(A) All houses and buildings fronting on public streets in the city shall be numbered with the correct number, as is on record with the City Clerk, easily readable from the street. Assigned numbers shall be displayed with block or Arabic style numerals in a color that clearly contrasts with the background. Address displays in script style numbers are prohibited.
(B) Address numbers shall be a minimum of three inches high and shall be located either near the front or main entrance or on a surface that is easily readable from the street but not less than 24 inches from the ground. Additional displays of assigned numbers may be used. Houses or buildings that are set back more than 100 feet from the roads edge, shall be required to display address numbers within 25 feet of the same roads edge and within 20 feet of the driveway on a surface that is easily visible from, the street. Mailboxes and the poles that support them are only acceptable if it is the only one in front of the house or building.
(C) Any property owner erecting any house or building in the city shall report to the City Clerk the location thereof and procure the correct address number to be placed on said house or building or the City Clerk may deliver said number to the owner and notify the owner of the provisions in this subchapter.
(D) The responsibility for the displaying of the correct assigned number for each existing house and building in the city as of the effective date of this section shall rest with the property owner, trustee or agent of each house or building.
(E) Any person who shall fail to comply with any of the provisions of this section or who shall number, or attempt to number, any house or building other than in conformity with this section or who shall fail to exchange his or her number, if wrong, within 60 days of the effective date of this section and thereafter within 30 days after being notified in writing to do so by the Chief of Police, shall be responsible for a municipal civil infraction.
(Ord. 168, passed 6-5-2007; Ord. 191, passed - -) Penalty, see 154.99