Liquid Asphalt Distributors Ass'n v. Roberts

OPINION OF THE COURT

Levine, J.

The instant case concerns the interpretation of 1983 amendments to Labor Law § 220 (L 1983, ch 447) (hereinafter the 1983 amendments). Labor Law § 220 mandates that workers on public projects be paid at the wage rate which prevails in their trade or occupation in the locality where they work. Prior to 1983, "locality” was defined under the statute as the "town, city, village or other civil division of the state wherein the physical work is being performed” (Labor Law former § 220 [5] [d]) and respondent determined prevailing wage rates by conducting surveys of…