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Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: July 5, 2024) |
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Title 29 - Labor |
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Subtitle B - Regulations Relating to Labor |
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Chapter V - Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor |
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SubChapter B - Statements of General Policy or Interpretation Not Directly Related to Regulations |
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Part 784 - Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act Applicable to Fishing and Operations on Aquatic Products |
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Subpart B - Exemptions Provisions Relating to Fishing and Aquatic Products |
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Principles Applicable to the Two Exemptions |
§ 784.108 - Operations not included in named operations on forms of aquatic “life.”
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§ 784.108 Operations not included in named operations on forms of aquatic “life.”
Since the subject matter of the exemptions is concerned with “aquatic forms of animal and vegetable life,” the courts have held that the manufacture of buttons from clam shells or the dredging of shells to be made into lime and cement are not exempt operations because the shells are not living things (Fleming v. Hawkeye Pearl Button Co., 113 F. 2d 52; Walling v. Haden, 153 F. 2d 196, certiorari denied 328 U.S. 866). Similarly, the production of such items as crushed shell and grit, shell lime, pearl buttons, knife handles, novelties, liquid glue, isinglass, pearl essence, and fortified or refined fish oil is not within these exemptions.