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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 10, Page 1381, No Ordinance Number138' AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE DESIRABILITY AND NECESSITY OF REDUCING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, BY STRIKING OFF ALL OF THAT AREA COMPRISING THE OHIO AND TENNESSEE RIVERS AS DEFINED HEREIN, AND DEFINING ACCURATELY THE BODUDARIES OF SUCH TERRITORY PROPOSED TO BE STRICKEP] OFF WHEREAS, under ordinances adopted by the General Council of City of Paducah in the years 1871 and 1894, the easterly and westerly city limits lines were extended across the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers to the low water mark on the north bank of said rivers, so that there was included in the corporate limits of the City of Paducah all of that area comprising the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers adjacent to the lands of said city, as will be shown by a plat of the City of Paducah prepared by T. A. Bradley and L. W. Bradley on October 12th, 1943, and on file in the office of the City Engineer; and, '!WHEREAS, the City of Paducah being unable to provide fire and police protection, or any other municipal service for the benefit of the owners and operators of boats, barges and other vessels which ply the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers within the corporat limits as established by the aforesaid ordinances and plat, and it is deemed advisable and for the best interests of the City of Pa that the boundaries be reduced by striking off all of the aforesaid area comprising the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: SEC TION 1. As used in this ordinance, the words "pool-stage"or "pool -line" hall mean that elevation on the south banks of the Ohio and nessee Rivers which is 302 feet above sea bevel. SECTION 2. That the following described territory embraced within the resent corporate limits of the City of Paducah be excluded therefrom, nd that the line of the city limits on the south bank of the Ohio nd Tennessee Rivers be re -located by striking off all of that area omprising the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers which is described as follows: Beginning at a point where the present West city Limits line intersects the low water mark on the North bank of the Ohio River, which line was es- tablished by an annexation ordinance passed by the General Council of the City of Paducah in the year 1894, thence with the low water mark along the North Bank of the Ohio River and in a Southerly dir- ection to a point where the low water mark on the North bank of the Ohio River intersects the present east city limits line as established by the afore- said ordinance adopted in 1894; thence in a south- westerly direction and with the present city limits line to the pool -stage or pool -line on the South bank of the Tennessee River; thence with the pool- 1382 line on the Oouth tank of the Tennessee River and in a Northwesterly direction to a point where the pool -line on the South bank of the Tennessee River intersects the pool -line on the South bank of the Ohio River; thence with the pool -stage or pool -line on the South bank of the Ohio River, continuing in a northwesterly direction, to its intersection with the west city limits line as established by the aforesaid ordinance adopted in 1894; thence in a northerly direction and with the present west city limits line to the point of beginning on the North bank of the Ohio River." SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be published in at least ten issues of the Jun -Democrat, the official newspaper of the City of Paducah and the reduction of the city limits as herein proposed shall not become effective until the adoption of an ordinance reducing the same as above provided, and such ordinance shall not be adopted until the expiration of 30 days after the enactment of this ordinance and the publication thereof as herein provided. SECTION 4. This ordinance declaring the desirability and necessity of reducing the corporate limits of the City of Paducah as above proposed shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption. SL,-",, i 1�1_L�_ Pdayor�rotem / J. C. Williams, ommissioner Passed by the hoard of Commissioners, May 7th, 1946 Recorded by Rudy Stewart, City Clerk, May 7th, 1946.