HomeMy Public PortalAbout00718 O R D I N A N C E NO. 718
AN ORDINANCE declaring the necessity for the acquisition
of an easement within certain existing property within The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, for the purpose of
permitting construction of sewers therein to serve the needs of
residents on adjacent lands and authorizing the institution of
condemnation proceedings in connection therewith, with an
emergency clause.
WHEREAS, there exists within The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District an area in St. Louis County near the intersection of Mert
Avenue and Ashby Road in which there work and live numerous
people; and
WHEREAS, sanitary sewage gathered from such area will
have no alternative means of disposition to crossing said property
and will constitute a menace to the public health and welfare of
the general public and the residents of The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District; and
WHEREAS, it is the purpose and design of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District to protect the public health by relieving and
alleviating these conditions;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF
TRUSTEES OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. In order to protect the public health and
relieve the aforesaid insanitary and dangerous conditions,
it is necessary to appropriate and acquire by the exercise of
eminent domain or otherwise, an easement for the use of sewers as
hereinafter set forth, together with such working space adjacent
to the right-of-way as obtained as may be required for working
room during the construction period, and the right of ingress and
egress over the premises sought to be condemned for the access to
such easement:
An easement five (5) feet wide over the eastern five (5) feet
of Lot 8 of Acreton, a subdivision of St. Louis County, Missouri,
according to the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 17, Page 62 of
the St. Louis County Records.
Section Two. Counsel for The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District be and is hereby authorized to institute and
prosecute an action in condemnation pursuant to the provisions of
the Plan of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and the laws
of the State of Missouri, for the appropriation of private
property as hereinbefore set out.
Section Three. The immediate construction of sewers being
necessary in order to protect the public health within the
District constitutes an emergency within the meaning of the Plan
of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and this Ordinance
shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted March 5, 1962.