Section 454(b)-2 - DefinitionsAs used in Sections 454(b) - 1 through 454(b) - 8 of these regulations, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(a) "The Interstate Maritime Reciprocal Arrangement" and the "Arrangement" means the plan approved by the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies under which coverage of maritime services is coordinated and integrated as between the jurisdictions, duplication of contributions with respect to maritime services is avoided, and continuity of coverage of services of individuals engaged in maritime service is assured.(b) "Jurisdiction" means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.(c) "Participating jurisdiction" means a jurisdiction which has subscribed to the Arrangement and has not terminated its adherence thereto in accordance with the provisions thereof.(d) "Agency" means any officer, board, commission, or other authority charged with the administration of the unemployment compensation law of a participating jurisdiction.(e) "American vessel" means any vessel documented or numbered under the laws of the United States, and includes any vessel which is neither documented nor numbered under the laws of the United States nor documented under the laws of any foreign country, if its crew is employed solely by one or more citizens or residents of the United States or corporations organized under the laws of the United States or of any state.(f) "Maritime service" means service rendered on or in connection with any American vessel engaged in interstate or foreign operations by an officer or member of its crew entirely performed within the United States, or performed under a contract of service which is entered into within the United States or during the performance of which the vessel touches at a port in the United States, if the employee is employed on and in connection with such vessel when outside the United States, except services performed by any person on vessels in the categories set forth below:(1) Vessels plying and operating wholly within the territorial limits of a single jurisdiction.(2) Vessels which enter or traverse waters outside the territorial limits of a single jurisdiction only as an incident to navigation within such jurisdiction.(3) Vessels which do not provide full subsistence facilities, include sleeping quarters for the entire crew and which traverse or travel on waters both within and without a single jurisdiction provided they dock nightly or regularly at docks or piers of such single jurisdiction.(4) Fishing vessels starting from and returning to a port within a single jurisdiction without touching ports of another jurisdiction or touching such ports solely to dispose of catch or for emergency purposes.(5) Yachts not used for commercial purposes.(g) "Jurisdiction of coverage" with respect to a vessel operated by an employing unit means that participating jurisdiction in regard to which it is determined, in accordance with the provisions of the Arrangement, that maritime services rendered on or in connection with such vessel by persons for such employing unit is deemed performed entirely within such participating jurisdiction.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 454(b)-2
1. New NOTE filed 9-3-81; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 81, No. 36). Note: Authority cited: Sections 305 and 306, Unemployment Insurance Code. Reference: Section 454, Unemployment Insurance Code.
1. New NOTE filed 9-3-81; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 81, No. 36).