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Copeland Act Regulations
<br />Title 29 - LABOR
<br />Subtitle A- Office of the
<br />Secretary of Labor
<br />PART 3 - CONTRACTORS AND
<br />SUBCONTRACTORS ON PUBLIC
<br />BUtLDING OR PUBLIC WORK
<br />FINANCED IN WHOLE OR IN
<br />PART BY LOANS OR GRANTS
<br />FROM THE UNITED STATES
<br />Sec.
<br />3.1 Purpose and scope
<br />3.2 Definitions
<br />3.3 Weekly statement with respect to payment of wages
<br />3.4 Submission of weekly statements and the preservation and inspection of weekly payroll records.
<br />3.5 Payroll deductions permissible without application to or approval of the Secretary of Labor.
<br />3.6 Payroll deductions permissibie with the approval of the Secretary of Labor.
<br />3.7 Applications for the approval of the Secretary of Labor
<br />3.8 Action by the Secretary of Labor upon applications.
<br />3.9 Prohibited payroll deductions.
<br />3.10 Methods of payment of wages.
<br />3.11 Regulations part of contract. AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 3 issued under R.S. 161, sec. 2, 48 Stat. §48; Reorg. Plan No. 14 of 1950,
<br />64 Stat. 1267, 5 U.S.C. Appendix; 5 U.S.C. 301; 40 U.S.C. 276c.
<br />SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 3 appear at 29 F.R. 97, Jan. 4, 1964, unless otherwise noted.
<br />Section 3.1 Purpose and Scope.
<br />This part prescribes "anti-kickback" regulations under section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 U.S.C.
<br />276c), popularly known as the Copeland Act. This part applies to any contract which is subject to Federal wage standards
<br />and which is for the construction, prosecution, completion, or repair of public buildings, public works or buildings or works
<br />financed in whole or in
<br />part by loans or grants from the United States. The part is intended to aid in the enforcement of the minimum wage
<br />provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act and the various statutes dealing with Federally-assisted constniction that contain
<br />similar minimum wage provisions, including those provisions which are not subject to Reorganization Plan No. 14 (e.g.,
<br />the College Housing Act of 1950, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and the Housing Act of 1959), and in the
<br />enforcement of the overtime provisions of the Contract Work Hours Standards Act whenever they are applicable to
<br />construction work. The part details the obligation of contractors and subcontractors relative to the weekly submission of
<br />statements regarding the wages paid on work covered thereby; sets forth the circumstances and procedures governing
<br />the making o# payroll deductions from the wages of those employed on such work; and delineates the methods of
<br />payment permissible on such work.
<br />Section 3.2 Definitions.
<br />As used in the regulations in this part:
<br />(a) The terms "building" or "work" generally include construction activity as distinguished from manufacturing,
<br />furnishing of materials, or senricing and maintenance work. The terms include, without limitation, buildings, structures,
<br />and improvements of all types, such as bridges, dams, plants, highways, parkways, streets, subways, tunnels, sewers,
<br />mains, power lines, pumping stations, railways, airports, terminals, docks, piers, wharves, ways, lighthouses, buoys,
<br />jetties, breakwaters, levees, and canals; dredging, shoring, scaffolding, drilling, blasting, excavating, clearing, and
<br />landscaping. Unless conducted in connection with and at the site of such a building or work as is described in the
<br />foregoing sentence, the manufacture or furnishing of materials, articles, supplies, or equipment (whether or not a Federal
<br />or State agency acquires title to such materials, aRicles, supplies, or equipment during the course of the manufacture or
<br />furnishing, or owns the materials from which they are manufactured or furnished) is not a"building" or "work" within the
<br />meaning of the regulations in this part.
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