[Ord. No. 49 § 1240, c.a. 1918; Ord. No. 82 § 1, 11-5-1920; Ord. No. 84 § 1, 3-1-1921; Ord. No. 1347 § 1, 2-16-1987; Ord. No. 2149 § 1, 5-21-2001]
For the purpose of numbering the houses and buildings in the City, Rollins Street shall be the base for numbers running east and west therefrom, and Singleton Street shall be the base for numbers running north and south therefrom. The numbers shall begin at Number 101 at such base lines or streets and run therefrom east, west, north or south as the case may be. The odd numbers shall apply to the north and west sides of the streets, and the even numbers shall apply to the south and east sides of the streets, increasing at the rate of one hundred (100) numbers to each and every block or distance between two (2) streets. This rule shall apply to both sides of such streets, whether the intersecting street crosses the same or not. Within a block, the City Administrator shall assign a number to each house and building consistent with the provisions set forth above. The City Administrator shall hereafter keep a written record of the numbers assigned to each house and building. For an address assigned to a house or building on a corner lot, the address shall be assigned according to the street along the front yard of the lot containing the house or building, except that at the request of the owner, the City Administrator may, at the discretion of the City Administrator, assign an address for the house or building appropriate for the side street, provided however, that such side street address shall be independent of and not exempt the house or building from any provisions of Chapter 31 of the Centralia City Code relating to the designation of a front yard.
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Cross Reference — As to zoning, see ch. 31 of this Code.
[Repealed by Ord. No. 1347 § 2, 2-16-1987]
 
[Ord. No. 49 § 1242, c.a. 1918; Ord. No. 1347 § 3, 2-16-1987]
All persons owning a house or building in this City are hereby required to number the same in conformity with the provisions of this Chapter. Only Arabic numerals shall be used to number houses and buildings. Therefore, no numbers shall be in written form using letters of the alphabet, except letters of the alphabet may be used for part of the number when one or more letters are part of the house number or building number, such as to designate apartments within a building. All house and building numbers shall be not less than three (3) inches in height, legible, and shall be placed conspicuously on, above, at the side of or near a door of the house or building that fronts or is adjacent to a street, so that such number may be readily seen from such street. The house and building numbers shall be black or a contrasting color to the color of the part of the house or building to which the numbers are attached or affixed.
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State Law Reference — Also see RSMo. § 67.318.
[Ord. No. 49 § 1243, c.a. 1918; Ord. No. 1347 § 4, 2-16-1987]
Any person owning a house or building who fails to correctly number his house or building in conformity with the provisions of this Chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person owning a house or building being constructed shall obtain a number for that house or building from the City Clerk and shall correctly number the house or building in conformity with the provisions of this Chapter before a Certificate of Occupancy for that house or building will be granted by the City.
[Ord. No. 49 § 1245, c.a. 1918]
The names of the various streets in the City shall be as now platted and dedicated or established by law or ordinance, or as may be hereafter platted and dedicated or established by law, ordinance or condemnation; provided, that in platting any addition within or to the City, the extension of all streets now existing, by reason of laying out any such addition, shall be known by the name of the street of which the same forms an extension.
[Ord. No. 49 § 1246, c.a. 1918; Ord. No. 1269 § 1, 12-16-1985]
Whenever it is deemed necessary by the Board of Aldermen to change the name of any street or avenue, the Board of Aldermen shall, by resolution, declare such proposed change of name necessary to be made, and shall cause such resolution to be published at least one (1) week in some newspaper published in this City. If, within four (4) weeks after such publication, a majority of the resident owners along the line of such street or avenue do not file with the City Clerk their written protest against such proposed change of name, then the Board of Aldermen shall have the power, by ordinance, to change the name of such street or avenue in accordance with the terms of such resolution. Upon the passage and approval of such ordinance, the City Clerk shall file with the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County a certified copy of such ordinance, and such recorder shall record the same upon the records of the County.
[Ord. No. 49 § 1247, c.a. 1918]
The Board of Aldermen shall, as soon as practicable after the taking effect of Ordinance No. 49, procure and erect at every street intersection within the corporate limits metal or enamel names designating the two (2) streets forming the intersection and designating whether the east or west, north or south ends of the streets are intersecting. These street names shall be placed at a height of seven (7) feet from the ground and may be placed upon telegraph or electric light poles where the same are properly situated or upon posts to be erected by the City. They shall be placed upon the most conspicuous corner of the four (4) corners at such intersection and nearer the sidewalk upon which there is the most travel upon the side of the pole or posts next to the street to be designated by such name.
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Editor's Note — Ordinance No. 49, from which this article was taken, was part of the City's revised ordinances of 1918.