12-170 C.M.R. ch. 17, § I - DEFINITIONS
A. Authorizing statute means 26 MRSA
§872.
B. Covered equipment
means logging equipment used by a foreign laborer in the course of their
employment for which there is no prevailing rate established by the U. S.
Department of Labor.
C. Covered
employer means an employer that hires a foreign laborer in a logging
occupation.
D. Department means the
Maine Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Standards.
E. Director means the Director of the Bureau
of Labor Standards, Maine Department of Labor or the director's
designee.
F. Foreign laborer means
a worker granted permission to enter the United States and work temporarily in
a logging occupation under the provisions of 8 U. S. Code, Section
1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b). [Note: otherwise known as H2-B]
G. Logging equipment means equipment used
directly in the cutting and transporting of logs to the roadside and the
production of wood chips in the field. Equipment used solely for construction
of logging roads, for transporting logs or other wood products off-site or on
roadways or in ancillary activities such as recordkeeping, equipment repair,
etc. is not logging equipment as used in these rules.
H. Proof of ownership means a receipt or
other documentation of the purchase or lease of covered equipment and
documentation of the payment of any tax assessed on the covered equipment under
36 MRSA, chapter 105 for the year in which any foreign laborer is employed to
operate the covered equipment. (see Section IV )
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