All buildings fronting on any of the public streets and avenues of the city shall be numbered.

(Ord. 3361, § 1, 10-16-07; Code 2016, Sec. 14-681)

(a)   The numbering shall be done under and in accordance with the following system:

(1)   The center of the public square shall be used as a basis for numbering.

(2)   All streets running east and west in the city east of north and south streets shall be numbered, commencing at the northwest corner of the blocks abutting on the streets and numbering thence east on alternate numbers, the odd being placed on the south side of the streets and the even numbers on the north.

(3)   All streets running east and west, west of north and south streets shall be numbered commencing at the northeast corners of the blocks abutting on the streets and numbering thence west in alternate numbers, the odd numbers being placed on the south side and the even numbers on the north side of the streets.

(4)   All the streets running north and south, south of east and west streets, shall be numbered in a similar manner, commencing at the northwest corner abutting on the street and numbering thence south, the odd numbers being placed on the east side and all even numbers on the west side of such streets.

(5)   All streets running north and south, north of east and west streets shall be numbered in a similar manner commencing at the southwest corner of the blocks abutting on the west side of the streets.

(b)   However, the numbering shall be arranged so as to make each block receding from the public square number 100 more than the preceding block and allowing each 25 feet to one number.

(Ord. 3361, § 1, 10-16-07; Code 2016, Sec. 14-682)

It shall be the duty of the owners or agents of any house within the city limits not properly numbered to put up and keep upon, and in front of, their house a number corresponding with the number shown upon the plat to be kept on file in the office of the city clerk sufficiently large and plain to be easily read from the opposite side of the street upon which the house is situated.

(Ord. 3361, § 1, 10-16-07; Code 2016, Sec. 14-683)

When any person shall build upon a vacant lot on any of the streets within the city limits the person shall within ten days after the occupancy of the building comply with section 4-403.

(Ord. 3361, § 1, 10-16-07; Code 2016, Sec. 14-684)

The city clerk shall keep in the city clerk’s office a plat of the city showing the number that each 25 feet of ground facing upon any street is entitled to, and shall, upon application by the owner or agent of any building, inform the owner or agent of the number such building is entitled to.

(Ord. 3361, § 1, 10-16-07; Code 2016, Sec. 14-685)

If the owner of any building shall have failed to comply with the provisions of this article in causing the building to be properly numbered, the city may cause the numbering to be done and charge the costs to the premises so numbered, and collect the cost of the numbering as other city taxes are collected.

(Ord. 3361, § 1, 10-16-07; Code 2016, Sec. 14-686)