(a)
Each
owner, agent of the owner or occupant of any house situated in the
city shall place or permit to be placed thereon in some conspicuous
place on the outdoor, front portion of such house an official house
number, so that the number may be plainly seen and observed from the
adjacent street.
(b)
Each
owner, agent of the owner or the occupant of any house situated in
the city shall place or permit to be placed an official house number
in some conspicuous place on the outdoor, rear portion of such house,
so that the number may be plainly seen and observed from the adjacent
alley or alley easement.
(Ordinance 2013-0952 adopted 9/5/13)
All houses shall be considered officially numbered when numbered
in strict accordance and compliance with the terms of this article
and in accordance with the plat delineating and prescribing the method
of numbering houses and heretofore adopted and on file recorded in
the office of the building inspector of the city. The building inspector
of the city, upon application, shall give the proper number for houses
to persons requesting the same. Such persons shall be required to
state the street upon which the house is situated and the direction
and distance the same is situated from the nearest cross street.
(1992 Code, sec. 3.1102)
The owner of any house shall have an official number placed
thereon. In case the owner is a nonresident of the city, the agent
of the owner or the occupant of such house, when such agent or occupant
is notified by the building inspector, shall place such official number
on the house; provided, that such agent or occupant so notified shall
be allowed five (5) days’ time from the date of the receipt
of the notice to place such official number of the house.
(1992 Code, sec. 3.1103)
The official number required by this article shall be at least
three (3) inches high and composed of bright metal which will not
tarnish or corrode on account of the action of the elements, aluminum
numbers being preferable; provided, that in case the city council
should determine to do the official numbering, then the official numbers
shall be composed of such material and be of such size and character
as may be adopted by the city council; provided further, that nothing
herein shall prohibit any number from being painted by any person
when such character of material is used as will, in the judgment of
the building inspector of the city, be equal in strength, durability
and service to the metal number required by this section; and provided
further, that all such painted numbers shall be put in at the same
time that the city council places the official numbers.
(1992 Code, sec. 3.1104)
(a)
The
city council, may, if deemed advisable, officially number the houses
within the city and for such purpose may employ such persons as the
city council deem suitable to do and perform such work and may prescribe
the compensation to be paid such persons. All persons owning or occupying
any house shall permit such persons to freely enter thereon for the
purpose of doing and performing such work of officially numbering
any house.
(b)
In
case the city council determines to do the work of officially numbering
the houses within the city, the official numbers shall be furnished
free of charge. No person shall charge any tenant, occupant or owner
of any house any compensation for such official number.
(c)
In
the event the city council shall determine to do the work of officially
numbering the houses within the city, each official number shall be
placed on each house in the manner provided by this section and no
person shall thereafter willfully deface, injure or remove any such
official number from the place so fixed by the official numberers;
provided, that a person shall have the right to remove such numbers
when altering or changing the house and place such number temporarily
at some other part of such house where it will show conspicuously
from the street.
(d)
In
case the city council determines to do the work of officially numbering
the houses of the city, the owner, occupant or tenant shall not be
liable for a failure to place any number on any house, as required
by this article, during such time.
(1992 Code, sec. 3.1105)
After an official number has been placed on a house by the city,
under the discretion of the city council, no person shall fail to
keep an official number placed on any house owned or occupied by him/her.
(1992 Code, sec. 3.1106)
After the official numbering has been completed on all houses
of the city by the city council, persons thereafter erecting new houses
or occupying the same shall obtain an official number at their own
expense from the building inspector and place the same upon the house
in the manner provided by this article.
(1992 Code, sec. 3.1107)
The odd house numbers shall appear on the north side of, and
the even house numbers on the south side of, the streets running in
an easterly or westerly direction; and the odd house numbers shall
appear on the west side of, and the even house numbers on the east
side of, the other streets; provided, however, consecutive numbers
shall be assigned by the building inspector according to a series
pattern in shopping center areas when the names of such areas have
been designated by the city planning commission.
(1992 Code, sec. 3.1108)
(a)
The
basic unit of space for each house number shall be twenty-five (25)
feet; however, within shopping center areas mentioned above and within
business areas the unit of space shall be fifteen (15) feet where
the application of the twenty-five (25) foot unit is not feasible.
(b)
The
basic unit of the length of a block will be three hundred (300) feet,
where feasible.
(c)
Individual
dwelling units within apartment houses and projects shall have house
numbers assigned by the building inspector according to a standard
pattern when the locations of the structures have been indicated according
to the basic house numbering pattern set forth above.
(1992 Code, sec. 3.1109)
The intersection of Main Street and Palestine Street, as hereinafter
indicated, shall be the base line for the purpose of house numbering.
Each street running east and west or substantially in that course
shall, for the purpose of such numbering, have its beginning point
at the east and west sides of Main Street, the numbering to begin
at such initial point with the number of one hundred (100) and to
increase easterly and westerly to the city limits. Each street running
north and south or substantially with that course shall begin at the
north and south sides of Palestine Street, as the case may be, with
the number of one hundred (100) increasing north and south, as the
case may be, from such initial point to the city limits.
(1992 Code, sec. 3.1110)
