39-51-2101. Total unemployment -- when. An individual is considered to be totally unemployed in any week during which the individual:
     (1) did not perform any work in employment and did not earn any wages for employment; or
     (2) worked less than the customary hours that are normal for the individual's particular occupation due to a lack of work and provided that the wages payable to the individual are less than two times the individual's weekly benefit amount.

     History: En. Subd. (n) to (r), Sec. 19, Ch. 137, L. 1937; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 137, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 164, L. 1941; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 233, L. 1943; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 190, L. 1945; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 238, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 171, L. 1957; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 156, L. 1961; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 269, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 200, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 33, Ch. 368, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 115, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 87-149(a)(1); amd. Sec. 14, Ch. 234, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 400, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 88, L. 2009.