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Village of Whitefish Bay, WI
Milwaukee County
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[Adopted as Sec. 7.07 of the Codification]
The owner or occupant of every building in the Village of Whitefish Bay is hereby required to place in a conspicuous place on the front of each building, so as to be easily seen and read from the public way, the number indicated on the plan for numbering buildings now in effect or hereafter adopted by the Village Board and on file in the office of the Clerk-Treasurer of said Village; each figure of every such number shall be not less than two inches in height and with background not less than three inches in height.
A. 
On buildings to be constructed, numbers shall be indicated on the application for the building permit. The Village Manager shall cause numbers to placed on all newly constructed buildings or all existing buildings which have no numbers upon three days' notice to the owner thereof. The owner may elect within such three days' to provide his own number and shall have five days from such election in which to affix the number.
B. 
Numbers shall be furnished by the Village, except where the owner has elected to provide his own number. The cost of any number or numbers or replacements therefor shall be borne entirely by the owner or occupant of the building.
Where only one number is available for any house or building, the owner who shall desire distinctive numbers of the upper and lower portions of any such house or building shall use the suffix, A, B, C, etc., as may be required.
It shall be the duty of the owner, occupant or agent of every building to maintain no number other than the number as fixed by the plan for numbering buildings last adopted by the Village Board and on file in the office of the Village Clerk-Treasurer.