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Title 40 — Public Buildings, Property, and Works

Chapter 147 — Miscellaneous

§ 14701. Applicable labor standards

Statutory text

All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in the construction, alteration, or repair, including painting and decorating, of projects, buildings, and works which are financially assisted through federal amounts authorized under this subtitle shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as the Secretary of Labor determines in accordance with sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of this title. With respect to those labor standards, the Secretary has the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (eff. , 64 Stat. 1267) and section 3145 of this title.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 107–217 · 116 Stat. 1062

    Enacted · 40 U.S.C. § 14701

    (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1278.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1278.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

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Historical and Revision Notes
RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
1470140 App.:402.Pub. L. 89–4, title IV, § 402, Mar. 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 21.

The reference to 40:276(c) should be to 40:276c, restated as section 3145 of the revised title.

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950, referred to in text, is Reorg. Plan No. 14 of 1950, eff. , 15 F.R. 3176, 64 Stat. 1267, which is set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Credits

(Pub. L. 107–217, , 116 Stat. 1278.)

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