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RESOLUTION NO. I s8$
A RESOLUTION CERTIFYING THE CONDEMNATION AND
REMOVAL OF HOUSES, BUILDINGS, AND/OR 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 torn 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 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 therein set forth.
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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 of any net costs incurred
by the City for the removal of said house, building and/or structure.
ADOPTED THIS ~.1~ DAY OF 1 c _ M~r_, 1998.
AL BOALS, MAYOR
ATTEST:
D N C I CLERK
RECEIVED
CITY CtERK OFFICE
DATE ~((~~ ~ ~ CJ ~' °~/~~'
Resolution No.
EXHIBIT "A"
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EXHIBIT "A..
OWNER OF RECORD AND LEGAL
RESIDENTIAL:
Rev. James Morgan
Mt. Zion Church
P. O. Box 279
West Memphis, AR 72301
400 North 9th
Lot 7, Blk. 26
Thompson 1st
DESCRIPTION OF COMPLAINT
Dangerous structure-
uninhabitable, needs to be
condemned