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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63142</law_id><section_number>32.1-203</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>35.1-1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Environmental Health Services</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Migrant Labor Camps</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Camp operator</span>&#x201D; means a <span class="dictionary">person</span> who has charge, care or control of a <span class="dictionary">migrant labor camp</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Migrant labor camp</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;camp&#x201D; means one or more structures, buildings, tents, barracks, trailers, vehicles, converted buildings, and unconventional enclosures of living space, reasonably contiguous, together with the land appertaining thereto, established, operated or used as living quarters for one or more <span class="dictionary">persons</span>, one or more of whom is a <span class="dictionary">migrant worker</span> engaged in agricultural or fishing activities, including related food processing. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Migrant labor camp</span>&#x201D; does not include (i) a summer camp, campground or hotel as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/35.1-1/">35.1-1</a>, (ii) housing which, in the ordinary course of business, is regularly offered to the general public on a commercial basis and is provided to any <span class="dictionary">migrant worker</span> on the same or comparable terms and conditions as provided to the general public, or (iii) small businesses which are exempt under federal <span class="dictionary">law</span> as provided in the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Migrant and Seasonal Worker Protection Act.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Migrant worker</span>&#x201D; means any individual from within or outside the Commonwealth who passes seasonally from one place to another for the purpose of employment, who is not a year-round employee and who occupies living quarters other than his permanent home during the period of such work.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Applicable regulations</span>&#x201D; includes regulations of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> adopted pursuant to this article and occupational safety and health regulations applicable to <span class="dictionary">migrant labor camps</span> adopted by the Safety and Health Codes <span class="dictionary">Board</span> pursuant to Chapter 3 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Safety and Health Codes Commission continued as Safety and Health Codes Board" href="/40.1-22/">40.1-22</a> et seq.) of Title 40.1.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 32-415; 1962, c. 251; 1979, c. 711; 1988, c. 632; 1990, c. 780; 1992, c. 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
