---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 22.403-1"
title: "48"
number: "22.403-1"
heading: "Construction Wage Rate Requirements statute."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/22.403-1"
---

# §22.403-1. Construction Wage Rate Requirements statute.


40 U.S.C. chapter 31, subchapter IV, Wage Rate Requirements (Construction), formerly known as the Davis-Bacon Act, provides that contracts in excess of $2,000 to which the United States or the District of Columbia is a party for construction, alteration, or repair (including painting and decorating) of public buildings or public works within the United States, shall contain a clause (see 52.222-6) that no laborer or mechanic employed directly upon the site of the work shall receive less than the prevailing wage rates as determined by the Secretary of Labor.


## Notes

### Amendments

[79 FR 24203, Apr. 29, 2014]

### Source

Source: 53 FR 4935, Feb. 18, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 41 U.S.C. 1121(b); 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 42258, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[79 FR 24203, Apr. 29, 2014]