Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 80 — Public Works Employment
§ 6728. Wage standards for laborers and mechanics; enforcement
Statutory text
All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors on all construction projects funded in whole or in part by payments under this subchapter shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar projects in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40. The Secretary of Labor shall have, with respect to the labor standards specified in this section, the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 and section 3145 of title 40.
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.
Public Works Employment Act of 1976
Pub. L. 94–369 title II § 208 · 90 Stat. 999
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 6728
(Pub. L. 94–369, title II, § 208, July 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 1008.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 94–369, title II, § 208, July 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 1008.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 208. labor standards All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors on all construction projects funded in whole or in part by payments under this title shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar projects in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 276a to 276a–5). The Secretary of Labor shall have, with respect to the labor standards specified in this section, the authority and functions set 5 USC app. I. forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 C.F.R. 3176) and section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276c).
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950, referred to in text, is set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Codification
In text, “sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40” substituted for “the Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 276a to 276a–5)” and “section 3145 of title 40” substituted for “section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276c)”, on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), , 116 Stat. 1303, the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.