City of Monroe, LA

ORDINANCE

STATE OF LOUISIANA

CITY OF MONROE                                                                                                                    NO.  12,050     

            The following Ordinance was offered by Mrs.  Dawson                      who moved for its adoption and was seconded by Mr.  Marshall                    :

WHEREAS, the City of Monroe, in accordance with LA R.S. 47:2236, intends to acquire full ownership of the following lots:

LOTS 7 & 8, SQ 14, Arents Resub Lots 14 & 15 Stubbs Youngs Bayou Addition, Monroe, LA. – R#51802 & 51804 – Municipal Address: 108 S. 20^th St. and 110 S. 20^th St., Monroe, LA

            WHEREAS, the above described property was adjudicated to the City of Monroe, Louisiana for non-payment of 2015 Ad Valorem Taxes by Adjudication Deed dated and filed June 30, 2016 in Conveyance Book 2469 at page 890 & 892 of the Records of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana and adjudicated to the City of Monroe, Louisiana.  The 2015 Ad Valorem Taxes forming the basis for the described adjudication was validly assessed by the City of Monroe against Hannah Luffey Properties LLC, and

WHEREAS, that a copy of the ordinance shall be filed with the recorder of mortgages, Ouachita Parish, and that within 30 days thereafter, the City of Monroe shall send a written notice regarding the acquisition to the tax sale parties whose interest the political subdivision intends to be terminated that the party has until the end of sixty (60) days from the date of the notice to redeem the property or otherwise challenge in a court of competent jurisdiction the acquisition, and

WHEREAS, that this notice shall constitute a notice of sale.  The sending of this notice shall constitute service of the notice of sale under Article VII, Section 25 of the Constitution of Louisiana, and

WHEREAS, that notice shall be published in the official journal of the City of Monroe, The News Star, that any tax sale party whose interest will be terminated has sixty (60) days from the date of publication to redeem the property or otherwise challenge in a court of competent jurisdiction the acquisition.

            ORDINANCE INTRODUCED on the  13th      day of April 2021.

            NOTICE PUBLISHED on the  16th       day of April 2021.

            This Ordinance having been submitted in writing, introduced and published, was then submitted to a vote as a whole, the vote thereon being as follows:

            AYES:             Harvey, Ezernack, Woods, Marshall & Dawson

            NAYS:             None.

            ABSENT:         None.

            And the Ordinance was declared ADOPTED on the  27th      day of  April          , 2021.

Douglas Harvey                       

CHAIRMAN

Carolus S. Riley                      

CITY CLERK

Oliver Friday Ellis                                                                    

MAYOR’S APPROVAL 

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MAYOR’S VETO