§373L-4 Exemptions. A person who engages only in the following activities shall not be deemed a professional employer organization for purposes of this chapter and shall be exempt from the requirements of this chapter: (1) Arrangements wherein a person, whose principal business activity is not entering into professional employer arrangements and who does not hold the person's self out as a professional employer organization, shares employees with a commonly-owned company within the meaning of [section] 414(b) and (c) of the Internal Revenue Code; (2) Independent contractor arrangements by which a person assumes responsibility for the product produced or service performed by the person or the person's agents and retains and exercises primary direction and control over the work performed by the individuals whose services are supplied under those arrangements; or (3) The providing of temporary help services. [L 2010, c 129, pt of §1]
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