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BILL NO.
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INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMAN . ,
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ORDINANCE NO.
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, DISCONTINUING AS A
RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR PUBLIC THOROUGHFARES AND VACATING ELM STREET FROM
JACKSON STREET TO MARSHALL STREET AND A PORTION OF THE 20-FOOT
ALLEY IN THE BLOCK BETWEEN DUNKLIN STREET AND ELM STREET AND JACKSO
STREET AND MARSHALL STREET AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR
AND THE CLERK OF THE CITY TO EXECUTE IN WRITING ALL INSTRUD1ENTS
INECESSARY OR REQUIRED TO CONFIRM IN THE OWNERS OF THE ADJACENT LAND
THEIR REVERSIONARY RIGHTS IN AND TO THE VACATED AREA.
WHEREAS, it has been shown to the City Council of the City ofl
Jefferson, Missouri, that the owners of land abutting on Elm Street
from Jackson to Marshall and a portion of the 20-foot alley in the
block between Dunklin Street and Elm Street and Jackson Street and
Marshall Street have petitioned the City Council to discontinue as
a right-of-way for public thoroughfares and vacate the street and
alley described, and
WHEREAS, it has further been shown that the areas to be '
vacated are not used by the public, and that any prospective use
thereof would be of no benefit to the public, and that it would not
,inconvenience the public or the citizens of this City to dis-
continue as a right-of-way for public thoroughfares and vacate Elm
Street and that portion of a 20-foot alley described in Section 1
of this Ordinance, NOW THEREFORE: i
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON,
MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:
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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 public thoroughfares and forever
vacate the following-described property:
Elm Street from Jackson Street to Marshall Street,
and,
All that part of a twenty-foot alley that is bounded
on the north by Inlot 843 and on the south by Inlot 847.
SECTION 2. The statutory right of reversion in the owners of
the property abutting on the area vacated above, as provided. by the
Taws of Missouri, is hereby expressly confirmed, and the Mayor and
the Clerk of the City are hereby authorized and directed to execute
in writing all instruments necessary or required to confirm in the
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abutting property owners their reversionary rights in the land
described above and hereby vacated.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and approval.
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Passed: ' Approved:
President of the Council Mayor ,•id,�„
Attest:
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