HomeMy Public PortalAbout01430 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1430
AN ORDINANCE, declaring the necessity for the
acquisition of easements 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 the City of Overland, in St.
Louis County, Missouri, in which there live numerous people; and
WHEREAS, sanitary sewage gathered from such area
requires a relief sewer in addition to the inadequate existing
sewer and such added sewerage has no alternative means of
disposition to crossing said property and constitutes 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 Metro-
politan 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 easements:
An easement ten (10) feet in width across property now or formerly
of Constantine P. Filla and Mary Filla, his wife, in Lot 9,
Block 6 of Laughlin's Resubdivision of Laughlin's Addition to
Sycamore Hills, according to the plat thereof recorded in
Plat Book 6, page 65 of the St. Louis County Records, which
easement is described as follows: The east ten (10) feet of
Lot 9, Block 6 of aforesaid Subdivision.
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 December 9, 1965.
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