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RESOLUTION NO. 9940
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE
CONDEMNATION OF CERTAIN PROPERTIES AND
DECLARING THE PUBLIC NECESSITY THEREFOR
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach is authorized by
virtue of the statutes of the State of California to take
properties by condemnation and to hold, use and enjoy these
properties as necessary to the full exercise of its power; and
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach is authorized by
virtue of Code of Civil Procedure Sections 1240.010, 1240.050,
1240.110, 1240.120, 1240.125, 1240.320, 1240.330, 1240.350,
1240.410, 1240.420, 1240.510 and 1240.610 and Government Code
Sections 40404, 37350, 37350.5, 39792 and 54341 to take real and
personal property by condemnation for oil drilling, pumping,
pass- through, storage and production purposes; and
WHEREAS, all persons whose names and addresses appear on
the last equalized assessment roll for the properties described
herein were given notice and an opportunity to be heard pursuant
to Code of Civil Procedure Section 1240.235; and
WHEREAS, a public hearing was held by the City Council
of the City of Newport Beach on December 22, 1980, at which the
• matters set forth in Code of Civil Procedure Section 1240.030
were discussed, including the following matters:
(a) Whether the public interest and necessity require
the project;
(b) Whether the project is planned and located in the
manner that will be most compatible with the
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• greatest public good and the least private injury;
and
k (c) Whether the properties; sought to be acquired (which
are described herein) are necessary for the
project,
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport
Beach does hereby resolve and find as follows:
Section 1. That the City Council, pursuant to
Government Code Sections 40404, 37350, 37350.5, 39792 and 54341
and Code of Civil Procedure Sections 1240.010, 1240.050,
1240.110, 1240.120, 1240.125, 1240.320, 1240.330, 1240.350,
1240.410, 1240.420, 1240.510 and 1240.610 is empowered to condemn
any real and personal property necessary to fulfill and carry out
the duties of the City. The City Council finds that the acquisi-
tion of the herein described properties is necessary to carry out
the duties of the City by drilling for, pumping, producing,
storing and transporting oil from the City -owned submerged
tideland areas adjacent to the City of Newport Beach, which
submerged tidelands were conveyed in trust to the City by the
State of California pursuant to Chapter 74 of the Statutes of
1978.
Section 2. That the City Council of the City of Newport
Beach hereby finds and determines that the public interest and
• necessity require for public use the acquisition of the proper-
ties herein described. The City Council further finds that the
•" public interest and necessity require the proposed project which
consists of the acquisition, construction, operation and main-
tenance by the city, of certain public improvements, to wit:
slant - drilled wells, pumping units, tanks, drill sites, oil
• transmission pipelines, and casings for the production of oil and
gas from the City's submerged tidelands trust areas.
Section 3. That the properties described herein are
located partly within the City of Newport Beach and partly within
the unincorporated area of the County of Orange and are necessary
for the proposed project, that the public interest requires the
proposed project, and that the project is located in a manner
most compatible with the greatest public good and the least
private injury. A description of the general location and extent
of the properties to be taken with sufficient details for
reasonable identification, together with the specific description
of each parcel, are set forth in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and
by this reference incorporated herein as though set foth at
length.
Section 4. That the interests to be acquired in the
real property are described in the description of each parcel set
forth in Exhibit "A."
Section 5. In the event negotiations for the purchase
of the properties described in Exhibit "A" are unsuccessful, the
law firm of Rutan & Tucker and /or Homer L. McCormick, Jr.,
Attorney at Law, special counsel for the City of Newport Beach,
and /or Hugh R. Coffin, City Attorney for the City of Newport
Beach, are hereby directed to bring action in the Superior Court
• of the State of California in the name of the City of Newport
Beach, to condemn, by eminent domain proceedings, these proper-
ties. These attorneys are authorized and, upon instruction by
the City Council, shall make an application to the above - entitled
court for an order fixing the amount. of security by way of money
deposits as the court may direct and for an order permitting the
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• City to take immediate possession and use of the herein described
real and personal properties for the! uses and purposes described
herein.
Section 6. The law firm of` Rutan & Tucker and /or Homer
L. McCormick, Jr., Attorney at Law, and /or Hugh R. Coffin, the
City Attorney for the City of Newport Beach, are hereby empowered
to incur, in the name of the City of`. Newport Beach, all expenses
and obligations incidental to the purposes of bringing and
litigating such action.
ADOPTED this 22nd day of December, 1980.
ATTEST: �O
City Clerk
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