(a) All businesses, houses and dwellings situated within the corporate limits of the City shall be numbered in the manner as set forth in this section and according to the system prescribed in this section.
(b) The owner, agent, lessee, occupant or other person having control of and/or ownership of any business, house, dwelling, or building or other structure in the City upon a street to which street numbers have been assigned shall cause the proper Arabic numbers to be placed on and continuously maintained on the fanlight, transom, door, entrance, steps or gate, or conspicuous place on the front of such building, dwelling, house or other structure in such a manner that the number may at all times be legible and visible from the street pavement in front of such building, dwelling, house or other structure. If a building, dwelling, house or other structure stands back more than forty-five feet from the front lot line, the numbers shall be conspicuously displayed at or near the walk, driveway or common entrance to such building, dwelling, house or other structure at the streetline or on a gate post, fence, tree or post or other appropriate place so as to be legible and visible from the street pavement. Such requirement of conspicuous display of the numbers on such building, dwelling, house or other structure standing back more than forty-five feet from the front lot line shall not be interpreted or construed to mean that the numbers need not be placed on the building, dwelling, house or other structure as set forth hereinabove but shall require a second numbering as set forth herein. As used in this section, “front” means that side of the building, dwelling, house or other structure which faces the street on which the number of the building or premises on which such building, dwelling, house or other structure is situated, has been allotted, and that the numbers shall be displayed on such side of such building, dwelling, house or other structure and/or premises.
(c) No person, corporation or other entity without just cause shall remove, alter or deface any house number properly assigned and placed on or near a building, dwelling, house or other structure. Nor shall any person, corporation or entity without just cause place or retain on any building, dwelling, house or other structure any number other than the number duly assigned if such additional number could reasonably be mistaken for the assigned street number.
(d) All owners of any building, dwelling, business, house or other structure, office or tenement blocks of buildings, having two or more stories therein shall have numbers affixed to all rooms above the first story and have permanently affixed and placed on the side or sides of the first entrance or stairway adjacent to any street, a complete directory of the businesses, firms, offices, tenants or lessees occupying the upper stories of such businesses, offices, or tenement blocks, or buildings. The directory shall be placed affixed in a conspicuous position and so arranged as to have the names or other designations thereon easily changed. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to single family residence dwellings.
(e) No person, corporation or entity shall fail to install or maintain the proper numbers and/or directories as required by this section. The numbers shall be Arabic, shall not be less than three inches in height and the color of numbers shall contrast with the color of the surface on which they are mounted, applied or appear and shall be visible and legible from the sidewalk and street. The owner, agent, lessee, occupant or other person having ownership and/or control of such building, dwelling, house or other structure, may post additional sets of address numbers provided that one set complies with the provisions of this section.
(f) Whoever violates or fails to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Any such violation or failure to comply with the terms of this section shall constitute a separate offense on each successive day such violation or failure to comply is continued. (Ord. 67-90. Passed 6-26-90.)