61-1-17. Agricultural labor included--Criteria.
As used in this title, the term, employment, includes service performed by an individual in agricultural labor as defined in §61-1-18 when:
(1)The service is performed for a person who:
(a)During any calendar quarter in either the current or the preceding calendar year paid remuneration in cash of twenty thousand dollars or more to individuals employed in agricultural labor; or
(b)For some portion of a day in each of twenty different calendar weeks, whether or not the weeks were consecutive, in either the current or the preceding calendar year, employed in agricultural labor ten or more individuals, regardless of whether they were employed at the same moment of time; or
(2)For the purpose of this section any individual who is a member of a crew furnished by a crew leader to perform service in agricultural labor for any other person shall be treated as an employee of the crew leader:
(a)If the crew leader holds a valid certificate of registration under the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 as amended to January 1, 1977; or substantially all the members of the crew operate or maintain tractors, mechanized harvesting, or crop-dusting equipment, or any other mechanized equipment, which is provided by the crew leader; and
(b)If the individual is not an employee of the other person within the meaning of §61-1-24; or
(3)For the purposes of this section, in the case of any individual who is furnished by a crew leader to perform service in agricultural labor for any other person and who is not treated as an employee of the crew leader under subdivision (2) of this section:
(a)Such other person and not the crew leader shall be treated as the employer of the individual; and
(b)Such other person shall be treated as having paid cash remuneration to the individual in an amount equal to the amount of cash remuneration paid to the individual by the crew leader either on the crew leader's own behalf or on behalf of such other person for the service in agricultural labor performed for such other person; or
(4)For the purposes of this section, the term, crew leader, means an individual who:
(a)Furnishes individuals to perform service in agricultural labor for any other person;
(b)Pays (either on the crew leader's own behalf or on behalf of such other person) the individuals so furnished by the crew leader for the service in agricultural labor performed by them; and
(c)Has not entered into a written agreement with such other person under which the individual is designated as an employee of such other person.
Source: SL 1936 (SS), ch 3, §19; SDC 1939, §17.0802 (7) (g) (1); SL 1939, ch 86, §1; SL 1941, ch 82, §3; SL 1977, ch 420, §15; SL 2008, ch 277, §25; SDCL §61-1-24; SL 2012, ch 252, §59.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 61 - Reemployment Assistance
Chapter 01 - Definitions And General Provisions
Section 61-1-1 - Definition of terms.
Section 61-1-2 - Department to administer title.
Section 61-1-3 - Employing unit defined.
Section 61-1-4 - Employer defined.
Section 61-1-5 - Successor employers subject to coverage.
Section 61-1-5.1 - Combined payrolls of predecessor and successor qualifying for coverage.
Section 61-1-6 - Employer subject to coverage by addition of another employing unit.
Section 61-1-7 - Extension of coverage to employment taxed under federal law.
Section 61-1-8 - Required coverage continues until terminated by law.
Section 61-1-9 - Elective coverage continues for period of election.
Section 61-1-10 - Employment defined.
Section 61-1-11 - Employee and independent contractor distinguished.
Section 61-1-12 - Agent-drivers, commission-drivers, and salesmen included.
Section 61-1-13 - Employment by state or instrumentalities included.
Section 61-1-15 - Employment by religious, charitable, educational, or other organization included.
Section 61-1-17 - Agricultural labor included--Criteria.
Section 61-1-18 - Services included within agricultural labor.
Section 61-1-19 - Certain domestic service included.
Section 61-1-20 - Foreign service for employer with principal place of business in state included.
Section 61-1-22 - Foreign service for employer resident in state included.
Section 61-1-23 - Elective coverage of foreign service.
Section 61-1-24 - American employer defined.
Section 61-1-25 - Crew members of American vessels included.
Section 61-1-27 - Service considered within state--Services in more than one state.
Section 61-1-28 - Services within state not covered by any other compensation law.
Section 61-1-30 - Service outside state controlled from within state.
Section 61-1-33 - Employment exempt under Federal Unemployment Tax Act.
Section 61-1-34 - Foreign government service exempt.
Section 61-1-35 - Instrumentalities of foreign governments exempt.
Section 61-1-36 - Exempt employment by churches, institutions and state.
Section 61-1-38 - Student nurses, interns, and hospital patients exempt.
Section 61-1-39 - Newspaper delivery by minors exempt.
Section 61-1-41 - Insurance agents and solicitors exempt.
Section 61-1-44 - Employment by close relative exempt.
Section 61-1-45 - Coverage determined by nature of employment for major part of pay period.
Section 61-1-46 - Wages defined--Maximum annual wages subject to coverage.
Section 61-1-47 - National Guard weekend training payments not deemed wages.
Section 61-1-48 - Employer's contributions to certain plans not deemed wages.
Section 61-1-49 - Social security tax payments not deemed wages.
Section 61-1-50 - Dismissal payments not deemed wages.
Section 61-1-51 - Week of unemployment defined.
Section 61-1-52 - Registration at employment office required to commence week of unemployment.
Section 61-1-53 - Rules covering temporary or partial employment.
Section 61-1-54 - Rules covering seasonal employment.
Section 61-1-55 - Title inoperative if federal tax inoperative--Disposition of unobligated funds.