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t'awlrd Couat'Y, Y-an Bu's Aik
AN ORDINANCE TO CLOSE AND VACATE 40 FOOT EASEMENT
WHEREAS, a petition was duly filed with the City Council
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of the City of Van Buren, Arkansas, on the day of
%mac_ l Y asking the City Council to vacate and
abandon all that portion of the easement designated on the plat
of the West Half Northeast Quarter Southwest Quarter Section
13, Township 9 North, Range 32 West attached hereto.
WHEREAS, after due notices as required by law, the City
Council has, at the time and place mentioned in the notice,
heard all persons desiring to he heard on the question and has
ascertained that the easement or the portion thereof, herein
before described, has heretofore been dedicated to the public
use as a street herein described; has not been actually used
by the public generally for a period of at lease five years
subsequent to the filing of the Petition, that all the owners
abutting on the property to be vacated have joined in the petition
for the vacation of said street; and that public interest and
welfare will not he adversely affected by the abandonment of
such street.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED,,BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS THAT:
SECTION 1: The City of Van Buren, Arkansas, hereby releases,
vacated and abandons all its rights, together with the rights of
the public generally, in and to the easement designated as follows:
Part of the North Half'of the Southeast Quarter of Section
13, Township 9 North, Range 32 West, described as beginning
at a point 420 feet West of the Northeast corner of the
Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, thence South
315 feet, thence East 1080 feet, thence South 40 feet;
thence West 1,120 feet, thence North 355 feet, thence .East
40 feet to the point of beginning.
SECTION 2: A copy of the ordinance duly certified by the
City Clerk shall be filed in the office of the recorder of the
County and recorded in the deed records of the county.
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SECTION 3: This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its uassag_e.
PASS AND APPROVED this 1 I It- day of ItV {t
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APPROVED:
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MAYOR
ATTEST:
Acting City Clerk
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