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This chapter sets the system for numbering houses, offices, stores, and other places of business in the city, and requires owners to display the assigned number.

Who this affects

Owners and occupants of dwellings, offices, stores, or other places of business, who must post their assigned number and can be required to pay for its placement if they fail to do so.

Key rules

• Numbers must be "plain and durable figures, placed upon the transom or top of the frame of the front door thereof or other conspicuous place."
• The city is divided by Norwegian and Centre Streets, with 100 numbers allotted to each block north and south of Norwegian Street and 100 numbers allotted to each block east and west from Centre Street.
• A number is allotted for each twenty (20) feet of ground.
• Even numbers are used on the north and east sides of streets, and odd numbers on the south and west sides.
• The City Engineer makes the allotment of the proper number to each house and keeps a record of it, and must furnish a resident with their house number upon application.
• The City Engineer must serve notice on anyone who has not complied with the numbering requirements.
• A person has ten (10) days after notice to place the assigned number on their property.

Penalties

If a person neglects or refuses to place the number within ten (10) days after notice, "the City Engineer shall cause the proper number to be placed thereon, and the expenses thereof shall be paid by the owner of the premises."

Notable and archaic details

• The numbering system dates to a 1966 ordinance (Ord. No. 72-66) and uses Norwegian and Centre Streets as the city's dividing axes.
• Numbering is tied to physical distance — one number for every twenty feet of ground — rather than to individual lots or buildings.