HomeMy Public PortalAbout01559 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1559
AN ORDINANCE, establishing certain described lands as
part of the Water Pollution Control Project of the Mississippi
River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District,
contemplated by Ordinance No. 775, approved June 25, 1962,
containing a legal description of the aforesaid lands forming an
integral, constituent and necessary part of said Water Pollution
Control Project, authorizing the institution of condemnation
proceedings in connection therewith, and containing an emergency
clause.
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District, pursuant to proceedings duly and lawfully
had in accordance with the provisions of its 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
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
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issued in the amount of Ninety Five Million Dollars
($95,000,000.00) to provide funds for the purpose of constructing
a system of sanitary interceptor sewers and sewage disposal and
treatment plant and works for said subdistrict, including all
expenses necessarily incidental thereto?" and
WHEREAS, more than two-thirds of the qualified electors
voting on the aforesaid proposition, voted in favor thereof; and
WHEREAS, by reason of the aforesaid result of said
special election, the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is now authorized and
empowered to borrow money and issue its bonds in evidence thereof,
in the sum of Ninety Five Million Dollars ($95,000,000.00) for the
purpose of constructing a system of sanitary interceptor sewers,
force mains and sewage disposal and treatment plants and works for
said subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily incidental
thereto; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary that The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District acquire certain lands forming an integral,
constituent and necessary part of the Water Pollution Control
Project of the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. There shall be and is hereby established
as part of the Water Pollution Control Project of the Mississippi
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River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District,
contemplated by Ordinance No. 775, adopted on the 25th day of
June, 1962, the following described lands located in the County of
St. Louis, State of Missouri:
An irregularly shaped parcel of land in the southeast
corner of Lot 9 of "Kayser Heights," a
subdivision in St. Louis County, Missouri, as
per plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 47,
page 49, St. Louis County Recorder's office,
which parcel is described as follows:
Beginning at the southeast corner of said Lot
9; thence North 56 degrees 10 minutes West,
8.5 feet along the southwest line of said Lot
9, being along the northeast line of Kayser
Avenue, 40 feet wide, as dedicated on said
plat of "Kayser Heights;" thence northwardly
along the arc of a curve with a radius of 210
feet to the right, 45 feet, more or less, to
a point in the eastern line of said Lot 9,
distant North 07 degrees 56 minutes West, 50
feet along said eastern line from the
southeast corner of said Lot 9; thence along
the eastern line of said Lot 9, South 07
degrees 56 minutes East, 50 feet to the
beginning.
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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 a system
of sanitary interceptor sewers, force mains and sewage disposal
and treatment plants and works for said subdistrict is necessary
in order to protect the public health and constitute 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.
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The foregoing Ordinance was adopted December 8, 1966.