[Ord. No. 2 §§ 1 — 2, 7-23-1941]
A. 
The Village shall be a body politic and corporate by the name of the Village of Uplands Park and shall by that name be known in law as granted by an order of the County Court of St. Louis County, Missouri, in the May term, 1941, on the 21st day of May, 1941.
B. 
The Village shall have perpetual succession unless disincorporated.
The Village of Uplands may sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded; defend and be defended in all courts and in all actions, pleas and matters whatsoever; may grant, purchase, hold and receive property, real and personal, within such Village and no other, burial grounds and cemeteries excepted; and may lease, sell and dispose of the same for the benefit of the Village, and may have a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure.
A. 
The Seal of the Village of Uplands 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 Village of Uplands 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 Village of Uplands Park.
B. 
The Village Clerk shall be the keeper of the common Seal of the Village of Uplands Park, and any impression of said Seal to any contract or other writing shall have no validity or binding obligation upon the Village unless such impression be accompanied by the attestation and signature of the Village Clerk, and then only in cases authorized by law or the ordinances of this Village.