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SENATE BILL 5662
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Senators Anderson and Barr.
Read first time February 13, 1991. Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.
AN ACT Relating to prevailing wage; and amending RCW 39.12.020.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 39.12.020 and 1989 c 12 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
The hourly wages to be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics, upon all public works estimated to cost more than one hundred thousand dollars and under all public building service maintenance contracts of the state or any county, municipality or political subdivision created by its laws, shall be not less than the prevailing rate of wage for an hour's work in the same trade or occupation in the locality within the state where such labor is performed.
For a
contract in excess of ((ten)) one hundred thousand dollars, a
contractor required to pay the prevailing rate of wage shall post in a location
readily visible to workers at the job site: PROVIDED, That on road
construction, sewer line, pipeline, transmission line, street, or alley
improvement projects for which no field office is needed or established, a
contractor may post the prevailing rate of wage statement at the contractor's
local office, gravel crushing, concrete, or asphalt batch plant as long as the
contractor provides a copy of the wage statement to any employee on request:
(1) A copy of a statement of intent to pay prevailing wages approved by the industrial statistician of the department of labor and industries under RCW 39.12.040; and
(2) The address and telephone number of the industrial statistician of the department of labor and industries where a complaint or inquiry concerning prevailing wages may be made.
This chapter shall not apply to workers or other persons regularly employed on monthly or per diem salary by the state, or any county, municipality, or political subdivision created by its laws.