2500Prepared by and after Recording Return to:
Brenda Wheeler, City Clerk, City of Blair, 218 S. 16'x' Street, Blair, NE 68008 (402) 426-6694
ORDINANCE NO. 2500
COUNCIL MEMBER SCHANK INTRODUCED THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCE:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BLAIR, NEBRASKA; VACATING AND
ABANDONING GARFIELD LOOP RIGHT-OF-WAY ADJACENT TO LOTS 1 THROUGH
18, ELK RIDGE SUBDIVISION AND GARFILED CIRCLE RIGHT-OF-WAY ADJACENT TO
LOTS 19 THORUGH 28, ELK RIDGE SUBDIVISION, WASHINGTON COUNTY,
NEBRASKA, AS ATTACHED TO "EXHIBIT A" BEING REPLATTED INTO ELK RIDGE
SUBDIVISION REPLAT 1, WASHINTON COUNTY, NEBRASKA; REPLEALING ALL
ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, PROVIDING
WHEN THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT AND PUBLISHED
IN PAMPHLET FORM.
WHEREAS, Nebraska Revised Statute § 16-661 authorizes the City Council or its agent to
initiate vacation of any public right of way; and
WHEREAS, this area was previously dedicated to the public use by the plat for Elk Ridge
Subdivision in the City of Blair, Washington County, Nebraska filed on January 13, 2023 as a
public street; and
WHEREAS, the proposed plat of Elk Ridge Subdivision has been replatted on April 11,
2023, it is in the public interest that said right of way be abandoned and vacated as right of way
and as public property and be released from any and every public right, use, title, interest, if any,
except as hereinafter provided;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF BLAIR, NEBRASKA, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. ABANDONMENT. It is hereby determined that the property hereinafter
described is no longer useful or needed as a right of way, and it is in the public interest that said
right of way be abandoned and vacated as right of way and as public property and be released from
any and every public right, use, title, interest. Said property is described and depicted in
Attachment A, attached hereto, and is by reference incorporated herein.
SECTION 2. CERTIFIED COPY. Within thirty (30) days after the effective date of the
vacation, the City of Blair shall file a certified copy of the vacating ordinance with the Washington
County Register of Deeds in which the vacated property is located to be indexed against all affected
lots.
SECTION 3. EASEMENTS. The City of Blair reserves the right to maintain, operate,
repair, and renew public utilities existing at the time title to the property is vacated there; and there
is reserved to the City of Blair any public utilities and any cable television systems the right to
maintain, repair, renew, and operate water mains, gas mains, pole lines, conduits, electrical
transmission lines, sound and signal transmission lines, and other similar services and equipment
and appurtenances, including lateral connections or branch lines, above, on, or below the surface
of the ground that are existing as valid easements at the time title to the property is vacated for the
purposes of serving the general public or the abutting properties and to enter upon the premises to
accomplish such purposes at any and all reasonable times; and there is reserved to the City of Blair
any easements to conduct snow removal, or any other maintenance of the right of way for any
existing easements at the time title to the property is vacated for the purposes of serving the general
public or the abutting properties and to enter upon the premises to accomplish such purposes at
any and all times.
SECTION 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and following the
passage and publication hereof as required by law.
PASSED AND APPROVED this I Ith day of April 2023.
CITY OF BLAIR, NEBRASKA
By.
MELIIIADA(k. RfA4P, MAYOR
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
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BRENDA WHEELER, hereby certifies that she is the duly appointed, qualified and acting City
Cleric of the City of Blair, Nebraska, and that the above and foregoing Ordinance was passed and
approved at a regular meeting of the Mayor and City Council of said City held on the 11th day of
April, 2023.
BRENDA WHEELER, CITY CLERK
State of Nebraska, County of Washington
Chris Rhoades, Being by me first duly sworn,
deposes and says that he is the Associate
Publisher of the Pilot -Tribune , a legal weekly
newspaper printed and published at Blair, in
Washington County, Nebraska and of general
circulation in said County and State: that said
newspaper has a bona fide circulation of more
than 3000 copies weekly, in said County: and
has been published in said County for more
than 52 successive weeks prior to the first
publication of the attached notice, that the
attached notice was published in said
newspaper for 1 consecutive week(s) being
the issues of.
4/18/2023
^aDate(s)
Chris i3h a s, Associate Publisher
Subscribed in my presence, and sworn to
before me this date:
April 18, 2023
Notary
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