In this subchapter:
- (1) "Agricultural labor" means the planting, cultivating, or harvesting of an agricultural or horticultural commodity in its unmanufactured state.
- (2) "Family" means persons related within the third degree by consanguinity or affinity.
(3) "Labor agent" means a person who:
- (A) is a farm labor contractor for purposes of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (29 U.S.C. Section 1801 et seq.); or
- (B) otherwise recruits, solicits, hires, employs, furnishes, or transports migrant or seasonal agricultural workers who work for the benefit of a third party.
(4) "Migrant worker" means an individual who is:
- (A) employed in agricultural labor of a seasonal or temporary nature; and
- (B) required to be absent overnight from the worker's permanent place of residence.
(5) "Seasonal worker" means an individual who is:
- (A) employed in agricultural or ranch labor of a seasonal or temporary nature; and
- (B) not required to be absent overnight from the worker's permanent place of residence.
- (6) "Truck farm" means a farm on which fruits, garden vegetables for human consumption, potatoes, sugar beets, or vegetable seeds are produced for market. The term includes a farm primarily devoted to one of those crops that also has incidental acreage of other crops.
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.