Mo. Code Regs. tit. 8 § 30-3.040

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 9, May 1, 2024
Section 8 CSR 30-3.040 - Classifications of Construction Work

PURPOSE: This amendment implements statutory changes to the Missouri Prevailing Wage Law enacted by the passage of HB 1729 (2018).

(1) All public works construction, for which the prevailing hourly rate of wages or the public works contracting minimum wage of workers are to be determined, shall be classified as either-
(A) Building construction; or
(B) Highway and heavy construction.
(2) Building construction shall mean the following:
(A) Building structures, including modification, additions or repairs, or both, to be used for shelter, protection, comfort, convenience, entertainment or recreation, or for protection of people or equipment;
(B) Buildings at an airport project, such as terminal buildings, freight buildings and any other construction necessary for the operation of the airport facilities;
(C) Stadiums, athletic fields, dressing rooms, bleachers and all other buildings needed in connection with an athletic or entertainment facility;
(D) Entire buildings that are built above-ground in connection with highway, subway or tunnel projects, such as tool stations or housing for mechanical equipment;
(E) Excavation for the building itself, including backfilling inside and outside the building;
(F) Storm and sanitary sewers inside the building and to the curb line;
(G) Work in connection with telephone, electrical, water, oil, gas or fuel lines, or other utility or communication lines inside a building and to the curb line;
(H) Sidewalks other than those that are poured in connection with a street or road project;
(I) Driveways that are built to serve a building;
(J) Parking lots connected to a building and all structures built as parking facilities;
(K) Retaining walls built in conjunction with a building project;
(L) Demolition of a building(s) as part of the site preparation for new building construction;
(M) Landscaping of building sites or the planting of all shrubbery that is incidental to building construction as defined in section (2); and
(N) Work on water and wastewater treatment plants within the fence line.
(3) Highway and heavy construction shall mean the following:
(A) Work in connection with roads, streets, parkways, alleys and highways including, but not limited to, grading, paving, curbing, signs, fences, guard rails, bridges, lighting, retaining walls and landscaping;
(B) Work on viaducts, overpasses, underpasses, drainage projects, aqueducts, irrigation projects, flood control projects, reclamation projects, reservoir filtration and supply projects, water power, duct lines, distribution lines, pipe lines, locks, dikes, levees, revetments projects, excluding work specifically defined as building construction;
(C) Work in connection with underground construction on tunnels and shafts;
(D) Railroad work in its entirety, including elevated railroads;
(E) Main and side sewers;
(F) Work in connection with airports, such as runways, roads and streets, but excluding that which is listed as building construction;
(G) Work in connection with telephone, electrical, water, oil, gas or fuel lines, or any other utility or communication lines from the curb line;
(H) Sidewalks when poured incidental to a street or road project;
(I) Parking lots not incidental to a building construction project; and
(J) Demolition of all buildings as part of site preparation for any highway and heavy construction as is otherwise defined in section (3).

8 CSR 30-3.040

AUTHORITY: section 290.240, RSMo 1994.* Original rule filed Aug. 24, 1990, effective April 29, 1991. Amended: Filed July 17, 1995, effective Jan. 30, 1996.
Repealed by Missouri Register December 17, 2018/Volume 43, Number 24, effective 1/29/2019
Adopted by Missouri Register June 3, 2019/Volume 44, Number 11, effective 7/31/2019

*Original authority: 290.240, RSMo 1957, amended 1969.