44-1603. LICENSE — APPLICATION — CONTENTS. (1) Except as otherwise provided, no person shall act as a farm labor contractor unless such person holds a valid license issued by the department.

(2) An application for a farm labor contractor’s license shall be sworn to by the applicant and shall be submitted on a form prescribed by the department that shall require, but not be limited to, the following information and documentation:

(a) The applicant’s name, Idaho address and all other temporary and permanent addresses the applicant uses or knows will be used in the future;

(b) Two (2) recent, passport sized, color photographs of the applicant, or the applicant’s authorized agent when the applicant is not a natural person;

(c) A statement by the applicant of all facts required by the department concerning the applicant’s fitness, competency, and qualifications to engage in the business of farm labor contracting;

(d) A statement by the applicant of all facts required by the department concerning the manner and method by which the applicant proposes to conduct operations as a farm labor contractor;

(e) A certificate of insurance issued by the applicant’s auto insurance carrier listing the department as the certificate holder and providing for a thirty (30) day cancellation notice for all vehicles used in the operation of the farm labor contracting business;

(f) A certificate of workers’ compensation insurance issued by the applicant’s workers’ compensation insurance carrier listing the department as the certificate holder and providing for a thirty (30) day cancellation notice;

(g) Whether the applicant has or was ever granted a farm labor contractor’s license in any other jurisdiction;

(h) Whether the applicant was ever denied a license or had a license revoked or suspended under the farm labor contractor laws of any other jurisdiction;

(i) The names and addresses of all persons financially interested, whether as partners, limited liability company members, shareholders, associates, or profit sharers in the applicant’s proposed operation as a farm labor contractor, together with the amount of their respective interests, and whether or not, to the best of the applicant’s knowledge, any such persons were ever denied a license or had a license revoked or suspended under the farm labor contractor laws of any jurisdiction; and

(j) The following declaration by the applicant, or the applicant’s authorized agent when the applicant is not a natural person: "With regards to any action filed against the applicant concerning the applicant’s activities as a farm labor contractor, the applicant appoints the director of the Idaho Department of Labor as the applicant’s lawful agent to accept service of summons when the applicant is not present in the jurisdiction in which such action is commenced or have in any other way become unavailable to accept service.".

History:

[44-1603, added 2002, ch. 328, sec. 1, p. 921.]