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ORDINANCE NO. 71-11-573
AN ORDINANCE PROPOSING ANNEXATION OF CERTAIN PROPERTY LYING
ADJACENT TO THE EAST CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY,
DEFINING ACCURATELY THE BOUNDARY OF THE TERRITORY PROPOSED TO BE
ANNEXED, AND DECLARING THE DESIRABILITY AND NECESSITY OF SUCH ANNEXATION
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. It is hereby proposed that certain land lying adjacent
to the east corporate limits, more particularly described hereinafter,
be annexed to the City of Paducah, and that said property so proposed
to be annexed is accurately described as follows:
Beginning at a point where the present easterly city limits
intersects the northeasterly right-of-way line of the Paducah
Floodwall; thence in a southeasterly and southerly direction
with said floodwall right-of-way and the floodwall right-of-
way if extended to the southerly right-of-way line of the Belt -
line Highway; thence with the southerly line of said Highway
to the west line of Arizona Street; thence in a southerly direction
with said west line of Arizona Street to the north right-of-way
line of the I.C.R.R.; thence with the right-of-way of the
I.C.R.R, in a northwesterly direction to the present city limits
at the Benton Road; thence with said city limits line in a
northeasterly, easterly and northeasterly direction to the point
of beginning.
SECTION 2. It is hereby declared that extending the boundary of
the City of Paducah, Kentucky, by annexing the property described in
Section 1 hereof is desirable and necessary.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be published in the Sun -Democrat,
a newspaper in Paducah, Kentucky, as provided for and required by
Section 424.130 of Kentucky Revised Statutes, and the extension of the
city limits as herein proposed shall not become effective until the
adoption of an ordinance annexing the property described in Section 1
hereof, and such ordinance shall not be adopted until after publication
of this ordinance as provided herein and until the expiration of a
period of thirty days after the enactment of this ordinance.
Notice is hereby given under the provisions of Section 81.110
of Kentucky Revised Statutes that one or more residents or freeholders
of the herein territory proposed to be annexed may, within thirty days
after the enactment of this ordinance file a petition in the Circuit
Court of McCracken County, Kentucky, setting forth the reason why said
territory, or any part of it, shall not be annexed.
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SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after its adoption.
Mayor /
Passed by the Board of Commissioners November 23, 1971
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, November 23, 1971.