HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 07-18 Adopting Greenbook 2018 EditionORDINANCE NO. 07-18
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING CHAPTER
12.02 OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE TO
ADOPT THE 2018 EDITION OF THE "STANDARD
SPECIFICATIONS FOR PUBLIC WORKS
CONSTRUCTION ".
WHEREAS, the Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction, popularly
known as the "Greenbook ", provides specifications that have general applicability to public
works projects; and
WHEREAS, the Greenbook has been adopted by more than 200 cities, counties and
agencies in the Southern California area, including the City of Orange; and
WHEREAS, the Greenbook, first published in 1967, is updated and republished every
three years; and
WHEREAS, Public Works Standards, Inc. a mutual benefit corporation, is the current
producer of the Greenbook and has written and promulgated the 2018 edition thereof, and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Orange desires to adopt the 2018 edition of
the Greenbook for the purpose of providing specifications that have general applicability to the
City's public works projects.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I:
Chapter 12.02 of the Orange Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
12.02.010 Adopted by Reference Except as may otherwise be provided herein, the
provisions of the 2018 edition of the "Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction"
popularly known as the "Greenbook "), written and promulgated by Public Works Standards, Inc.
a mutual benefit corporation, together with such changes as may be published in pamphlet form
as amendments to the 2018 edition in each of the two years between publication of a new edition
of the Greenbook, are adopted and applicable to all public works construction undertaken after
the effective date of this ordinance. One copy of the Standard Specifications for Public Works
construction has been and is now filed with the office of the City Clerk, and said Standard
Specifications for Public Works Construction is adopted by reference as if incorporated and set
out at length in this Chapter."
SECTION II:
Should any section, subsection, clause, or provision of this Ordinance for any reason be
held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the
validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this Ordinance; it being hereby expressly
declared that this Ordinance, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase hereof
would have been prepared, proposed, approved and ratified irrespective of the fact that any one
or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION III:
A summary of this Ordinance shall be published and a certified copy of the full text of
this Ordinance, along with a copy of the 2018 Greenbook, shall be posted in the Office of the
City Clerk at least fifteen (15) days prior to the City Council meeting at which this Ordinance is
to be adopted. A summary of this Ordinance shall also be published once within fifteen (15)
days after its passage in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Orange. The City Clerk
shall post in the Office of the City Clerk a certified copy of the full text of the adopted Ordinance
along with the names of those City Council members voting for and against the Ordinance in
accordance with Government Code Section 36933.
ADOPTED this 8th day of May 2018.
Teresa E. Smith, Mayor, City of Orange
ATTEST:
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Mary E. Murph , Clerk, Ci ange
Ordinance No. 07 -18
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF ORANGE
I, MARY E. MURPHY, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, do hereby certify
that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at the regular meeting of the City Council held on
the 10th day of April 2018, and thereafter at the regular meeting of said City Council duly held
on the 8th day of May 2018, was duly passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Alvarez, Whitaker, Smith, Murphy, Nichols
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
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Mary E. , City Clerk, City o ange
Ordinance No. 07 -18