34:2-21.1. Definitions.
1. (a) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2022, c.63.) (b) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2022, c.63.) (c) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2022, c.63.) (d) "School district" means any geographical area having authority over the public schools within that area. (e) "Agriculture" includes farming in all its branches and among other things includes the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities (including commodities defined as agricultural commodities in subsection (g) of section 15 of the Agricultural Marketing Act, 46 Stat. 11 (12 U.S.C. s. 141 et seq.), as amended); the planting, transplanting, and care of trees, shrubs, and plants; the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or poultry; and any practices (including any forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market and delivery to storage, to market, or to carriers for transportation to market, provided that such practices shall be performed in connection with the handling of agricultural or horticultural commodities the major portion of which have been produced upon the premises of an owning or leasing employer. (f) "Newspaper carrier" means any minor between 12 and 18 years of age who engages in the occupation of delivering, soliciting, selling, and collecting for newspapers outside of school hours on residential routes. (g) "Restaurant" means any establishment or business primarily engaged in the preparation and serving of meals or refreshments, both food and drink, and shall include, but not be limited to, the following: dining establishments, catering establishments, industrial caterers, and drive-in restaurants. (h) "Theatrical production" means and includes stage, motion picture, and television performances and rehearsals therefor. (i) "Seasonal amusement" means any exclusively recreational or amusement establishment or business which does not operate more than seven months in any calendar year or which has received during any consecutive six months of the preceding calendar year average receipts equal to or less than 33 1/3% percent of its average receipts for the other six months of that year. "Seasonal amusement" includes, but is not limited to, amusement rides and amusement device ticket sales, and operations of games. However, "seasonal amusement" does not include retail, eating or drinking concessions, camps, beach and swimming facilities, movie theatres, theatrical productions, athletic events, professional entertainment, pool and billiard parlors, circuses and outdoor shows, sport activities or centers, country club athletic facilities, bowling alleys, race tracks, and like facilities which are not part of a diversified amusement enterprise. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development. "Department" means the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. "Caregiver" means a person over 18 years of age who is the biological parent, adoptive parent, foster parent, resource family parent, step-parent, parent-in-law, or legal guardian, having a "parent-child relationship" with a child as defined by law, or having sole or joint legal or physical custody, care, guardianship, or visitation with a child, or who became the parent of the child pursuant to a valid written agreement between the parent and a gestational carrier. “Family member” means a person related by blood or marriage, including civil unions and domestic partnerships, or whose close relationship with each other is considered equivalent to a family relationship by the individuals. “Online platform” means any public-facing website, web application, or digital application, including a mobile application. “Online platform” includes a social network, advertising network, mobile operating system, search engine, email service, and Internet access service. “Name” means the actual or assumed name, or nickname, of a living individual that is intended to identify that individual. “Recreational purposes” means an activity performed not for profit and for enjoyment or leisure, outside of work or business. “Vlog” means video content shared on an online platform in exchange for compensation. “Vlogger” means a person who creates video content for a business or other non-recreational purpose with the intent to generate income that employs a minor in exchange for compensation, that is performed in the State, and includes any proprietorship, partnership, company, or other corporate entity assuming the name or identity of a particular caregiver or family member for the purposes of that content creation. “Vlogger” does not include any person under the age of 18 who produces that person’s own vlogs for solely recreational purposes. L. 1940, c. 153, s. 1; amended by L. 1964, c. 288, s. 1; 1965, c. 3, s. 1; 1968, c. 61, s. 1; 1972, c. 196; 1981, c. 331, s. 1; 1987, c. 125, s. 1; 2022, c.63, s.1; 2025, c.355, s.1.