2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 337 - WAGES AND HOURS 337.510 Public authority's duties as to inclusion of prevailing wage in proposals and contracts.
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337.510 Public authority's duties as to inclusion of prevailing wage in proposals
and contracts.
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Before advertising for bids or entering into any contract for construction of public
works, every public authority shall notify the department in writing of the specific
public work to be constructed, and shall ascertain from the department the
prevailing rates of wages for each classification of laborers, workmen, and
mechanics for the class of work called for in the construction of such public works
in the locality where the work is to be performed. This schedule of the prevailing
rate of wages shall include a statement that it has been determined in accordance
with the provisions of KRS 337.505 to 337.550 and shall be attached to and made
part of the specifications for the work and shall be printed on the bidding blanks and
made a part of every contract for the construction of public works.
The public authority advertising and awarding the contract shall cause to be inserted
in the proposal and contract a stipulation to the effect that not less than the
prevailing hourly rate of wages as determined by the commissioner shall be paid to
all laborers, workmen, and mechanics performing work under the contract. It shall
also 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 contract. It shall be the duty of the public authority awarding the
contract, and its agents and officers, to take cognizance of all complaints of all
violations of the provisions of KRS 337.505 to 337.550 committed in the course of
the execution of the contract, and when making payments to the contractor
becoming due under the contract, to withhold, and retain therefrom all sums and
amounts due and owing as a result of any violation thereof. It shall be lawful for any
contractor to withhold from any subcontractor under him sufficient sums to cover
any penalties withheld from him by the awarding authority, on account of the
subcontractor's failure to comply with the terms thereof and if payment has already
been made to him or her, the contractor may recover from him or her the amount of
the penalty in a suit at law.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1741, effective July 15, 2010. -Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 341, sec. 3. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 33, sec. 3. -Amended 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 56, sec. 1, effective June 16, 1960. -- Recodified 1942
Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2290c-2.
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