Senate Bill No. 195–Committee on Government Affairs

 

(On Behalf of the Nevada League of
Cities and Municipalities)

 

February 24, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs

 

SUMMARY—Expands exemption from requirements concerning payment of prevailing wage for certain contracts for public works. (BDR 28‑341)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.

                           Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to public works; expanding the exemption from the requirements concerning the payment of the prevailing wage for certain contracts for public works; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1  Section 1. NRS 338.080 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2  338.080  None of the provisions of NRS 338.020 to 338.090,

1-3  inclusive, apply to:

1-4  1.  Any work, construction, alteration, repair or other

1-5  employment performed, undertaken or carried out, by or for any

1-6  railroad company or any person operating the same, whether such

1-7  work, construction, alteration or repair is incident to or in

1-8  conjunction with a contract to which this state or [any of its political

1-9  subdivisions] a local government is a party, or otherwise.

1-10      2.  Apprentices recorded under the provisions of chapter 610 of

1-11  NRS.

1-12      3.  Any contract for a public work [whose] awarded by a local

1-13  government in a county whose population is 100,000 or more, or

1-14  by the State of Nevada, for which the estimated cost is less than

2-1  $100,000. A unit of the project must not be separated from the total

2-2  project, even if that unit is to be completed at a later time, in order to

2-3  lower the estimated cost of the project below $100,000.

2-4  4.  Any contract for a public work awarded by a local

2-5  government in a county whose population is less than 100,000 for

2-6  which the estimated cost is less than $300,000. A unit of the

2-7  project must not be separated from the total project, even if that

2-8  unit is to be completed at a later time, in order to lower the

2-9  estimated cost of the project below $300,000.

2-10      Sec. 2.  NRS 279.500 is hereby amended to read as follows:

2-11      279.500  1.  The provisions of NRS 338.010 to 338.090,

2-12  inclusive, apply to any contract for new construction, repair or

2-13  reconstruction which is awarded on or after October 1, 1991, by an

2-14  agency for work to be done in a project.

2-15      2.  If an agency provides property for development at less than

2-16  the fair market value of the property, or provides financial

2-17  incentives to the developer with a value of more than [$100,000,]

2-18  the applicable amount set forth in subsection 3 or 4 of NRS

2-19  338.080, the agency must provide in the agreement with the

2-20  developer that the development project is subject to the provisions

2-21  of NRS 338.010 to 338.090, inclusive, to the same extent as if the

2-22  agency had awarded the contract for the project. This subsection

2-23  applies only to the project covered by the agreement between the

2-24  agency and the developer. This subsection does not apply to future

2-25  development of the property unless additional financial incentives

2-26  with a value of more than [$100,000] the applicable amount set

2-27  forth in subsection 3 or 4 of NRS 338.080 are provided to the

2-28  developer.

 

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