(A) All property owners, residents, users or occupiers of houses or tenements within the city shall post on the front of the building or tenement identifying numbers conforming to the street address. The numbers shall be painted or affixed by some water-proof substance, contrasting in color to the background where affixed, of a minimum size of three inches and sufficient to be readily visible and legible by a person possessing 20/20 vision from the street fronting the house or tenement. An owner, resident, user or occupier of a house or tenement may satisfy the requirement of this section by erecting and maintaining a sign in the yard abutting the public right-of-way that meets all other requirements of this section.
(B) An owner, resident, user or occupier of a house or tenement shall satisfy the requirements of division (A) above by displaying the identifying street number on a mailbox so long as the number is readily visible from each direction on the street fronting the house or tenement and the mailbox on which the number is affixed is physically located and maintained on the same property as the house or tenement referred to in division (A) above.
(C) (1) In addition to the identifying numbers required in division (A) above, all owners of property used as an apartment complex shall prominently display permanent signs on each building within the complex identifying all units in the building. As used in this division (C), the term APARTMENT COMPLEX shall include two or more multi-family buildings under common ownership or management; a MULTI-FAMILY BUILDING is any building containing more than two living units.
(2) An owner may satisfy the requirements of this division (C) by erecting and maintaining a sign in the yard of each building in the complex so long as the sign shall display the identifying number for each unit in the building in a fashion so as to be readily visible from the street.
(D) No person shall remove, alter or deface any street identifying number conforming to the terms of this section.
(1984 Code, § 152.80) (Ord. O-11-94, passed 4-12-1994) Penalty, see § 152.99