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SPONSORED BY COUNCILMAN
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, VACATING AND
DISCONTINUING A PORTION OF A PUBLIC ALLEY.
WHEREAS, it has been shown to the City Council of the City of
Jefferson, Missouri, that the owner of land adjacent to and abutting
upon the east-west alley between Elm Street and Dunklin Street from
Missouri Boulevard to U. S. Highway 54 in the City, has petitioned
the City Council to vacate right-of-way as a public alley; and,
WHEREAS, it has further been shown that it would not incon-
venience the public or the citizens of the City to discontinue as a
right-of-way for a public alley such alley as described in Section 1
of this Ordinance, subject to a reservation in the City of an easement
in that portion vacated for the maintenance, repair, location and
relocation of all sanitary sewer, surface water sewer or public utility
facilities now existing or hereafter to be constructed within said
right-of-way:
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Council of the City of Jefferson, hereby
declares it necessary, reasonable and proper to discontinue as a
right-of-way for a public alley and forever vacate the following
described alley in said City, subject to the reservation in the City of
the easement mentioned in Section 2 of this Ordinance:
All that part of a twenty (20) foot wide alley lying South of
Inlots No. 768, 769 and 770, and North of Inlot No. 771, in the
City of Jefferson, County of Cole, Missouri.
Section 2. All of that portion of the above vacated property is
hereby retained as a perpetual easement or right-of-way for the
construction, maintenance, repair, relocation and operation of sani-
tary sewers, surface water drainage, and all public utility facilities,
and no permanent buildings or structure's shall be located within or
upon said easement without the prior written consent of the City.
Section 3. The statutory right of reversion in the owners of the
abutting property is hereby confirmed, subject to the easement
expressly reserved in Section 2 of this Ordinance, as is provided by
the laws of the State of Missouri, and the Mayor and the Clerk of the
City are hereby authorized to execute all necessary instruments
required to confirm the reversionary rights of the owners of property
abutting on the area vacated, as described in Section 1 of this
Ordinance, in the right-of-way vacated.
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Section 4. This Ordinan-,-;.° shalt be in full force and effect from
and after October 9, 1983.
Passed 9 '"(O 95 Approved
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