N.Y. Labor Law § 220-d: Minimum rate of wage and supplement

§ 220-d. Minimum rate of wage and supplement. The advertised

specifications for every contract for the construction, reconstruction,

maintenance and/or repair of public work to which the state, county,

town and/or village is a party shall contain a provision stating the

minimum hourly rate of wage which can be paid and the minimum supplement

that can be provided, as shall be designated by the industrial

commissioner, to the laborers, workingmen or mechanics employed in the

performance of the contract, either by the contractor, sub-contractor or

other person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work

contemplated by the contract, and the contract shall contain a

stipulation that such laborers, workingmen or mechanics shall be paid

not less than such hourly minimum rate of wage and provided supplements

not less than the prevailing supplements.

Any person or corporation that wilfully pays after entering into such

contract, less than such stipulated minimums regarding wages and

supplements shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall

be punished, for a first offense by a fine of five hundred dollars or by

imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both fine and

imprisonment; for a second offense by a fine of one thousand dollars,

and in addition thereto the contract on which the violation has occurred

shall be forfeited; and no such person or corporation shall be entitled

to receive any sum nor shall any officer, agent or employee of the state

pay the same or authorize its payment from the funds under his charge or

control to any person or corporation for work done upon any contract, on

which the contractor has been convicted of second offense in violation

of the provisions of this section.