Awarding contract or payment without wage rate determination prohibited
Before a government body can give out a contract for public construction work or pay money for that work, it must first get the proper wage rates set by the department for the area where the work will happen. Those wage rates must be included in the contract paperwork before any deal is made.
290.325. ing contract or payment without prohibited. — No , officer, official, member, or thereof to contract for shall award a contract for the construction of such improvement or disburse any funds on account of the construction of such public improvement, unless such public body has first had the determine the rates of wages required to be paid in the where the work is to be performed and such has been made a part of the and contract for such public works.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1969 S.B. 142, A.L. 2018 H.B. 1729, et al.)
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