ORD 01-09 Adopting 2009 Standard Specifications for Public Works ConstructionORDINANCE NO.O1-
09 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING CHAPTER 12.02
OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADOPT
THE 2009 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 2009 edition
thereof;
and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Orange desires to adopt the 2009
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:cF~TrnN
r•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 2009 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 2009 edition in each of the two
years between publication of a new edition of the Greenbook, are adopted and applYCable 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
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 24`" day of March, 2009.
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ATTEST:
Mary >,~hy, City Clerk,
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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 24th day of February, 2009, and thereafter at the regular meeting of said
City Council duly held on the 24th day of March, 2009, was duly passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES:COUNCILMEMBERS:Smith, Murphy, Cavecche, Dumitru, Bilodeau
NOES:COUNCILMEMBERS:None
ABSENT:COUNCILMEMBERS:None
ABSTAIN:COUNCILMEMBERS:None
Mary a y, City Orange
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