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Texas Water Code § 49.279

Prevailing Wage Rates

Provisions Applicable to All Districts · Construction, Equipment, Materials, and Machinery Contracts

In addition to the alternative procedures provided by Section 2258.022, Government Code:

(1) a district located wholly or partially within one or more municipalities or within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of one or more municipalities may determine its prevailing wage rate for public works by adopting the prevailing wage rate of:

(A) one of the municipalities; or

(B) the county in which the district is located or, if the county in which the district is located has not adopted a wage rate, the prevailing wage rate of a county adjacent to the county in which the district is located; and

(2) a district not located wholly or partially within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality may determine the district's prevailing wage rate by adopting the prevailing wage rate of the county in which the district is located or, if the county in which the district is located has not adopted a wage rate, the wage rate of a county adjacent to the county in which the district is located.

Official text of the Texas Water Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

Official source
Legislative history

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1423, Sec. 19, eff. June 17, 2001.

Other codes referenced

Gov't § 2258.022