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INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMAN �iryci"
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, VACATING AND
DISCONTINUING AS A PUBLIC THOROUGHFARE THE EAST-WEST ALLEY BETWEEN
HIGH STREET AND CAPITOL AVENUE WESTERLY FROM JEFFERSON STREET,
RESERVING TO THE CITY AN EASEMENT IN THE RIGHT OF WAY VACATED FOR
SANITARY SEWER, SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE, AND PUBLIC UTILITY
PURPOSES, AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR AND CLERK OF THE
CITY TO EXECUTE ALL INSTRUMENTS REQUIRED TO CONFIRM IN THE
ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNERS THEIR RIGHT OF REVERSION IN THE VACATED
AREA.
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 an East-West Alley lying between High Street and
Capitol Avenue, westerly from Jefferson Street, in the City, has
petitioned the City Council to vacate right of way as a public
thoroughfare; and
WHEREAS, it has further been shown that it would not
inconvenience the public or the citizens of the City to discontin-
ue as a right of way for a public thoroughfare 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,
Missouri, hereby declares it necessary, reasonable and proper to
discontinue as a right of way for a public thoroughfare 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:
"The east-west alley between High Street and Capitol
Avenue from the west right-of-way line of Jefferson
Street westerly to the dead end of said alley."
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Section 2. The City of Jefferson, Missouri, does hereby
expressly reserve to itself, its successors and licensees, and all
public utility companies within the City, an easement in, under,
over and upon that portion of the right of way of alley described
in Section 1 of this ordinance, for purposes of repairing, main-
taining, servicing, locating and relocating all sanitary sewer
surface water drainage and public utility facilities now existing
or hereafter to be constructed within said area.
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 and directed to
execute all 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.
Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and approval.
Passed , q 17 o .— Approve
Pr ident of the Counc 1 Mayor
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Attest
City Clerk
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