40 U.S.C. § 3145
Section 3145 · Regulations governing contractors and subcontractors
This is the Davis-Bacon Act
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case County of Santa Clara v. Astra USA, Inc. (2009)
Most recently applied in Sorenson v. Wadsworth Brothers Construct (September 2022)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) In General.—The Secretary of Labor shall prescribe reasonable regulations for contractors and subcontractors engaged in constructing, carrying out, completing, or repairing public buildings, public works, or buildings or works that at least partly are financed by a loan or grant from the Federal Government. The regulations shall include a provision that each contractor and subcontractor each week must furnish a statement on the wages paid each employee during the prior week.
(b) Application.—Section 1001 of title 18 applies to the statements.