Title 40 — Public Buildings, Property, and Works
Part A · Chapter 31 — General
§ 3141. Definitions
Statutory text
In this subchapter, the following definitions apply:
Federal government.—
The term “Federal Government” has the same meaning that the term “United States” had in the Act of (ch. 411, 46 Stat. 1494) (known as the Davis-Bacon Act).
Wages, scale of wages, wage rates, minimum wages, and prevailing wages.—
The terms “wages”, “scale of wages”, “wage rates”, “minimum wages”, and “prevailing wages” include—
the basic hourly rate of pay; and
for medical or hospital care, pensions on retirement or death, compensation for injuries or illness resulting from occupational activity, or insurance to provide any of the forgoing, for unemployment benefits, life insurance, disability and sickness insurance, or accident insurance, for vacation and holiday pay, for defraying the costs of apprenticeship or other similar programs, or for other bona fide fringe benefits, but only where the contractor or subcontractor is not required by other federal, state, or local law to provide any of those benefits, the amount of—
the rate of contribution irrevocably made by a contractor or subcontractor to a trustee or to a third person under a fund, plan, or program; and
the rate of costs to the contractor or subcontractor that may be reasonably anticipated in providing benefits to laborers and mechanics pursuant to an enforceable commitment to carry out a financially responsible plan or program which was communicated in writing to the laborers and mechanics affected.
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.
Pub. L. 107–217 · 116 Stat. 1062
Enacted · 40 U.S.C. § 3141
Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1150
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1150Pub. L. 109–284 § 6(11) · 120 Stat. 1211
Substituted · 40 U.S.C. § 3141(1)
Pub. L. 109–284 substituted “1494)” for “1494”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Par. (1). Pub. L. 109–284 substituted “1494)” for “1494”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(11) In section 3141(1), strike “1494” and substitute “1494)”.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
historicalAndRevision
| Historical and Revision Notes | ||
|---|---|---|
| RevisedSection | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 3141(1) | (no source). | |
| 3141(2) | 40:276a(b) (1st par. words before proviso). | Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 411, § 1(b) (1st par. words before proviso), as added Pub. L. 88–349, § 1, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 239. |
Clause (1) is added for clarity.
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Davis-Bacon Act, referred to in par. (1), is act of Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 411, 46 Stat. 1494, which was classified generally to sections 276a to 276a–5 of former Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, and was repealed and reenacted as sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of this title by Pub. L. 107–217, §§ 1, 6(b), , 116 Stat. 1062, 1304. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Amendments
2006—Par. (1). Pub. L. 109–284 substituted “1494)” for “1494”.
Credits
2002–2006 · 2 acts
- 2002Pub. L. 107–217, , 116 Stat. 1150
- 2006Pub. L. 109–284, § 6(11), , 120 Stat. 1213.
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(Pub. L. 107–217, , 116 Stat. 1150; Pub. L. 109–284, § 6(11), , 120 Stat. 1213.)