HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 02-15 Adopting 2015 Greenbook for Public WorksORDINANCE NO. 02-15
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING CHAPTER 12.02 OF
THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADOPT THE
2015 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 2015 edition thereof,
and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Orange desires to adopt the 2015 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 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 2015 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 2015 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 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 12 day of May, 2015.
qe sa E. Smith, Mayor, City of Orange
ATTEST:
Mary E. , City Clerk, C f Orange
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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 14 day of April, 2015, and thereafter at the regular meeting of said City Council
duly held on the 12 day of May, 2015, 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
Mary E. urp ity Clerk, City ange