§ 22-9-312 - Termination of contractor upon failure to pay wage rate -- Void contracts. - Arkansas Statutes

22-9-312. Termination of contractor upon failure to pay wage rate -- Void contracts.

(a) Every contract within the scope of this subchapter shall contain the provision that in the event it is found by the contracting officer or public body that any laborer or mechanic employed by the public body or by the contractor or subcontractor, if any, directly on the site of the work covered by the contract has been or is being paid a rate of wages less than the rate of wages required by the contract to be paid, the public body concerned may, by written notice to the contractor, terminate the contractor's right to proceed with the work or such part of the work as to which there has been a failure to pay the required wages and to prosecute the work to completion by contract or otherwise, and the contractor and his or her sureties shall be liable to the public body concerned for any excess costs occasioned thereby.

(b) Any contract made and entered into within the scope of this subchapter in violation thereof shall be void.