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(A) Each lot and parcel of land or fraction thereof within the city which abuts upon any street shall have a street number; and even-numbers shall face their next consecutive odd-numbers on the opposite side of each street. The number of lineal feet along any street for which one number shall be designated may vary from one locality to another according to circumstances, but, in general, in business districts the assignment of one number for ten lineal feet is considered desirable, and in residential districts the assignment of one number for 25 lineal feet is considered desirable.
(B) The Street Commissioner shall prepare and maintain in his or her office for the benefit of the public, a street map of the city which shall show the street numbers of lots and parcels of land, and fractions thereof, which abut upon city streets.
(Prior Code, § 25-22)
(A) It shall be the duty of each owner of any building or other structure now standing or hereafter erected upon any premises abutting upon any street and to which premises a street number or numbers has been assigned pursuant to this subchapter to place and maintain upon or within the immediate vicinity of such building or structure the correct street number or numbers so assigned.
(B) In placing numbers upon or within the immediate vicinity of buildings and structures pursuant to division (A) above, property owners shall securely affix to or mark upon the outside thereof, at or near the entrance thereto, the correct Arabic numerals of the assigned street number or numbers, or, in lieu thereof, may erect and maintain an appropriate sign bearing such Arabic numerals unless such sign be prohibited by any other provision of this code or other ordinance; and, in either case, such numerals shall be of sufficient size, color, and legibility, and displayed at such a place upon the building or premises, as to be readily seen and easily read by an ordinarily observant person in a vehicle upon the center of the street which abuts such premises.
(Prior Code, § 25-23)
It shall be unlawful for any person, without proper authority, to alter, remove, obliterate, screen from view, or otherwise tamper with any street number which is in place pursuant to this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 25-25) Penalty, see § 154.999
EXCAVATIONS
No person shall dig or excavate in any street, sidewalk, or other like public place (hereinafter sometimes designated as “public place”) within the city, or install, repair, or replace any property or equipment in, or do any other work in or on, any such public place which requires the removal or breaking of the surface or under part of any such public place, unless and until such person shall have first procured, in the manner hereinafter provided, a permit so to do.
(Prior Code, § 25-26)
Statutory reference:
Authority to open streets, sidewalks, and public places, see W. Va. Code 8-12-5(2)
(A) For the purpose of granting permits under this subchapter, applicants shall be divided into two classes: the first class shall be constituted of all those to whom permission shall be given to execute a bond in lieu of the deposit in cash hereinafter set forth; and the second class shall be constituted of all those of whom a cash deposit shall be required. The Common Council may, from time to time as it sees fit, by appropriate resolutions, designate any person so making or about to make such application to be in the first class, and when so designated those in the first class may give the bond as hereinafter provided.
(B) Those persons who, immediately preceding the effective date of this code, comprised the “first class” under this section, shall continue in that class until otherwise provided by resolution of the Common Council.
(Prior Code, § 25-27)
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