(A) Landscape maintenance work is not subject to the prevailing wage rates of § 52.01.
LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE WORK
is generally defined as work performed in connection with the general maintenance of existing lawns, vegetation and landscaped areas such as lawn mowing and grass cutting, tree and shrub pruning, the planting of annuals, the replacement of pre-existing shrubs and trees, grass seeding and fertilizing and herbicide application, laving sod, and the planting of trees and shrubs. Landscape maintenance work shall not include landscape construction work.
(B) Landscape construction work is generally defined as any and all work performed by a landscape contractor, including any of its laborers, foremen, drivers and operators in connection with contracts for:
(1) The original installation of any landscaping materials as part of any new construction projects;
(2) Landscaping done in connection with any road, boulevard, street, highway, bridge, park, sewer or underground utility construction project;
(3) Lawn and landscape restoration where there has been construction involving trenches and manholes, pipes, cables and conduits;
(4) The preparation and landscaping of approaches associated with construction involving shafts, tunnels, subways and sewers;
(5) The landscaping of the old and new site where underpinning, lagging, bracing, propping and shoring has occurred; and
(6) Landscaping associated with construction involving general excavation and grading and the general landscaping of sites of demolished structures. Landscape construction work is covered by the prevailing wage rates of § 52.01.
(Ord. CO-2012-55, passed 7-17-2012)