68-2317. Highway contracts; providing for prevailing wages.

68-2317

Chapter 68.--ROADS AND BRIDGES
PART III.--MISCELLANEOUS
Article 23.--EXPRESS HIGHWAYS AND FREEWAYS

      68-2317.   Highway contracts; providing for prevailing wages.(a) Contracts entered into by the secretary of transportation fornonfederal aid state-funded projects shallbe based on bid specifications prescribing that employees of any contractoror subcontractor shall be paid in accordance with prevailing wagesdetermined in accordance with wage areas, job classifications and wagerates determined under the federal Davis-Bacon act.

      (b)   Employees employed by contractors or subcontractors in the executionof nonfederal aid state-funded highway project contracts with the state ofKansas entered into by the secretary of transportation shall be paid atleast the prevailing wage as determined in subsection (a).

      (c)   The secretary of transportation shall administer the provisions of this section.

      History:   L. 1989, ch. 209, § 4; July 1.