(A) Assignment of official permanent property addresses.
(1) All residences; commercial; industrial; and public structures located in the county shall be assigned a permanent city-type street address. Structures located on the south side of an east-west street/road and those located on the west side of a north-south street/road shall have an even numbered property address. Structures located on the north side of an east-west street/road and those located on the east side of a north-south street/road shall have an odd number.
(2) Street addresses are to be assigned based on a measurement of the distance from the nearest grid line to the main accessway or drive to the structure. A structure shall always be addressed to the street/road where the main accessway intersects.
(B) Determining a property address. An official street address shall contain no more than five digits with the first digit, or the first two digits if the structure is located ten or more miles from the north-south baseline, indicating the milepost or distance from the base lines. The second or third digit shall indicate the block number which will change each 528 linear feet. The last two digits indicate the number of ten and fifty-six hundredths foot intervals from the structure to the nearest block or grid line.
(C) Placement and size of address numbers. Once a property address has been assigned to a specific structure, it shall be the responsibility of the property owner or resident to provide the address number on the structure or on the mailbox or mailbox post in rural areas, or on a sign facing the street/road. Numbers are to be placed on structures in a location which faces the street upon which it is addressed. The numbers and the complete address if desired should be placed on the structure near a main entry door or on a cornice, porch and the like located above the main entry door. The letters should be located at least five feet above the threshold on the right side of any entrance door. On rural mailboxes, the numbers and lettering shall be located on the mailbox or the mailbox post. Numbers and lettering shall be located on both sides of the mailbox or the mailbox post. In all situations property number lettering shall exceed one inch in vertical height and the color of the letters shall contract with the background of the mailbox or mailbox post in order to be readable. Street address numbers and lettering should be placed in a visible location on all residential, commercial, industrial and public structures on or before June 1, 1992.
(Ord. 91-8-19, passed 8-19-1991; Ord. passed 12-3-2001)