HomeMy Public PortalAbout00545 O R D I N A N C E NO. 545
AN ORDINANCE authorizing and directing the Executive
Director to grant to St. Louis County, Missouri, for the use of
the St. Louis County Highway Department, the right to use certain
sewer and drainage easements in St. Louis County for highway
purposes, and to execute an instrument giving effect thereto upon
the conditions hereinafter set out.
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Plan of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District and by Resolution No. 6 of the District,
adopted July 1, 1954 and recorded in Book 3286, page 90 of the St.
Louis County Records, the District took title for its use and
possession to all public easements for sewer and drainage purposes
within its area, including those of the Ferguson Sewer District,
which is situated in St. Louis County; and
WHEREAS, the St. Louis County Highway Department wishes
to cross certain easements now of this District with a highway
known as Hereford Avenue; and
WHEREAS, St. Louis County, Missouri, has requested the
District grant the right to so use said easements, and the
District is willing so to do;
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District
does hereby grant to St. Louis County, Missouri, for the use of
the St. Louis County Highway Department, the right to construct,
reconstruct, repair and maintain a highway across easements owned
by the District in St. Louis County, Missouri, as hereinafter set
forth, subject, however, to the following terms and reservations:
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District reserves the
right to the full access to and use of such easements for sewer
and drainage purposes, including the right to construct new sewers
and appurtenances therein and to use, maintain and reconstruct the
new and existing sewers and appurtenances therein.
The St. Louis County Highway Department will, if
considered reasonably necessary by District's engineers, protect
the existing sewers and appurtenances at its cost, or, if
necessary to reconstruct, relocate or repair because of such
highway use, such work will be done at the cost of the St. Louis
County Highway Department. Those easements held by The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and which are involved in
this grant are as follows:
1.That easement granted to the Ferguson Sewer District
by Florentine A. Bloss, et al, on June 12, 1939,
by instrument recorded in Book 1598 Page 374 of
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the St. Louis County Records.
2.That easement granted to the Ferguson Sewer District
by Victor J. Massa on July 22, 1939, by instrument
recorded in Book 1612, Page 164 of the St. Louis
County Records.
3.That easement granted to the Ferguson Sewer District
by Victor J. Massa, et al, in June, 1940, by
instrument recorded in Book 1693 Page 301 of the
St. Louis County Records.
Section Two. The Executive Director is hereby
authorized and directed to execute in behalf of the District an
instrument giving effect to Section One hereof.
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted May 4, 1961.