OAR 839-025-0155: Payment of Prevailing Rate of Wage for the Installation of Art on Public Works Projects

(1) Workers engaged in the installation of art necessary to the structural integrity of the public work, as defined in these rules, must be paid no less than the applicable prevailing rate of wage as determined by the Commissioner. (2) Workers engaged in the installation of applied art, as defined in these rules, are not required to be paid the prevailing rate of wage when such work is the only work in which the worker is engaged while employed on the public work project. Such work is considered de minimus as defined in these rules. (3) Any artist whose primary duties consist of those described in OAR 839-025-0150(1)(b) is not required to be paid the prevailing rate of wage, even when the artist is engaged in the installation of art necessary to the structural integrity of the public work when the art is of the artist’s own creation.