§ 12-3.1. Ward defined.  


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  • The City of York shall and hereby is divided into four (4) wards. Each of the ward boundaries shall be designated as nearly as possible by corporate limits lines or by the center line of streets and avenues of the city as hereinafter described:

    (a)

    A line running generally north and south beginning at the northeast corner of the corporate limits, said corner also being the northeast corner of Irregular Tract 18 of Section 30, Township 11 North, Range 2 West of the 6th P.M., York County, Nebraska; thence south to the southeast corner of said Irregular Tract 18; thence southwesterly to the southwest corner of Irregular Tract 19 of said Section 30; thence south along a line parallel to the west line of the northeast quarter of said Section 30 to a point on the south line of the northeast quarter of said Section 30; thence east along the south line of Section 30 to a point 200 feet east of the south quarter corner of Section 30; thence south along a line which is 200 feet east of and parallel to the east line of the northwest quarter of Section 31, Township 11 North, Range 2 West of the 6th P.M., York County, Nebraska, to the point of intersection with the east-west quarter section line of said Section 31; thence west to the center point of said Section 31; thence south to the center line of Fourteenth Street; thence west to the center line of Iowa Avenue; thence south along the center line of Iowa Avenue to the point of intersection with the west line of the south half of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 6, Township 10 North, Range 2 West of the 6th P.M., York County, Nebraska; thence south to the corporate limits, all of which shall constitute line "A."

    (b)

    A line running generally east and west and described as follows: Beginning at the west corporate limits and the center line of Eighth Street; thence east to the center line of Division Avenue; thence north to the center line of Ninth Street; thence east to the center line of Kiplinger Avenue; thence south to the center line of Eighth Street; thence east to the center line of Delaware Avenue; thence north to the center line of Ninth Street; thence east to the corporate limits, all of which shall constitute line "B."

    (c)

    The two (2) above-described lines, one running generally north and south as line "A" and one running generally east and west as line "B," intersect at Ninth Street and Iowa Avenue, which shall constitute point of intersection.

    All of that portion of the city lying east of line "A" and north of line "B" shall constitute the first ward of said city. All of that portion of the city lying west of line "A" and north of line "B" shall constitute the second ward of said city. All of that portion of the city lying west of line "A" and south of line "B" shall constitute the third ward of said city. All of that portion of the city lying east of Line "A" and south of line "B" shall constitute the fourth ward of said city.

(Ord. No. 1433, § 1, 11-12-81)

Editor's note

In order to avoid duplicate section numbers, the editor has redesignated as § 12-3.1 material originally enacted by Ord. No. 1433 to be § 12-3.