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§ 151.01 PLAN ADOPTED.
   (A)   The plan known as the Philadelphia plan system of numbering houses is adopted in the city.
   (B)   The Philadelphia plan of numbering houses, as adopted, is as follows:
      (1)   Streets running north and south shall be divided by Main Street as a base, with odd numbers on the west side and even numbers on the east side and all streets extending north of Main Street shall be numbered north and all streets extending south of Main Street shall be numbered south.
      (2)   Streets running east and west shall be divided by Broadway Street, as a base, with odd numbers on the south side and even numbers on the north side and all streets extending east of Broadway shall be numbered east and all streets extending west of Broadway shall be numbered west.
      (3)   Streets extending north and south of Main Street and all streets extending east and west of Broadway shall begin to number with 100 as a basis for even numbers and 101 as a basis for odd numbers and each 20 feet along the front property line of any street shall constitute a separate number, provided, that the distance between any two cross streets on each block shall constitute a separate serial of 100 and that each cross street or block north or south from Main Street and each cross street or block east or west from Broadway shall begin to number with the corresponding hundred as a serial that it is distant removed from its base, allowing 100 as a serial for each block or the distance between two cross streets.
('76 Code, § 22-43) (Ord. passed 5-12-11)
§ 151.02 NUMBERING REQUIRED.
   The owners of all houses or buildings in the city are required to number their houses and buildings within the city in accordance with the plan set forth in this chapter; the numbers to be placed on a conspicuous part of each house or building and in figures not less than two inches in height.
('76 Code, § 22-44) (Ord. passed 5-12-11) Penalty, see § 151.99
§ 151.03 NOTICE TO OWNERS.
   On failure of the owner of any house or building within the city or his agent, to number the same as required in this chapter, the Street Commissioner of the city shall give such owner or his agent five days' notice in writing to number the same.
('76 Code, § 22-45) (Ord. passed 5-12-11)
§ 151.04 NUMBERING BY CITY ON OWNER'S NONCOMPLIANCE.
   If the owner or his agent shall fail to comply with the notice pursuant to § 151.03 within the time prescribed therein, then the city, by its officers and employees, shall enter on any such premises where such house or building is situated and number such house or building and the cost of such work and labor, including the cost of the numbers required, shall be at the expense of the owner of the premises whereon such work shall have been done and such expense shall constitute a lien on such property.
('76 Code, § 22-46) (Ord. passed 5-12-11)
§ 151.05 COLLECTION OF COSTS.
   (A)   Whenever the city, through its officers and employees, shall, pursuant to § 151.04, number any house or building on failure of the owner or his agent to comply with the notice as provided in § 151.03, the officer or employee performing such numbering or procuring the same to be done shall make out and file with the Clerk-Treasurer a certified itemized bill of such work and expense describing the premises upon and on account of which the work was done and the expense incurred, giving the date of such work and the name of the owner of the premises, which bill shall be retained by the Clerk-Treasurer.
   (B)   The Clerk-Treasurer shall at once notify the owner of such premises, or his agent, by mailing to his post office address a sealed written or printed notice stating the amount of such bill, and on what account the same was incurred and demanding payment, which notice shall be a demand for payment within ten days from the date of mailing such notice.
   (C)   In case the amount of such bill is not paid within such ten days from the date of mailing the notice, the expense shall become and the same is made a lien on the property described in the bill and Clerk-Treasurer shall place the amount of such bill on the tax duplicate against that property, indicating in the entry the date and account on which the expense shall have been incurred and that amount may be collected as delinquent taxes are collected or that lien may be foreclosed, or the city may bring suit for the amount of such bill in any court of competent jurisdiction against the owner of the premises and collect the same together with all costs and, on payment or collection of any such bill, together with all costs, such lien shall be satisfied and discharged and shall be so entered of record.
('76 Code, § 22-47) (Ord. passed 5-12-11)
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