CHAPTER 4. BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTIONCHAPTER 4. BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION\Article 6. Numbering Buildings

All lots, parts of lots and other property abutting on any street or avenue shall be numbered. The plan of numbering so far as practicable shall be known as the Philadelphia plan.

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Penn Avenue shall constitute the base line for all numbering on streets running east and west, and Commercial Street shall constitute the baseline for all streets running north and south.

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In the business district, from the corner of each block nearest its respective baseline each 12-1/2 feet of frontage shall be given a number.

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In the residence district comprising all of the municipality outside of the business district, from the corner of each block next to its respective baseline, each 50 feet of frontage shall be given a number, except where lots vary from 50 feet in width such lots shall be numbered to conform to the size of the lots. Where two dwellings are located on the same lot, the second dwelling shall have the same number as the first with the number “1 /2” added.

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All lots, parts of lots, houses and places of business on those portions of any street extending north and south and being north of Commercial Street baseline shall be known and designated as North, and all located south of Commercial Street baseline shall be known and designated as South. Ail streets located on all those portions of any street extending east and west and being east of Penn Avenue baseline shall be known and designated as East and all west of Penn Avenue baseline shall be known and designated as West. The prefixes to be placed before the proper name of the street, as “North Penn Avenue” or “East Commercial Street”.

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On all streets the numbers shall run in consecutive order, alternating from side to side. The odd numbers shall be on the right hand side of the street when going away from the baseline; or on the east side of the streets, running north from Commercial Street; and on the west side of the streets running south from Commercial Street; and on the north side of the streets running west from Penn Avenue; and on the south side of the street running east from Penn Avenue.

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(a)   The numbers shall run one hundred to each block or distance between two street intersections on the same street.

(b)   Where the streets intersect, but do not cross, the numbers shall run in each case to a street intersecting on both sides of the street being numbered.

(c)   The respective blocks located upon the streets which do not intersect the baseline shall bear the hundred number of the corresponding block nearest the same location on the nearest street, extending in the same direction, which does intersect the baseline.

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In case of doubt or where a question arises as to the proper number to be assigned to any lot or building, the City Clerk shall decide the question and fix the number of such l0t or building.

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All buildings now or hereafter erected fronting on any street or alley shall have conspicuously placed on such buildings, the number as provided in this article.

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The number plate placed upon any building shall be placed upon the front of the building, doorpost, transom or other place. The numbers shall be at least three inches in height so as to be easily seen from the street.

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Anyone violating any provisions of this article shall, upon conviction, be subject to imprisonment not to exceed 30 days, or a fine not exceeding $100. Whenever the fine imposed for the violation of this article is not paid, the person convicted may be committed to jail until the fine is paid.

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