[CC 1995 §100.010]
A.
The
inhabitants of the City of Crystal Lake Park, as its limits now are
or may hereafter be defined by law, shall be and continue a body corporate
by the name of "The City of Crystal Lake Park" and as such shall have
perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded,
defend and be defended in all courts of law and equity and in all
actions whatever; may receive and hold property, both real and personal,
within such City and may purchase, receive and hold real estate within
or without such City for the burial of the dead; and may purchase,
hold, lease, sell or otherwise dispose of any property, real or personal,
it now owns or may hereafter acquire; may receive bequests, gifts
and donations of all kinds of property; and may have and hold one
(1) common Seal and may break, change or alter the same at pleasure;
and may do any act, exercise any power and render any service which
contributes to the general welfare, and all courts of this State shall
take judicial notice thereof.
B.
Fourth Class City. On the twenty-fourth (24th) day of July
1957, the City of Crystal Lake Park became, and is now, a City of
the Fourth Class under the laws of the State of Missouri.
[CC 1995 §100.020; Ord. No. 1 Art. 1, 6-30-1938]
The corporate limits of the City of Crystal Lake Park shall
comprise all the territory situated in the County of St. Louis and
State of Missouri embraced within the following boundaries, to wit:
Beginning at the northwest corner of Crystal Springs Lake Park
Subdivision, a subdivision in the southwest ¼ of Section 23,
Township 45 North Range 5 East as per plat of said subdivision filed
for record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County,
Missouri, in Plat Book 18, Page 3, where said point intersects with
the east right-of-way line of the Bopp Road; running thence South
89 degrees 32' East 1335.50 feet more or less to the northeast corner
of said subdivision; thence South 0 degrees 12' West along east line
of said subdivision 1890.38 feet to the southeast corner of said subdivision;
thence North 89 degrees 29' West 1342 feet more or less to the southwest
corner of said subdivision; thence northwardly along the east right-of-way
line of the Bopp Road 0 degrees 46' East 1988.80 feet more or less
to the point of beginning containing sixty (60) acres more or less.
A.
The
Seal of the City of Crystal Lake Park shall be circular in form, one
and seven-eighths (1⅞) inches in diameter, with the words "St.
Louis County, Missouri" engraved across the face thereof, and the
words "Seal of the City of Crystal Lake Park" engraved on the face
thereof and near the outer edge of said Seal, and the same is hereby
declared to be adopted as the Seal of the City of Crystal Lake Park.
B.
The
City Clerk shall be the keeper of the common Seal of the City of Crystal
Lake Park, and any impression of said Seal to any contract or other
writing shall have no validity or binding obligation upon the City
unless such impression be accompanied by the attestation and signature
of the City Clerk, and then only in cases authorized by law or the
ordinances of this City.
