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RESOLUTION NO. /~ 7/
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A RESOLUTION authorizing the recognition of the vacated
status of certain platted streets in annexed areas.
WHEREAS, in areas annexed to the original townsite there
are a number of plats which have been vacated by operation of law
prior to 19~ and
WHEREAS, the public easement in streets and alleys which
have not been opened for travel in such plats has been lost and
is vacated; and
WHEREAS, in order for owners of property abutting said va-
cated streets and alleys to obtain financing on said property, it
is necessary that there be some record establishing said vacation;
and
WHEREAS, the City Engineer is capable of determining
whether a street or alley has been opened for traffic, and the
City Attorney is capable of determining whether the plat involved
was recorded five years prior to 1909: now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, as follows:
Section 1. The City Attorney is hereby authorized to
allow consent judgments to be taken against the City in actions
brought against the City to quiet title to said vacated areas
when he shall have been advised in writing by the City Engineer
that said area has not been opened for travel and when he shall
determine from the records of the C1allam County Auditor that the
plat involved was on file for five years prior to 1909.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles and
approved by its Mayor at a regular meeting of the City Council on
the "-..21st
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day of September, 1971.
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Ci ty Clerk
Approved as to form:
City Attorney