The provisions of that certain Act of the Legislature of the State of California entitled, “An act to provide for the payment of not less than the general prevailing rate of wages on public works, and not less than the general prevailing rate of wages for legal holiday and overtime work or public works, provided for the ascertainment of such general prevailing rate by the public body awarding the contract and its insertion in the contract and call for bids for the contract, providing for the keeping of records of the wages paid all workers engaged in public work and the inspection of such records by the proper public officials, providing for a forfeiture for each calendar day, or portion thereof, any worker is paid less than the said rate and for a stipulation to this effect in the contract, and providing other penalties for violation of the provisions thereof” (approved May 25, 1931, Statutes, 1931, Chapter 397), as amended or as hereafter shall be amended, are hereby accepted and made applicable to the City of Los Angeles, its departments, boards, officers, agents and employees notwithstanding the exemption of said City therefrom created by Section 5 of Article XI of the Constitution of the State of California with respect to municipal affairs.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Charter Sec. 425.
Amended by: Ord. No. 154,252, Eff. 9-11-80; First unnumbered para. repealed, Ord. No. 158,965, Eff. 6-30-84.