913.01 SYSTEM OF NAMING PUBLIC THOROUGHFARES.
   "Thoroughfare" means all public ways, whether heretofore designated as streets, avenues, alleys, places, roads or courts, used or opened for public travel, regardless of their present designation. All thoroughfares running in a general easterly and westerly direction shall be called "streets". All thoroughfares running in a general northerly and southerly direction shall be called "avenues". All diagonal thoroughfares shall be called "roads". All short or disconnected thoroughfares running in a general northerly and southerly direction shall be called "places". All short or disconnected thoroughfares running in a general easterly and westerly direction shall be called "courts". All curved thoroughfares shall be called "drives".
   All public thoroughfares in the City in the section bounded by East Market Street, North Park Avenue, the easterly City limits and the northerly City limits shall have the suffix N.E., meaning “northeast”, added to the names of such thoroughfares.
   All public thoroughfares in the City in the section bounded by East Market Street, South Park Avenue and the extension of Park Avenue southerly to the Mahoning River, and the Mahoning River, the southerly City limits and the easterly City limits shall have the suffix S.E., meaning "southeast", added to the names of such thoroughfares.
   All public thoroughfares in the City in the section bounded by North Park Avenue, West Market Street and the westerly City limits and the northerly City limits shall have the suffix N.W., meaning "northwest", added to the names of such thoroughfares.
   All public thoroughfares in the City in the section bounded by North Park Avenue, West Market Street and the westerly City limits and the northerly City limits shall have the suffix N.W., meaning "northwest", added to the names of such thoroughfares.
   All public thoroughfares in the City in the section bounded by West Market Street, South Park Avenue to the Mahoning River, the Mahoning River, the westerly City limits and the southerly City limits shall have the suffix S.W., meaning "southwest", added to the names of such thoroughfares.
(1963 Code §913.01)