29 CFR § 784.101 - The section 13(b)(4) exemption.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t29/s784.101"
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title: "29 CFR § 784.101 - The section 13(b)(4) exemption."
title_number: 29
title_name: "Labor"
section_number: "784.101"
section_name: "The section 13(b)(4) exemption."
chapter_name: "WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "STATEMENTS OF GENERAL POLICY OR INTERPRETATION NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO REGULATIONS"
part_number: "784"
part_name: "PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT APPLICABLE TO FISHING AND OPERATIONS ON AQUATIC PRODUCTS"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "Secs. 1-19, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended, 75 Stat. 65; 29 U.S.C. 201-219."
regulatory_source: "35 FR 13342, Aug. 20, 1970, unless otherwise noted."
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# 784.101 The section 13(b)(4) exemption.

Section 13(b)(4) grants an exemption only from the overtime requirements of the Act and applies to “any employee employed in the canning, processing, marketing, freezing, curing, storing, packing for shipment, or distributing of any kind of fish shellfish, or other aquatic forms of animal or vegetable life, or any byproduct thereof.”