1551.13 Laborers and mechanics shall be paid at prevailing rates of wages.

1551.13 Laborers and mechanics shall be paid at prevailing rates of wages.

The director of development shall not enter into any agreement for undertaking or making grants of any funds or otherwise participate in any project or energy resource development facility unless the agreement or the contract, resolution, or other written document setting forth the participation of the department of development specifies that all wages paid to laborers and mechanics employed for construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, alteration, repair, painting, decorating, or rehabilitation on any such project or facility shall be paid at the prevailing rates of wages of laborers and mechanics for the class of work called for by the project or facility, which wages shall be determined in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code for determination of prevailing wage rates, provided that the requirements of this section do not apply where the federal government or any of its agencies furnishes by loan or grant all or any part of the funds used in connection with any such project or facility and prescribes predetermined minimum wages to be paid to such laborers and mechanics, and provided further that should the user-beneficiary, other than a public authority, of the project or facility undertake, as part of the project or facility, construction to be performed by its regular bargaining unit employees who are covered under a collective bargaining agreement which was in existence prior to the date of the commitment instrument setting forth the department’s participation, then, and in that event, the rate of pay under the collective bargaining agreement may be paid to such employees.

Effective Date: 10-17-1985