It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 28-12-2 of the General Laws in Chapter 28-12 entitled "Minimum Wage" is hereby amended to read as follows:
{ADD 28-12-2. Definitions. -- ADD} As used in this chapter:
(1) "Director" means the director of labor or his duly authorized representative;
(2) "Commissioner" means the minimum wage commissioner appointed by the director of labor as chief of the division of labor standards;
(3) "Advisory board" means a board created as provided in section 28-12-6;
(4) "Wage" means compensation due to an employee by reason of his employment;
(5) "Employ" means to suffer or to permit to work;
(6) "Employer" includes 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;
(7) "Employee" includes any individual employed by an employer but shall not include
{DEL (A) Any individual employed in agriculture; DEL}
(B) Any individual employed in domestic service or in or about a private home;
(C) Any individual employed by the United States;
(D) [Repealed by P.L. 1962, ch. 105, Section 1.]
(E) Any individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist, or where the services rendered to such organizations are on a voluntary basis;
(F) Newsboys on home delivery, shoe shine boys in shoe shine establishments, caddies on golf courses, pin boys in bowling alleys, ushers in theatres;
(G) Traveling salesmen or outside salesmen;
(H) Service performed by an individual in the employ of his son, daughter or spouse and service performed by a child under the age of twenty-one (21) in the employ of his father or mother;
(I) Any individual employed between May 1 and October 1 in a resort establishment which regularly serves meals to the general public and which is open for business not more than six (6) months a year;
(J) Any individual employed by an organized camp which does not operate for more than seven months in any calendar year; however, this exemption shall not apply to individuals employed by said camp on an annual, full-time basis; and provided further however, that "organized camp" means any camp, except a trailer camp, having a structured program including, but not limited to, recreation, education and religious or any combination thereof;
(K) [Deleted by P.L. 1974, ch. 152, Section 1.]
(L) [Repealed by P.L. 1957 ch. 104, Section 4.]
(8) "Occupation" means any occupation, service, trade, business, industry, or branch or group of industries or employment or class of employment in which individuals are gainfully employed.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.