Not less than the general prevailing rate of hourly wages for work of similar character on public works and the locality in which the work is performed and not less than the general prevailing rate of hourly wages for legal holidays and overtime work shall be paid to all laborers, workers and mechanics employed by or on behalf of any public body engaged in the construction of public works, exclusive of maintenance work. Only those laborers, workers and mechanics as are directly employed by the contractors or subcontractors and actual construction work on the site of the building or construction job, and laborers, workers and mechanics engaged in the transportation of materials and equipment to or from the site, but not including the transportation by the sellers and suppliers of the manufacture or processing of materials or equipment, in the execution of any contract or contracts for public works with any public body shall be deemed to be employed upon public works.
(1986 Code, § 30.01.010) (Ord. 1384, passed - -1992)