California Code of Regulations › Title 22 - Social Security › Division 1 - Employment Development Department › Subdivision 1 - Director of Employment Development › Division 1 - Unemployment and Disability Compensation › Part 1 - Unemployment Compensation › Chapter 2 - Administration › Article 4 - INTERSTATE AND FEDERAL COOPERATION › Section 454(b)-2 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
As 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.