As used in this part:

1. (1) “Act” means the Minimum Wage Act of the State of Arkansas, Arkansas Code § 11-4-201 et seq.;

2. (2)

   1. (A) “Agriculture” means farming in all its branches and, among other things, includes:

      1. (i) The cultivation and tillage of the soil;
      2. (ii) Dairying;
      3. (iii) The production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities;
      4. (iv) The raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or poultry; and

      5. (v) Any practices (including any forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including:

         1. (a) (a) Preparation for market; and
         2. (b) (b) Delivery to storage or to market, or to carriers for transportation to market.

   2. (B) “Agriculture” also includes the catching, taking, propagating, harvesting, cultivating, or farming of any kind of:

      1. (i) Fish;
      2. (ii) Shellfish;
      3. (iii) Crustacean;
      4. (iv) Sponges;
      5. (v) Seaweeds; or
      6. (vi) Other aquatic forms of animal and vegetable life.
   3. (C) “Agriculture” includes cotton ginning and work performed as necessary and incidental to cotton ginning in an establishment primarily engaged in the ginning of cotton, including all work exempt from overtime pursuant to the provisions of 29 U.S.C. § 213(h) and (i);
3. (3) “Director” means the Director of the Division of Labor, Department of Labor and Licensing;
4. (4) “Employ” means to suffer or permit to work;
5. (5) “Employee” means any individual employed by an employer, but does not include those individuals specifically excluded by Arkansas Code § 11-4-203(3) and 11 CAR § 11-601 et seq.;

6. (6)

   1. (A) “Employer” means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, the state, any political subdivision of the state, or any person or group of persons acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee.
   2. (B) The term “employer” shall not include any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any person or group of persons acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee for any workweek in which fewer than four (4) employees are employed;
7. (7) “Manager” means the Manager of the Labor Standards Section, Division of Labor, Department of Labor and Licensing; and
8. (8) “Section” means the Labor Standards Section, Division of Labor, Department of Labor and Licensing.