HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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for liquidated damages in an amount equal to [ten dollars
($10.00)] $10 per day for each such violation. Each
violation each day constitutes a separate offense.

(e) On any public works to which this subtitle
applies, only competent workmen and apprentices of the
trades, crafts, and occupations shall be employed by the
contractor and all subcontractors on the public works,
provided that the use of apprentices, for each craft
involved, shall conform to the apprenticeship programs
approved by the Bureau of Apprenticeship Training of the
U.S. Department of Labor, and as registered with the
Maryland Apprenticeship Council, Department of Labor and
Industry.

[97A.] 8-503.

[(1)] (A) A contractor or subcontractor on any public
works to which this subtitle applies may refuse to employ
workmen who are residents of any state which the
Commissioner finds enforces laws that prohibit Maryland
residents from employment as workmen on public works in that
state.

[(2)] (B) Any provision of this section that conflicts
or is otherwise inconsistent with any federal law, rule, or
regulation applicable to a project or activity, the cost of
which the federal government is to pay or reimburse in whole
or part, and that because of the inconsistency, jeopardizes
the availability of federal funds, does not apply to the
project or activity.

[98.] 8-504.

(a) Every public body authorized to contract for
public works, before advertising for bids OR PROPOSALS,
shall request the Commissioner to determine the prevailing
rates of wages for workmen and apprentices for the class or
type of work called for by the public works, in the locality
the work is to be performed. The Commissioner shall
determine the prevailing hourly rate of wages, including the
prevailing rate of wages for overtime work which shall in no
event be less than time and a half the prevailing hourly
rate of wages for straight time, for work of the same or a
similar character in the locality in which the work is to be
performed for the various classifications of workmen and
apprentices required to execute the contemplated contract,
and such determination or schedule of the prevailing hourly
rate of wages shall be attached to and made a part of the
specifications and the contract for the work. If there is
not a substantial number of competent workmen engaged in
work of the same or a similar character within the locality
as established by the Commissioner, the Commissioner shall
use the nearest established locality from which such workmen
may be obtained in sufficient numbers to perform the work to
make the determination. The Commissioner shall forthwith
give notice by mail of all determinations of prevailing wage