Chapter 11.04
HOUSE NUMBERING SYSTEM
Sections:
11.04.010 House numbers required.
11.04.020 Assignment of numbers.
11.04.030 Duty of street superintendent.
11.04.010 House numbers required.
It shall be the duty of the owner, agents, lessor or occupant of every house or other buildings, except barns, garages and other buildings which are part of the same property with a numbered house or buildings, to place on every such building its proper street number either by painting or by affixing such numbers in metal, glass or other form, so that the same shall be clearly visible from the street. Numbers shall be placed on such houses and buildings within thirty days from the time said owners agents, lessors or occupants are notified either by mail, publication or telephone of the assignment of numbers to said houses as hereinafter provided. (Ord. 635 § 1, 1965)
11.04.020 Assignment of numbers.
Numbers shall be assigned to houses and buildings from Boundary Street and Cherry Street as bases, and in the following manner:
All houses and buildings situated within the first block south of Boundary Street on all intersecting streets shall be given numbers between one and ninety-nine inclusive; within the second block numbers between one hundred and one hundred ninety-nine inclusive shall be used, and so on in each succeeding block.
On streets intersecting Cherry Street, numbers between one and ninety-nine inclusive shall be used within the first block from Cherry Street on either side, and each succeeding hundred in each succeeding block, with the addition of the word “east” or “west” to the street name as the case may be.
Odd numbers shall be used on the west and north sides of the streets and even numbers on the east and south sides, respectively.
Within any block, the houses or buildings nearer the base street shall use the smaller numbers. In assigning numbers to houses and buildings between which one or more twenty-five foot lots lie unimproved, sufficient numbers shall be allowed for later assignment to such vacant lots. (Ord. 635 § 2, 1965)
11.04.030 Duty of street superintendent.
It shall be the duty of the street superintendent to assign numbers, as hereinbefore provided, to every house or other building in the city, and to report the numbers assigned to the next regular meeting of the city council. The council shall at once consider such report, and accept and by resolution approve the same with such revision and amendments as it may deem necessary. A copy of the report as approved, shall be filed with the resolution in the proceedings of the council; a copy of the report and resolution, properly certified, shall be attached to the plat of the city in the office of the register of deeds of Whatcom County and to the plat of the city in the office of the city of Sumas; and the members assigned may be entered upon the appropriate blocks and lots indicated on said plats. It shall be the duty of the city clerk-treasurer at once to notify the owners, agents, lessors or occupants of such houses or buildings either by mail, publication or telephone of the numbers so assigned. (Ord. 635 § 3, 1965)
11.04.040 Report of clerk.
Whenever any house or other building is to be erected hereafter, a number shall be assigned at the time the building permit is granted therefore. On or before the thirty-first day of January of each year hereafter it shall be the duty of the city clerk-treasurer to prepare certificates stating the new numbers assigned during the preceding calendar year, and send on to the register of deeds of Whatcom County for attaching to the plat of the city as aforesaid, and to attach another to the plat in the office of the city of Sumas. Such members may be appropriately entered upon said plats. (Ord. 635 § 4, 1965)