HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD-02-06 Amend Ch 12.02- Adopt Specifications for Public Works ConstuctionORDINANCE NO. 2-06
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING CHAPTER
12.02 OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE TO
ADOPT THE 2006 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 2006 edition thereof;
and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Orange desires to adopt the 2006 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Chapter 12.02 of the Orange Municipal Code is hereby repealed in its entirety and
replaced with the following new Chapter 12.02, to read in full as follows:
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Chapter 12.02
STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS FOR
PUBLIC WORKS CONSTRUCTION
Sections:
12.02.010
12.02.020
Adopted by Reference
Imposition of Stricter Standards
12.02.010 Adopted bv Reference. Except as may otherwise be provided herein,
the provisions of the 2006 edition of the "Standard Specifications for Public Works
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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 2006 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.
12.02.020 Imposition of Stricter Standards. Whenever any provIsIon or
requirement of this Chapter conflicts with any other provision or requirement of the Code or
the City's Standard Plans and Specifications, as amended from time to time, such other
provision or requirement or the City's Standard Plans and Specifications shall apply."
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 anyone 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 shall be posted in the Office of the City Clerk at least five (5) 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 (IS) 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 14th day of February, 2006.
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Mark N Murphy, Mayor,
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ATTEST:
I City Clerk, City of range
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 January, 2006, and thereafter at the regular meeting of said City
Council duly held on the 14th day of February, 2006, was duly passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
COUNCILMEMBERS: Smith, Ambriz, Murphy, Cavecche, Dumitru
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
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