A.) If a contractor is found in violation of this
chapter a third time within a two year period, that contractor
must be suspended from doing any work on any public work of
a governmental contracting agency.
B.) The director shall suspend a person or firm
as follows:
(1) For a first or second violation, if a person or firm fails
to pay wages found due, any penalty assessed, or both, the person
or firm shall be immediately suspended from doing any work on
any public work of a governmental contracting agency until all
wages and penalties are paid in full; and
(2) For a third violation, the suspension shall be as prescribed
in section 104-24(c); provided that, if the person or firm continues
to violate this chapter or fails to pay wages found due or any
penalty assessed, or both, then the contractor shall immediately
be suspended from doing any work on any public work of a governmental
contracting agency for a mandatory three?year period. If after
the three year suspension period the wages found due or penalties
assessed are still unpaid, the suspension shall remain in force
until payment is made in full.
C.) No contract shall be awarded to the person
or firm so suspended or to any firm, corporation, partnership,
or association in which the person or firm has an interest,
direct or indirect, until three years have elapsed from the
date of suspension, unless the period of suspension is reduced
as herein provided. Any contract awarded in violation of this
subsection shall be void.
