TITLE 44

LABOR

CHAPTER 10

PUBLIC WORKS

44-1001.  Employment of residents of Idaho — Wage scale — Federal funds. In all state, county, municipal, and school construction, repair, and maintenance work under any of the laws of this state the contractor, or person in charge thereof must employ ninety-five percent (95%) bona fide Idaho residents as employees on any such contracts except for procurement authorized in section 67-2808(2), Idaho Code, or where under such contracts fifty (50) or less persons are employed the contractor may employ ten percent (10%) nonresidents, provided however, in such a case employers must give preference to the employment of bona fide Idaho residents in the performance of such work; provided, that in work involving the expenditure of federal aid funds this act shall not be enforced in such a manner as to conflict with or be contrary to the federal statutes prescribing a labor preference to honorably discharged members of the United States armed forces, including airmen, soldiers, sailors, and marines, prohibiting as unlawful any other preference or discrimination among the citizens of the United States.

History:

[(44-1001) 1933, ch. 111, sec. 1, added 1935, ch. 140, sec. 1, p. 346; am. 1939, ch. 33, sec. 1, p. 70; am. 1985, ch. 3, sec. 1, p. 7; am. 2013, ch. 344, sec. 1, p. 928; am. 2014, ch. 149, sec. 1, p. 412.]