Chapter 4 · Buildings and Construction

Article 6. House Numbering

Sections 4-601 to 4-604 · 4 sections

4-601 Numbering required.

All persons owning, occupying or having control of houses or buildings fronting on or facing any of the public avenues or streets of the city are hereby required to number the same in conformity of the provisions of this article.

(Code 2005, 7-1000s; Code 2020)

4-602 Method of numbering.

(a)For the purpose of this article, the city is hereby divided into an east and west side and Factory Street is hereby declared to be the dividing line. The numbers to be given any house or building fronting on any street running east and west shall be ascertained by commencing at Factory Street with the number 100 and numbering thence east and west allowing 100 numbers for each block or fraction thereof and placing even numbers on the north side of the street and odd numbers on the corresponding south side of the streets west of Factory Street and east of Factory Street.

(b)For the purpose of this article, the city is hereby divided into an north and south side and First Street is hereby declared to be the dividing line. The numbers to be given any house or building fronting on any street running north and south shall be ascertained by commencing at First Street with the number of 100 and numbering thence north and south allowing 100 numbers for each block or fraction thereof and placing even numbers on the east side of the street and odd numbers on the corresponding west side of the streets north of First Street and South of First Street.

(Code 2005, 7-1000s; Code 2020)

4-603 Size of numbers.

The figures of each number shall be not less than three inches high and two inches wide and shall be legible and conspicuously placed in the front of each house or building, and all houses which may hereafter be erected facing or fronting on any of the streets or avenues of the city shall be numbered by the owner, occupant or agent of the owner as provided in this article within 30 days after the same shall have been completed.

(Code 2005, 7-1000s; Code 2020)

4-604 Exception to the system.

The city code enforcement officer is authorized to establish such exceptions to the numbering system described in this article as may be necessary by the irregular routing of any street or avenue of the city.

(Code 2005, 7-1000s; Code 2020)