2017-0395
INTRODUCED BY: LARRY COCHRAN, PARISH PRESIDENT
ORDINANCE NO. _____________
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An ordinance to approve and authorize the Parish President to execute a Quitclaim Deed in favor of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. covering property identified as S/2 of Lots 823, 824, 825 and 826, Lots 833 to 840 inclusive, and the S/2 of Lots 841, 842 and 843, all in Section 26, Township 14 South, Range 20 East, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, and that portion of Lot 854 lying in Sec. 35, Township 14 South, Range 20 East, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, as shown on map of the Sunset Drainage District, formerly the St. Charles Municipal Drainage District, prepared by James S. Webb and John A. Kruse, Civil Engineers, dated December 1, 1925 (hereinafter referred to as the "Subject Property"), a copy of said map being on file in the office of the Clerk of Court of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana which property is more particularly described in the Quitclaim Deed attached hereto and made a part hereof, from St. Charles Parish, agreed to and accepted by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. ("Chevron").
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WHEREAS, Chevron's ownership in the Subject Property dates back to 1951. Chevron's corporate predecessor, The Texas Company, purchased over 8000 acres of property, including the Subject Property, by acquisition dated October 2, 1951 from Hibernia Bank & Trust Company, in Liquidation and Sunset Realty & Planting Company, Inc., the then holders of record title to the Subject Property. Since this acquisition, Chevron's corporate predecessors and Chevron have maintained continuous, open, uninterrupted, peaceable, public, and unequivocal possession of the Subject Property, and have timely paid all taxes due on the Subject Property; and,
WHEREAS, while Chevron and its predecessors have held title to the Subject Property since 1951, another chain of title for the Subject Property exists. This second chain of title began thirteen years after the 1951 transfer from Hibernia, et al to the Texas Co., Chevron's pr...
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