained.

(b) It is therefore the policy of this Act to remove the impediments, obstructions, and restraints occasioned to the flow of interstate commerce by the activities of such irresponsible contractors by requiring that all persons engaged in the activity of contracting for the services of workers for interstate agricultural employment comply with the provisions of this Act and all regulations prescribed hereunder by the Secretary of Labor.

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 3. As used in this Act

(a) The term "person" includes any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, or corporation.

(b) The term "farm labor contractor" means any person, who, for a fee, either for himself or on behalf of another person, recruits, solicits, hires, furnishes, or transports ten or more migrant workers (excluding members of his immediate family) at any one time in any calendar year for interstate agricultural employment. Such term shall not include (1) any nonprofit charitable organization, public or nonprofit private educational institution, or similar organization; (2) any farmer, processor, canner, ginner, packing shed operator, or nurseryman who engages in any such activity for the purpose of supplying migrant workers solely for his own operation; (3) any full-time or regular employee of any entity referred to in (1) or (2) above; or (4) any person who engages in any such activity for the purpose of obtaining migrant workers of any foreign nation for employment in the United States, if the employment of such workers is subject to (A) an agreement between the United States and such foreign nation, or (B) an arrangement with the government of any foreign nation under which written contracts for the employment of such workers are provided for and the enforcement thereof is provided for in the United States by an instrumentality of such foreign nation.

(c) The term "fee" includes any money or other valuable consideration paid or promised to be paid to a person for services as a farm labor contractor.

(d) The term "interstate agricultural employment" means employment in any service or activity included within the provisions of section 3(f) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (29 U.S.C. 203 (f)), or section 3121(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 3121 (g)), when such service or activity is performed by an individual worker who has been transported from one State to another or from any place outside of a State to any place within a State.

(e) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the United States Department of Labor or his duly authorized represntative.

(f) The term "State" means any of the States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and Guam.

(g) The term "migrant worker" means an individual whose primary employment is in agriculture, as defined in section 3(f) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203 (f)), or who performs agricultural labor, as defined in section 3121 (g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 3121(g)), on a seasonal or other temporary basis.

CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION REQUIRED

SEC. 4. (a) No person shall engage in activities as a farm labor contractor unless he first obtains a certificate of registration from the Secretary, and unless such certificate is in full force and effect and is in such person's immediate possession.

(b) A full-time or regular employee of any person holding a valid certificate of registration under the provisions of this Act shall not,

for the purpose of engaging in activities as a farm labor contractor solely on behalf of such person, be required to obtain a certificate of registration hereunder in his own name. Any such employee shall be required to have in his immediate personal possession when engaging in such activities such identification as the Secretary may require showing such employee to be an employee of, and duly authorized to engage in activities as a farm labor contractor for, a person holding a valid certificate of registration under the provisions of this Act. Except as provided in the foregoing provisions of this subsection, any such employee shall be subject to the provisions of this Act and regulations prescribed hereunder to the same extent as if he were required to obtain a certificate of registration in his own name.

ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION

SEC. 5. (a) The Secretary shall, after appropriate investigation, issue a certificate of registration under this Act to any person who

(1) has executed and filed with the Secretary a written application subscribed and sworn to by the applicant containing such information (to the best of his knowledge and belief) concerning his conduct and method of operation as a farm labor contractor as the Secretary may require in order effectively to carry out the provisions of this Act;

(2) has filed, within such time as the Secretary may prescribe, proof satisfactory to the Secretary of the financial responsibility of the applicant or proof satisfactory to the Secretary of the existence of a policy of insurance which insures such applicant against liability for damages to persons or property arising out of the applicants' ownership of, operation of, or his causing to be operated any vehicle for the transportation of migrant workers in connection with his business, activities, or operations as a farm labor contractor. The amount of any such policy of insurance shall not be less than the amount required under the law or regulation of any State in which applicant operates a vehicle in connection with his business, activities, or operations as a farm labor contractor; but in no event shall the amount of such insurance be less than $5,000 for bodily injuries to or death of one person; $20,000 for bodily injuries to or death of all persons injured or killed in any one accident; $5,000 for the loss or damage in any one accident to property of others; and

(3) has filed, within such time as the Secretary may prescribe, a set of his fingerprints.

(b) Upon notice and hearing in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, the Secretary may refuse to issue, and may suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a certificate of registration to any farm labor contractor if he finds that such contractor

(1) knowingly has made any misrepresentations or false statements in his application for a certificate of registration or any renewal thereof;

(2) knowingly has given false or misleading information to migrant workers concerning the terms, conditions, or existence of agricultural employment;

(3) has failed, without justification, to perform agreements entered into or arrangements with farm operators;

(4) has failed, without justification, to comply with the terms of any working arrangements he has made with migrant workers;

(5) has failed to show financial responsibility satisfactory to the Secretary required by subsection (a) (2) of this section or has failed to keep in effect a policy of insurance required by subsection (a) (2) of this section;

(6) has recruited, employed, or utilized the services of a person with knowledge that such person is violating the provisions of the immigration and nationality laws of the United States;

(7) has been convicted of any crime under State or Federal law relating to gambling or to the sale, distribution, or possession of alcoholic liquors in connection with or incident to his activities as a farm labor contractor; or has been convicted of any crime under State or Federal law involving robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, assault which inflicts grievous bodily injury, or prostitution;

(8) has failed to comply with rules and regulations promulgated by the Interstate Commerce Commission that are applicable to his activities and operations in interstate commerce;

(9) knowingly employs or continues to employ any person to whom subsection (b) of section 4 of this Act applies who has taken any action, except for that listed in paragraph (5) of this subsection, which could be used by the Secretary under this subsection to refuse to issue a certificate of registration; or

(10) has failed to comply with any of the provisions of this Act or any regulations issued hereunder.

(c) A certificate of registration, once issued, may not be transferred or assigned and shall be effective for the remainder of the calendar year during which it is issued, unless suspended or revoked by the Secretary as provided in this Act. A certificate of registration may be renewed each calendar year upon approval by the Secretary of an application for its renewal.

OBLIGATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS

SEC. 6. Every farm labor contractor shall

(a) carry his certificate of registration with him at all times while engaging in activities as a farm labor contractor and exhibit the same to all persons with whom he intends to deal in his capacity as a farm labor contractor prior to so dealing;

(b) ascertain and disclose to each worker at the time the worker is recruited the following information to the best of his knowledge and belief: (1) the area of employment, (2) the crops and operations on which he may be employed, (3) the transportation, housing, and insurance to be provided him, (4) the wage rates to be paid him, and (5) the charges to be made by the contractor for his services;

(c) upon arrival at a given place of employment, post in a conspicuous place a written statement of the terms and conditions of that employment;