42 USC § 5046 - Labor standards for federally assisted projects, buildings, and works

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title: "42 USC § 5046 - Labor standards for federally assisted projects, buildings, and works"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "5046"
section_name: "Labor standards for federally assisted projects, buildings, and works"
chapter_number: 66
chapter_name: "DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "IV"
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# § 5046. Labor standards for federally assisted projects, buildings, and works

64 Stat. 1267section 3145 of title 40

All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in the construction, alteration or repair, including painting and decorating of projects, buildings and works which are federally assisted under this chapter shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40. The Secretary of Labor shall have, with respect to such labor standards, the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Number 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176; ) and in .

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 93–113, title IV, § 406, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 410.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning , , , known as the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under  and Tables.

Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950, referred to in text, is set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

### Codification

In text, “sections 3141–3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40” substituted for “the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (—276a–5)” and “” substituted for “, as amended (, ch. 492, as amended; )”, on authority of , , , the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.