674 - Regulations.

§   674.   Regulations.   1.  The  commissioner  may  promulgate  such  regulations as he deems appropriate to carry out the  purposes  of  this  article  and  to  safeguard minimum wage standards. Such regulations may  include, but are not limited to, the defining of  the  circumstances  or  conditions  for  the  acceptance  of non-hourly rates and piece rates as  equivalent to the minimum hourly rates established by this article. Such  regulations also may include, but are not limited to, waiting  time  and  call-in  pay rates; wage provisions governing guaranteed earnings during  specified periods of work; allowances  for  meals,  lodging,  and  other  items,  services  and facilities when furnished by the employer; and the  employment of individuals whose earning capacity is affected or impaired  by youth or age, or by physical or mental deficiency  or  injury,  under  special  certificates  issued  by  the commissioner, at such wages lower  than the minimum wage established by this article and for such period as  shall be prescribed in such regulations.    2. Such regulations may vary with localities if in the judgment of the  commissioner conditions make such variation appropriate.    3. Such regulations shall be promulgated by the commissioner  after  a  public hearing held after due notice.    A notice of the public hearing and a notice of the promulgation of any  such  regulation shall be published in the state bulletin. The notice of  the promulgation of any such regulation  shall  be  published  at  least  twenty days before the effective date of the regulation.