The inhabitants of the City of Calverton 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 Calverton 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.
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Editor's Note: In the election of 11-4-2014, proposed by Ord. No. 717, adopted 10-6-2014, the electors of the City of Calverton Park elected by a majority vote to become a City of the Fourth Class, to be effective 11-24-2014.
A. 
The Seal of the City of Calverton Park shall be circular in form, one and seven-eighths (1 7/8) inches in diameter, with the words "St. Louis County, Missouri" engraved across the face thereof, and the words "Seal of the City of Calverton 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 Calverton Park.
B. 
The City Clerk shall be the keeper of the common Seal of the City of Calverton 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.
[R.O. 2006 § 100.025; CC 1987 §110.020]
The boundaries of the City are as constituted and shown by the records of the Recorder's office of St. Louis County, Missouri, and the records of the City.