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WHEREAS, by Sec. 3.010 of the Plan of The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District, it is provided that on July 1, 1954, by
virtue of the adoption of the Plan by the vote of the people of
the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County, the District shall
take over certain sewer facilities; and
WHEREAS, said Plan has been adopted by the voters of
The City of St. Louis and of St. Louis County, and has been duly
recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds for St. Louis
County and in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds for the City of
St. Louis and deposited in the Office of the Secretary of State as
required by the Constitution of the State of Missouri;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Trustees of the
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District that all of the existing
sanitary and stormwater sewer systems and facilities of any and
all municipalities, sewer districts, and other public agencies
situated within the boundaries of the District, together with all
contracts rights, privileges, interests, easements, books, maps,
plans, papers and records, of whatever description pertaining to
or relating to the design, construction, maintenance, operation or
affairs of such existing sanitary and stormwater sewer systems and
facilities, be and they hereby are transferred to, vested in and
dedicated to the use of and are under the possession,
jurisdiction, control and supervision of the District, and the
District declares that it has taken title thereto for its use and
possession for the benefit of all persons now or hereafter owning
property or residing within the limits of the area, the boundaries
of which are set out in Sec. 2.010 of said Plan, recorded in the
Office of the Recorder of Deeds for St. Louis County in Book 3222
at Page 96, and in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds for the
City of St. Louis in Book 7370 at Page 537; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said taking of title is
limited to the legal title to the existing sanitary and stormwater
sewer systems and facilities of such municipalities, sewer
districts and other public agencies for the collection of sanitary
sewage and stormwater, and the District does not assume or agree
to pay or be liable for any bonded indebtedness of any
municipality, sewer district or other public agency; nor does said
District hereby take title to any automobiles, trucks or other
cable equipment used for purposes of construction, maintenance or
operation of such existing sanitary or stormwater sewer systems
and facilities, nor title to land or buildings used exclusively
for administering the affairs of such systems and facilities, or
title to the furnishings and equipment in such buildings; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all municipalities, sewer
districts or other public agencies now engaged in the operation
and maintenance of existing sanitary and stormwater sewer systems
and facilities shall continue to maintain and operate said systems
and facilities until such date as this Board of Trustees shall, by
resolution, fix for taking over and assuming the operation,
maintenance and control of said sewer systems and facilities; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of his Resolution,
signed by the Chairman of the Board and attested by the Secretary-
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Treasurer under the seal of the District be filed for record in
the offices of the Recorder of Deeds within and for the City of
St. Louis and St. Louis County respectively. THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT By ____________________________ Chairman of the Board (SEAL) ______________________________ Secretary-Treasurer STATE OF MISSOURI ) ) SS CITY OF ST. LOUIS )
On this first day of July, 1954, personally appeared
before me George C. Willson, to me personally known who, being by
me duly sworn did say that he is the Chairman Of the Board of the
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, a body corporate, a
municipal corporation and a political subdivision of the State of
Missouri, and that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is
the corporate seal of said corporation and that said instrument
was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority
of its Board of Trustees, and said George C. Willson acknowledged
said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation.
______________________________ Notary Public The foregoing Resolution was adopted July 1, 1954.