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RESOLUTION NO. 17
A RESOLUTION CERTIFYING T'HE CONDEMNATION AND
REMOVAL OF HOUSES, BUILDINGS AND/OR RESIDENTIAL
STRUCTURES CONSTITUTING A NUISANCE WITHIN THE
CITY OF WEST MEMPHIS CORPORATE LIMITS.
WHEREAS, Chapter 12.64 of the West Memphis Municipal Code provides a
procedure for the City Council to condemn any house, building and/or structure which
constitutes a nuisance by adoption of a resolution setting out a description of the house,
building or structure, the name or names, if known, of the owners thereof, and the reason
or reasons said house, building and/or structure is or has been condemned as a nuisance;
and
WHEREAS, as provided in Chapter 12.64 of West Memphis Municipal Code,
notice of the condemnation of the house, building and/or structure is to be provided by
mailing a certified copy of the resolution to the owner or owners if their whereabouts are
known or to their last known address and by posting a copy of the resolution at a
conspicuous place on said house, building and/or structure, and if the whereabouts or last
known address are unknown the posting of the resolution will suffice as notice; and
WHEREAS, as provided in Chapter 12.64 of West Memphis Municipal code, the
house, building and/or structure constituting a nuisance will be torn down and/or removed
by the building inspector or his duly designated representative if it has not been tom down
and removed, or said nuisance otherwise abated within thirty (30) days after posting the
true copy of the resolution at a conspicuous place on said house, building and/or structure
constituting a nuisance; and
WHEREAS, if the City has any net costs in removal of any house, building or
structure, the City shall have a lien placed on the property;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS, THAT the houses, buildings and/or
structures described in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference
are hereby declared to be a nuisance for the reason or reasons therein set forth.
Resolution No.
page two
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT if the house, building and/or structure
constituting a nuisance has not been torn down and removed or the nuisance otherwise
abated within thirty (30) days of the posting of a true copy of this resolution in a
conspicuous place on said house, building and/or structure, the building inspector or his
duly designated representative is authorized and directed to tear down and/or remove the
house, building and/or structure constituting a nuisance and to cause a lien to be placed on
the property for any net costs incurred by the city for the removal of said house, building
and/or structure.
ADOPTED this ~ day of Crn bt 2004.
WII..LIAM H. JO N, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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PHILLIP PARA, CITY CLERK
RECEIVED
City Clerk's Office
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Jessie Lee Weems
2912 Beatty
Lot 15, Blk. 5
Rich Eastern 3rd
Tony Jones Trustee ET AL
220 Bettis
Lot 12, Blk. 6
Rich Eastern
Robert J & Marie Fulton
3108 Church
Lot 5, Blk. 1
Rich Eastern 3rd
Ophelia & Jordan Speaks
1802 E Harrison
Lot 17, Blk. 152
Kendal
HUD
8 McArthur
Lot 4, Blk. 2
Cooper
Nathaniel Ratcliff
704 1/2 E Polk
Lots 35-36, Blk. 111
Kendal
Ronald Bronte
1114 N Redding
Lot 2, Blk. 5
Worthington Park
EXHIBIT "A"
Burned house
Burned house
Burned house
Burned storage building
Unsafe-dilapidated structure
Unsafe-dilapidated structure
Unsafe-dilapidated structure
Resolution No.
Exhibit "A"
page 4
Edwin F Leigh, Jr.
2696 E Tyler
Lot 22, Blk. 4
Broadway Park 1st
Miles Canady
301 N 10
Lot 6, Blk. 21
Thompson 1st
Chad Daniels
223 S 11
Lot 30, Blk. 105
Kendal
Mary Stanhouse
211 N 12
Lot 1, Blk. 14
Thompson 1st
Roosevelt & Ethel Metcalf
400 N 12
Lot 7, Blk. 29
Thompson 1st
Clyde & Freddie Whitfield
316 (322) S 12
Lot 9, Blk. 85
Kendal
Johnny Smith
422 S 13
Lots 12-13, Blk. 100
Kendal
Amelia & C S Senhausen
221 S 17
Lot 29, Blk. 135
Kendal
Unsafe-dilapidated structure
Burned house
Unsafe-dilapidated structure
Unsafe-dilapidated structure
Unsafe-dilapidated structure
Unsafe-dilapidated structure
Unsafe-dilapidated structure
Burned house
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Resoiutign No.
Exhibit `~'
page 5
Ester Richardson
HA8--x.18
S 1/2 Lot 2, Blk. 155
Kendal-
Robert & Anita R Clarke
62518
N 1/2 Lot 3, Blk. 155
Kendal
Annie Lee Ellis
618 S 18
S 1/2 Lot 3, Blk. 155
Kendal
Dellie Mae Wiley
632 5,21.
N 1/2 Lot 5, Blk. 176
Kendal _
Alvin Chatt
S, 21
1/2 Lot 7, Blk. 172
Kendal-
Burlington Northern Railroad
5(13 E -Br-oadway
18-06-09
WM-Irreg -Lets-
cture
Unsafe-dilapidated-structure
Unsafe-dilapidated st~cture
Burnedhouse
Burned~house
Unsafe-dilapidated-st~Eture-