Section 9.201. Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

Act—The act of August 21, 1961 (P. L. 1014, No. 455) (71 P. S. (§ § 1654—1656).

Bidder—Any person who or business entity which submits a bid for a contract for printing to the Commonwealth or any department, board, commission, or agency thereof.

Classification—The specific categories of jobs which are performed within a craft.

Contractor—Any person who or business entity which enters into a contract for printing with the Commonwealth or any department, board, commission, or agency thereof.

Craft—The special skills and trades which are recognized as such by custom and usage in the printing industry.

Locality—An economically integrated area within which workers may readily change jobs without changing their place of residence. Economic and geographic factors and not political jurisdiction alone shall be considered in the determination of any given locality.

Prevailing wages and working conditions prevalent—The hourly wage rate together with overtime, premium, differential, holiday and vacation pay, and fringe benefits received by the employes of each craft or classification and the conditions under which they work, prevalent in the locality in which the contract is being performed.

Printing—All processes and operations involved in printing—as that term is used in the printing industry—including but not limited to letterpress, offset, and gravure processes and lithographic printing or the multilith method, or both; the operations of composition, platemaking, presswork and binding; and the end products of such processes, methods and operations. The term ‘‘printing’’ shall not apply to newspaper advertisements.