HomeMy Public PortalAbout01463 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1463
AN ORDINANCE directing the issuance of Twenty Million
Dollars ($20,000,000) (of Ninety-five Million Dollars
($95,000,000) authorized) General Obligation Sewer Bonds of the
Mississippi River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District, in the State of Missouri, authorized at a special
election held in said Subdistrict on the 6th day of November,
1962; setting out the form of said bonds and the interest coupons
to be attached thereto, designating the rates of interest,
maturities, and paying agent for said bonds; and making provision
for the levy of a tax sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds
as it accrues and to pay the principal thereof at maturity.
WHEREAS, The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District was
created pursuant to a Plan adopted by the voters of the City of
St. Louis and of St. Louis County, Missouri, at a special election
held on Tuesday, the 9th day of February, 1954, all as provided
and authorized by Sections 30(a) and 30(b) of Article VI of the
Constitution of the State of Missouri; and
WHEREAS, thereafter, proceeding under the authority of
the aforesaid Plan; the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District, pursuant to proceedings theretofore duly and
lawfully had in accordance with the provisions of the said Plan,
by Ordinance No. 775, adopted on the 25th day of June, 1962, did
create the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District; and
WHEREAS, thereafter, by Ordinance No. 845, adopted on
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the 27th day of September, 1962, the Board of Trustees of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District did call and provide for the
holding of a special election in the said Mississippi River
Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District for the
purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of said
Subdistrict the following proposition, to wit: PROPOSITION "Shall the general obligation bonds of the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District be issued in the amount of Ninety-five Million Dollars ($95,000,000) to provide funds for the purpose of constructing a system of sanitary interceptor sewers and sewage disposal and treatment plants and works for said Subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily incidental thereto?" and
WHEREAS, due and regular notice of said special
election was given as directed by the aforesaid Ordinance No. 845
and as required by the Plan of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District, by publication once a week for at least three (3)
consecutive weeks in The St. Louis Globe-Democrat and in The St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, newspapers of general circulation in The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and qualified to publish
legal notices; said notice having been published in each of said
newspapers on the 15th, 22nd and 29th days of October, 1962 and on
November 5, 1962 the first publication in each of said newspapers
having been made at least twenty-one (21) days prior to the date
of the election and the last publication in each of said
newspapers having been made not more than seven (7) days prior to
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the date of said election, all as shown by the publisher's
affidavits now on file in the office of the Secretary-Treasurer of
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; and
WHEREAS, as directed by the aforesaid Ordinance No.
845, the Secretary-Treasurer of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District did file a certified copy of said Ordinance No. 845 with
the Boards of Election Commissioners for the City of St. Louis and
for St. Louis County, Missouri, within their respective
jurisdictions, and
WHEREAS, the respective Boards of Election
Commissioners for the City of St. Louis and for St. Louis County,
Missouri, did thereupon proceed to hold and conduct the said
special election in said Subdistrict on the 6th day of November,
1962; and
WHEREAS, the ballots furnished for and used at the said
special election were in substantially the form as set forth in
said Ordinance No. 845; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Election Commissioners for the
City of St. Louis, on the 21st day of November, 1962, and the
Board of Election Commissioners of St. Louis County, on the 26th
day of November, 1962, did certify to the Board of Trustees of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District the result of the aforesaid
election showing that at said election there was cast on the
aforesaid proposition a total of two hundred fifty-nine thousand
seven hundred thirty-nine (259,739) votes, of which two hundred
nineteen thousand, one hundred twenty-nine (219,129) votes were
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cast "FOR THE BOND ISSUE" and forty thousand, six hundred ten
(40,610) votes were cast "AGAINST THE BOND ISSUE"; and
WHEREAS, more than two-thirds of all the votes cast on
the aforesaid proposition were cast in favor thereof; and
WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 596, adopted on the 27th day
of November, 1962, the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District did declare the result of the aforesaid
special election held on the 6th day of November, 1962, and did
find and declare that the proposition submitted at said election
was assented to by more than two-thirds of the qualified electors
of said Mississippi River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District voting on said proposition at said election,
and that the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District, therefore, is authorized to issue the bonds of the
Mississippi River Subdistrict in the amount and for the purpose
set forth in said proposition; and
WHEREAS, the assessed valuation of taxable, tangible
property within the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, as ascertained by the last
completed assessment for state and county purposes made prior to
the date of the aforesaid special election, to-wit: the
assessment made as of January 1, 1961, was Two Billion, Nine
Hundred Sixty-seven Million, Seven Hundred Ninety-two Thousand,
Two Hundred Three Dollars ($2,967,792,203); and
WHEREAS, on the date of the aforesaid special election,
to-wit: on the 6th day of November, 1962, the said Mississippi
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River Subdistrict had no outstanding indebtedness of any kind or
character; and
WHEREAS, the amount of bonds authorized to be issued at
the aforesaid special election held on the 6th day of November,
1962, to-wit: Ninety-five Million Dollars ($95,000,000), did not
then and does not now exceed any limit of indebtedness prescribed
under the Constitution of the State of Missouri or the Plan of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, aforesaid; and
WHEREAS; pursuant to due and lawful publication of
notice thereof; this Board of Trustees has heretofore issued
and sold bonds of the Mississippi River Subdistrict for the
aforesaid purpose in the following amounts and as of the following
dates:
Bonds dated February 1, 1964 $16,000,000
Bonds dated February 1, 1965 20,000,000 TOTAL $36,000,000; and
WHEREAS, this Board does now find and determine that it
is necessary at this time to proceed with the issuance, sale, and
delivery of an additional Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000) of
the Ninety-five Million Dollars ($95,000,000) of bonds authorized
as aforesaid, and that the right be reserved unto said Board, at
its option, hereafter to direct the issuance, sale, and delivery
of the remaining Thirty-nine Million Dollars ($39,000,000) of said
authorized bonds, or any part thereof, if the Board should
hereafter find that the issuance, sale, and delivery thereof is
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necessary to complete the construction of a system of sanitary
interceptor sewers and sewage disposal and treatment plants and
works for said Subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily
incidental thereto; and
WHEREAS, heretofore, to-wit: on the 19th day of
January, 1966, after due and lawful publication of notice thereof,
this Board did receive sealed bids for the purchase of Twenty
Million Dollars ($20,000,000) of bonds of the
aforesaid authorized issue, and did accept the highest bid made
and offered for said bonds; and
WHEREAS, the purchasers of said bonds have requested
that said bonds be printed in the denomination of Five Thousand
Dollars ($5,000) each and that said bonds be made payable as to
principal and interest at the Mercantile Trust Company National
Association, in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri; and
WHEREAS, this Board does now find and determine that
the aforesaid request should be approved; and
WHEREAS, it has now become necessary to make provision
for the preparation, execution, issuance, and delivery of the said
bonds:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. That there are hereby authorized and
ordered to be prepared and issued bonds of the Mississippi River
Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, in the
State of Missouri, in the amount of Twenty Million Dollars
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($20,000,000) being part of the Ninety-five Million Dollars
($95,000,000) of bonds authorized at a special election held in
said Subdistrict on the 6th day of November, 1962, to provide
funds for the purpose of constructing a system of sanitary
interceptor sewers and sewage disposal and treatment plants and
works for said Subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily
incidental thereto. The said bonds shall be of the denomination
of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) each; shall be numbered from One
(1) to Four Thousand (4,000), inclusive; shall bear date of
February 1, 1966; and shall bear interest at the rates per annum
hereinafter set forth, payable August 1, 1966 and semiannually
thereafter on February 1 and August 1 in each year until the
principal of said bonds, respectively, shall have been paid.
Interest accruing on and prior to the respective maturity dates of
said bonds shall be evidenced by appropriate interest coupons to
be attached to each of said bonds. Both principal of and interest
on said bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United
States of America at the Mercantile Trust Company National
Association, in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri. The
said bonds shall be executed by the facsimile signature of the
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District, with the seal of said District imprinted thereon
in facsimile, attested by the manual signature of the Secretary-
Treasurer of said District, and the interest coupons to be
attached to said bonds shall be executed by the facsimile
signature of said Secretary-Treasurer. Said bonds shall be
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numbered and shall mature in the amounts and at the times
hereinafter set out, as follows: RATE OF MATURITY BOND NUMBERS INTEREST AMOUNT (February 1) 1 to 400, incl 5% $2,000,000 1967
401 to 522, " 5% 610,000 1968
523 to 649, " 5% 635,000 1969
650 to 781, " 5% 680,000 1970
782 to 917, " 3-1/4% 680,000 1971
918 to 1,057, " 3-1/4% 700,000 1972
1,058 to 1,201, " 3-1/4% 720,000 1973
1,202 to 1,350, " 3-1/4% 745,000 1974
1,351 to 1,508, " 3-1/4% 765,000 1975
1,504 to 1,661, " 3-1/4% 790,000 1976
1,662 to 1,824, " 3-1/4% 815,000 1977
1,825 to 1,992, " 3-1/4% 840,000 1978
1,993 to 2,165, " 3.30% 865,000 1979
2,166 to 2,344, " 3.30% 895,000 1980
2,345 to 2,529, " 3.40% 925,000 1981
2,530 to 2,720, " 3.40% 955,000 1982
2,721 to 2,917, " 3.40% 985,000 1983
2,918 to 3,121, " 3.40% 1,020,000 1984
3,122 to 3,331, " 3.40% 1,050,000 1985
3,332 to 4,000, " 3.40% 3,345,000 1986
Section Two. That the said bonds and the interest
coupons evidencing the interest to accrue thereon shall be in
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substantially the following form, to wit: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA STATE OF MISSOURI MISSISSIPPI RIVER SUBDISTRICT OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT GENERAL OBLIGATION SEWER BOND No. _______________ $5,000.00
The Mississippi River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District, in the State of Missouri, acting herein
by and through the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District, for value received, hereby promises to pay to
bearer, or, if this bond be registered as hereinafter provided, to
the registered holder hereof, the sum of
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
($5,000.00) on the first day of February 19____, with interest
thereon from date hereof at the rate of_________________________
per centum (_______________%) per annum, payable August 1, 1966
and semi-annually thereafter on February 1 and August 1, in each
year until the principal hereof shall have been paid. Interest
accruing on this bond on and prior to the maturity date hereof
shall be payable upon presentation and surrender of the annexed
interest coupons as they severally become due.
Both principal of and interest on this bond are payable
in lawful money of the United States of America at the Mercantile
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Trust Company National Association, in the City of St. Louis,
State of Missouri, and, for the prompt payment of this bond and
the interest hereon, the full faith, credit, and resources of the
Mississippi River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District are hereby irrevocably pledged.
This bond is one of a series of four thousand, (4,000)
bonds of like date, tenor, and effect, except as to number, rate
of interest, and date of maturity, numbered from One (1) to Four
Thousand (4,000) inclusive, aggregating the sum of Twenty Million
Dollars ($20,000,000) being part of Ninety-five Million Dollars
($95,000,000) authorized, issued by the Mississippi River
Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District to
provide funds for the purpose of constructing a system of sanitary
interceptor sewers and sewage disposal and treatment plants and
works for said Subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily
incidental thereto, and is issued under authority of the
Constitution of the State of Missouri and the Plan of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and pursuant to an election
duly called and held in said Mississippi River Subdistrict of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District on the 6th day of November,
1962, whereat more than two-thirds of the votes cast were in favor
of the issuance of this bond and of the series of which it is one,
and by further authority of ordinances duly adopted and
proceedings duly had by the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District.
This bond may be registered as to principal in the name
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of the holder on the books of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District in the office of the Secretary-Treasurer of said
District, such registration to be evidenced by notation of said
Secretary-Treasurer on the reverse hereof, after which no transfer
hereof shall be valid unless made on said books and similarly
noted hereon, but this bond may be discharged from registration by
being transferred to bearer, after which it shall be transferable
by delivery, but it may again be registered as before. The
registration of this bond shall not affect the negotiability of
the interest coupons hereto attached, which shall continue to be
negotiable by delivery merely, notwithstanding registration
hereof.
It is hereby certified and recited that all acts,
conditions, and things required to be done, precedent to and in
the issuance of this bond, in order to make the same a lawful and
binding obligation of said Mississippi River Subdistrict of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, have been done, have
happened, and have been performed in regular and due form, time,
and manner, as required by law; that provision has been made for
the levy of a direct, continuing, annual tax upon all taxable,
tangible property in said Subdistrict for the payment of the
principal of and the interest on this bond; and that the total
indebtedness of said Subdistrict, including this bond and the
issue of which it is one, does not exceed any statutory or consti-
tutional limit.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the Mississippi River Subdistrict
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of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, acting herein by and
through the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District, has caused this bond to be executed by the facsimile
signature of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, with the seal of said
District imprinted hereon in facsimile, attested by the manual
signature of the Secretary-Treasurer of said District, and has
caused the annexed interest coupons to be executed by the
facsimile signature of said Secretary-Treasurer, which signature
the said Secretary-Treasurer, by the execution of this bond,
adopts as and for his own proper signature, and this bond to be
dated February 1, 1966. MISSISSIPPI RIVER SUBDISTRICT OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS ATTEST: SEWER DISTRICT ___________________________ By ___________________________ Secretary-Treasurer of The Chairman, Board of Trustees Metropolitan St. Louis of The Metropolitan St. Sewer District Louis Sewer District (FORM OF INTEREST COUPONS) No. ____________________ $ ____________________ August
On the first day of February, 19____, the Mississippi
River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, in
the State of Missouri, promises to pay to bearer the amount shown
on this coupon in lawful money of the United States of America at
the Mercantile Trust Company National Association, in the City of
St. Louis, State of Missouri, being interest due that date on its
General Obligation Sewer Bond dated February 1, 1966, and numbered
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___________________. MISSISSIPPI RIVER SUBDISTRICT OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT By ___________________________ Secretary-Treasurer of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District The interest coupons to be attached to said bonds shall be payable in the following amounts, to wit: SEMI-ANNUAL BOND NUMBERS COUPONS 1 - 781 $ 125.00 782 - 1992 81.25 1993 - 2344 82.50 2345 - 4000 85.00 (REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE)
In accordance with the terms of this bond it may be
registered as to principal only, appropriate notation being made
below by the Secretary-Treasurer of The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District, in the State of Missouri. (Note:No writing below except by the Secretary-Treasurer of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District) SIGNATURE OF DATE OF REGISTRATION IN WHOSE NAME REGISTERED SECRETARY-TREASURER ____________________ ________________________ ___________________ ____________________ ________________________ ___________________ ____________________ ________________________ ___________________ ____________________ ________________________ ___________________
Section Three. That when the said bonds shall have
been executed as hereinbefore directed, they shall be registered
in the office of the Secretary-Treasurer of The Metropolitan St.
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Louis Sewer District in a book to be provided and kept for that
purpose.
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Section Four. That for the purpose of providing for the
payment principal of and the interest on said bonds as they shall
respectively mature and accrue, there shall be and there is hereby
levied a direct, continuing, annual tax upon all taxable, tangible
property within said Mississippi River Subdistrict, sufficient,
after allowance shall have been made for the expenses of
collection and delinquencies in the payment of taxes, to produce
in each of the years 1966 to 1986, inclusive, the sums necessary
to pay said bonds as they mature and the interest thereon as it
accrues, and provision to meet the requirements of this Ordinance
shall be made annually in due time, manner, and season.
Section Five. That said tax shall be extended upon the
tax rolls and shall be collected in the same manner and at the
same time as state, county, school, and other ad valorem taxes are
extended and collected, and the rate of tax which shall be so
extended shall be sufficient in each year fully to produce the
sums required as aforesaid, after due allowance shall have been
made for probable delinquencies in the payment of taxes and the
customary costs of collection, and the proceeds derived from the
collection of such tax shall be credited to a special fund
heretofore created in the treasury of The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District and designated "MISSISSIPPI RIVER SUBDISTRICT BOND
AND INTEREST FUND," and shall be used exclusively for the purpose
herein required.
Section Six. That the Chairman and the Secretary-
Treasurer of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District are hereby
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authorized and directed to cause the bonds herein described to be
prepared and to execute the same as herein directed, to cause the
same to be registered in the office of the Secretary-Treasurer,
and thereupon to deliver the said bonds to the purchasers thereof.
Section Seven. That the principal proceeds received
from sale and delivery of the bonds herein authorized to be
issued, immediately upon receipt thereof, shall be set aside in a
separate fund designated "MISSISSIPPI RIVER SUBDISTRICT
CONSTRUCTION FUND," and shall be used solely and only for the
purpose of constructing a system of sanitary interceptor sewers
and sewage disposal and treatment plants and works for said
Subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily incidental
thereto. The accrued interest and the premium received upon sale
and delivery of the aforesaid bonds shall be deposited forthwith
in and credited to the Bond and Interest Fund specified in Section
Five of this Ordinance.
Section Eight. That the Secretary-Treasurer of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District be and is hereby authorized
and directed, without any further order or direction of the Board
of Trustees of said District, to remit to the Mercantile Trust
Company National Association, the paying agent hereinabove named,
at least five (5) days prior to each interest payment date and
each bond maturity date, the sums which will then be due for
interest or principal, or both, and to include with each such
remittance the usual and customary fees of such paying agent for
its services and responsibility in paying interest coupons and
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bonds and making accounting therefor to the District.
Section Nine. That the right shall be and is hereby
reserved unto this Board, at its option, hereafter to direct the
issuance, sale and delivery of the remaining Thirty-nine Million
Dollars ($39,000,000) of the Ninety-five Million Dollars
($95,000,000) of bonds authorized at the aforesaid election held
on the 6th day of November, 1962, or any part thereof, if this
Board should hereafter find that the issuance, sale and delivery
thereof is necessary to complete the construction of a system of a
system of sanitary interceptor sewers and sewage disposal and
treatment plants and works for said Subdistrict, including all
expenses necessarily incidental thereto.
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The foregoing Ordinance was adopted January 31, 1966.