Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 12A — Boulder Canyon Project
§ 618n. Wages of employees
Statutory text
All laborers and mechanics employed in the construction of any part of the project, or in the operation, maintenance, or replacement of any part of the Hoover Dam, shall be paid not less than the prevailing rate of wages or compensation for work of a similar nature prevailing in the locality of the project. In the event any dispute arises as to what are the prevailing rates, the determination thereof shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior, and his decision, subject to the concurrence of the Secretary of Labor, shall be final.
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. 76–643 § 15 · 54 Stat. 774
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 618n
July 19, 1940, ch. 643, § 15, 54 Stat. 779
Source evidence
Code source credit
July 19, 1940, ch. 643, § 15, 54 Stat. 779Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 15. All laborers and mechanics employed in the construction Wage rates for laborers, etc. of any part of the project, or in the operation, maintenance, or replacement of any part of the Boulder Dam, shall be paid not less than the prevailing rate of wages or compensation for work of a similar nature prevailing in the locality of the project. In the event any dispute arises as to what are the prevailing rates, the determination thereof shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior, and his decision, subject to the concurrence of the Secretary of Labor, shall be final.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Hoover Dam” substituted in text for “Boulder Dam” on authority of act , which changed name of Boulder Dam to Hoover Dam.
Credits
1940–1947 · 2 acts
- 1940July 19, 1940, ch. 643, § 15, 54 Stat. 779
- 1947Apr. 30, 1947, ch. 46, 61 Stat. 56.
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(July 19, 1940, ch. 643, § 15, 54 Stat. 779; Apr. 30, 1947, ch. 46, 61 Stat. 56.)