2018 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 27 - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
CHAPTER 4 - WAGES
ARTICLE 4 - PREVAILING WAGES
SECTION 27-4-402 - Definitions.
27-4-402. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Construction" includes construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, alteration or repair of any public improvement fairly estimated to cost one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) or more;
(ii) "Director" shall mean the director of the department or his designee;
(iii) "Prevailing hourly rate of wages" means the wages paid generally to and the associated customary and usual fringe benefit costs paid on behalf of workers engaged in work of a similar character;
(iv) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 145, § 2.
(v) "Maintenance work" means the repair, but not the replacement, of existing facilities when the size, type or extent of the existing facilities is not thereby changed or increased;
(vi) "Public body" means the state of Wyoming or any officer, board or commission of the state;
(vii) "Public works" means all fixed works constructed for public use, whether or not done under public supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of public funds or assessment of property owners or rights users;
(viii) "Workmen" means laborers, workmen and mechanics employed directly upon the actual construction site by contractors or subcontractors or the public body;
(ix) "Locality" for public heavy, highway projects and public building projects means the following districts wherein the physical work is performed:
(A) For federal highway and construction projects:
(I) The entire state of Wyoming excluding any area defined as a metropolitan statistical area pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 3504(e)(3) and 31 U.S.C. 1104(d);
(II) Any area defined as a metropolitan statistical area pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 3504(e)(3) and 31 U.S.C. 1104(d).
(B) For state only heavy and highway projects, the entire state of Wyoming;
(C) For public building projects, the entire state of Wyoming.
(x) "Department" means the department of workforce services;
(xi) "This act" means W.S. 27-4-401 through 27-4-413.
