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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF KANAWHA COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA Civil Action No. 2025-C-480 THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, a West Virginia municipal corporation, Petitioner, v. UNKNOWN HEIRS OF CLARA E. LAYNE, Respondent. ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of the above-styled action is to acquire an approximate fifteen-foot-wide permanent easement that runs eighty-one (81) feet (approximately 814 sq. ft. or 0.019 acre in total area) in length and a related temporary construction easement on Respondent’s real property by eminent domain. Petitioner has determined that acquisition of the real property interests is necessary to accomplish the purpose of rehabilitating, repairing and replacing the Sanitary Board of the City of Charleston’s sewer system in order to maintain adequate and reliable sewer service in and around the Magazine Branch area, through its Magazine Branch Project. Specifically, an approximate fifteen-foot-wide permanent easement is necessary to construct, install, maintain, operate, repair, replace, rehabilitate, line, and/or remove a sewer pipeline for use as part of Petitioner’s sewer system in, on and under Respondent’s real property and the related temporary easement is necessary for the initial construction and installation of the sewer line. In order to accomplish the Magazine Branch Project, Petitioner must appropriate, acquire and use a permanent easement and temporary easement in, on, across and over the Respondent’s real property designated as Parcel 15 of Tax Map 39 of the North Charleston District, Kanawha County, West Virginia, more particularly described in the Petition previously filed in this civil action. If the Respondent claims an interest in the real estate described in the above-styled action, they or any of them must serve upon Gerald M. Titus, III and Susan J. Riggs at 300 Kanawha Boulevard, East, Charleston, West Virginia 25301, an answer or other defense or statement of interest in the subject real property to the Petition filed in the above-captioned civil action on or before May 29, 2025 30 days from date of first publication , otherwise judgment by default will be taken against the Respondent at any time thereafter. A copy of said Petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk of the Circuit Court at 111 Court Street, Charleston, West Virginia 25301 or by calling the said Clerk’s office at 304-357-0440. Entered by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia this 10th day of April, 2025. Cathy S. Gatson Clerk of Kanawha County Circuit Court By: /s/ Maryclaire Akers LC-251052 04-29/05-06;2025