Section 220-D. Minimum rate of wage and supplement  


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  • The  advertised
      specifications for every contract for the construction,  reconstruction,
      maintenance  and/or  repair  of  public work to which the state, county,
      town and/or village is a party shall contain  a  provision  stating  the
      minimum hourly rate of wage which can be paid and the minimum supplement
      that  can  be  provided,  as  shall  be  designated  by  the  industrial
      commissioner, to the laborers, workingmen or mechanics employed  in  the
      performance of the contract, either by the contractor, sub-contractor or
      other  person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work
      contemplated  by  the  contract,  and  the  contract  shall  contain   a
      stipulation  that  such  laborers, workingmen or mechanics shall be paid
      not less than such hourly minimum rate of wage and provided  supplements
      not less than the prevailing supplements.
        Any  person or corporation that wilfully pays after entering into such
      contract,  less  than  such  stipulated  minimums  regarding  wages  and
      supplements  shall  be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall
      be punished, for a first offense by a fine of five hundred dollars or by
      imprisonment for not  more  than  thirty  days,  or  by  both  fine  and
      imprisonment;  for  a  second offense by a fine of one thousand dollars,
      and in addition thereto the contract on which the violation has occurred
      shall be forfeited; and no such person or corporation shall be  entitled
      to receive any sum nor shall any officer, agent or employee of the state
      pay the same or authorize its payment from the funds under his charge or
      control to any person or corporation for work done upon any contract, on
      which  the  contractor has been convicted of second offense in violation
      of the provisions of this section.