§ 22-9-308 - Ascertainment of minimum prevailing wage before awarding contract -- Specification of wage rate -- Contractor's bonds. - Arkansas Statutes

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22-9-308. Ascertainment of minimum prevailing wage before awarding contract -- Specification of wage rate -- Contractor's bonds.

(a) Before any public body, excluding the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, awards a contract or begins supervised construction for public works, it shall notify the Department of Labor to ascertain the prevailing hourly rate of wages in the county in which the work is to be performed, for each craft or type of worker needed to execute the contract or project.

(b) (1) The public body shall specify in the resolution or ordinance and in the call for bids for the contract that the minimum prevailing wage rates for each craft or type of worker and the prevailing wage rate for holiday and overtime work shall be paid.

(2) There shall be included in every specification for work coming under the provisions of this subchapter the minimum prevailing wage rates for each craft or type of worker as determined by the Department of Labor, and it shall be mandatory upon the public body, if it is supervised work, or upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and upon any subcontractor under him or her, to pay not less than the specified rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the contract.

(c) The public body awarding the contract shall cause to be inserted in the contract a stipulation to the effect that not less than the prevailing hourly rate of wages as found by the Department of Labor or determined by the court on appeal shall be paid to all workers performing work under the contract.

(d) The public body awarding the contract shall require in all the contractor's bonds that the contractor include such provisions as will guarantee the faithful performance of the prevailing hourly wage clause as provided by the contract.

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22-9-308. Ascertainment of minimum prevailing wage before awarding contract -- Specification of wage rate -- Contractor's bonds.

(a) Before any public body, excluding the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, awards a contract or begins supervised construction for public works, it shall notify the Department of Labor to ascertain the prevailing hourly rate of wages in the county in which the work is to be performed, for each craft or type of worker needed to execute the contract or project.

(b) (1) The public body shall specify in the resolution or ordinance and in the call for bids for the contract that the minimum prevailing wage rates for each craft or type of worker and the prevailing wage rate for holiday and overtime work shall be paid.

(2) There shall be included in every specification for work coming under the provisions of this subchapter the minimum prevailing wage rates for each craft or type of worker as determined by the Department of Labor, and it shall be mandatory upon the public body, if it is supervised work, or upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and upon any subcontractor under him or her, to pay not less than the specified rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the contract.

(c) The public body awarding the contract shall cause to be inserted in the contract a stipulation to the effect that not less than the prevailing hourly rate of wages as found by the Department of Labor or determined by the court on appeal shall be paid to all workers performing work under the contract.

(d) The public body awarding the contract shall require in all the contractor's bonds that the contractor include such provisions as will guarantee the faithful performance of the prevailing hourly wage clause as provided by the contract.

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22-9-308. Ascertainment of minimum prevailing wage before awarding contract -- Specification of wage rate -- Contractor's bonds.

(a) Before any public body, excluding the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, awards a contract or begins supervised construction for public works, it shall notify the Department of Labor to ascertain the prevailing hourly rate of wages in the county in which the work is to be performed, for each craft or type of worker needed to execute the contract or project.

(b) (1) The public body shall specify in the resolution or ordinance and in the call for bids for the contract that the minimum prevailing wage rates for each craft or type of worker and the prevailing wage rate for holiday and overtime work shall be paid.

(2) There shall be included in every specification for work coming under the provisions of this subchapter the minimum prevailing wage rates for each craft or type of worker as determined by the Department of Labor, and it shall be mandatory upon the public body, if it is supervised work, or upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and upon any subcontractor under him or her, to pay not less than the specified rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the contract.

(c) The public body awarding the contract shall cause to be inserted in the contract a stipulation to the effect that not less than the prevailing hourly rate of wages as found by the Department of Labor or determined by the court on appeal shall be paid to all workers performing work under the contract.

(d) The public body awarding the contract shall require in all the contractor's bonds that the contractor include such provisions as will guarantee the faithful performance of the prevailing hourly wage clause as provided by the contract.