SECTION
1. Ordinances of city apply.
2. Authority of City Council to regulate by ordinance.
Editor’s note:
Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1 deleted in its entirety Article XXII, titled Meadow Park Lake, and replaced it with a new Article XXII by the same title.
Whereas, the City of Crossville in the County of Cumberland, State of Tennessee, under and by virtue of the powers and authority conferred upon it by law, acquired for municipal purposes that certain tract of land, now outside the corporate limits of said city, but situated in Cumberland County, and bounded and described as follows:
"Located in the First and Eighth Civil Districts of Cumberland County, Tennessee, beginning at a stake with post oak pointers standing in the old road to Meadow Creek Falls and in the south boundary line of Liebrock's 316 acre tract, and the northeast corner of 151 acres conveyed to said city by R. E. Holt; thence north 3 east 112 poles to a stone pile with dogwood and two black oak pointers on a hill side; thence north 86 west 100 poles to a stone pile with white oak, post oak, spotted oak, pine and dogwood pointers; thence south 3 west crossing Meadow Creek, in all 112 poles to a stone with white oak and two post oak pointers in the north line R. E. Holt 151 acre tract; thence north 86 3/4 west on said line, passing the corner at 40 poles in all 76 poles to a stone with black gum, red oak and hickory pointers, the northwest corner of 363 acres conveyed to the City of Crossville by Van Buren Coal & Lumber Company; thence with said line south 3 west 11.04 poles to a stone pile with two hickories, pointers, the northeast corner of 330 acres conveyed to said city by A. J. McGuire, Trustee, et al; thence on line of same north 89 west 278 poles to a stake, in the northwest corner of said tract; thence with the west line of same, south 3 west 185 poles to a stake, southwest corner of same and in south boundary line of Grant 4726; thence with said line north 87 west 55 poles to a stake, standing about south 87 east 4.2 poles to a stone with white oak pointers, of corner of said Van Buren Coal & Land Company; thence with same south 3 west 107.92 poles to a white oak, with chestnut oak and hickory pointers, the northwest of 116 acres conveyed to said city by J. B. Driver; thence with the west line of same, south 3 west 127 poles to a post oak with two post oak pointers on south bank of Old Ross Road; thence north 87 west 22.28 poles to a stake with spotted oak pointers; thence south 3 west 84 poles to a stake, with white oak, spotted oak, and post oak pointers; thence south 87 east 49 poles to a stake, with hickory and spotted oak pointers; thence north 20 east 78.52 poles to a stake in the center of the Ross Road, with two spotted oak pointers; thence eastwardly with center of said road, 78.46 poles to the southeast corner of said Driver tract; thence with said line 114 poles to a stake, another corner of said Drive tract; thence east with another line of same, 160 poles to a stake in the west line of 350.8 acres conveyed to said city by Moses E. Dorton, et als., thence with said line south 3 west 75 poles to a stone and pointers; thence with same south 87 east 234 poles to a stake with two chestnut and white oak and hickory pointers; thence with another line of same north 15 east 245.48 poles to a dead chestnut with hickory and white oak pointers; thence north 85 3/4 west 8.9 poles to a stone with post oak and white oak pointers southeast corner of said Holt tract; thence with a line of same north 15 west 176 poles to the beginning".
And whereas, the City of Crossville has built an expensive dam thereon, impounded surface water as well as the flow of streams, and thus created a lake thereon of approximately four hundred (400) acres, which is to supply water for the city and the citizens thereof as well as others who may come therein;
And whereas, the health, comfort, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the city as well as others who enter therein, necessitate, demand and require that the property be policed and controlled, and that all persons and property entering upon such tract of land be subject to the same laws and regulations now or hereafter in effect in the City of Crossville, Tennessee. (As amended by Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1)