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INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMAN . �rQst,mil
ORDINANCE NO.
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, PROVIDING FOR
THE ASSIGNMENT AND REASSIGNMENT OF HOUSE NUMBERS FOR HOUSES AND
BUILDINGS IN THE CITY, REQUIRING THE ASSIGNMENT OF A HOUSE
NUMBER BEFORE THE ISSUANCE OF A BUILDING PERMIT, REQUIRING THE
USE ON ALL HOUSES OR BUILDINGS OF THE NUMBER ASSIGNED OR RE-
ASSIGNED, DECLARING VIOLATIONS OF THE ORDINANCE TO BE A MISDE-
MEANOR, PRESCRIBING A PENAL'T'Y FOR VIOLATIONS HEREOF, AND REPEAL-
ING ORDINANCE NUMBER 1279 OF THE CITY, RELATING TO THE SAME
SUBJECT.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COU14CIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON,
MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Official Numbers for Houses and Buildings . The
Director of Public Works shall establish a numbering system for
all buildings heretofore or hereafter erected in the city, or in
any area hereafter to be annexed into the city, and for all
vacant lots in the city in accordance with the numbering system
on the grid map shown on Appendix "A" attached hereto and made a
` part of this ordinance.
SECTION 2. Assignment of Official Numbers. The Director of �
Public Works shall assign street numbers to houses, buildings or
vacant lots in the city, upon request of the owner. (s) thereof, or
whenever, in the opinion of the Director of Public Works, it would
be in the public interest to do so.
SECTION 3 . Reassignment of Official Numbers . To attain
uniformity in -the street numbering system in all areas of the cit
and to eliminate inconsistencies in the numbering of houses,
J buildings and vacant lots existing in the city, and to secure
conformity in the street numbering system according to the grid
map, marked Appendix "A" and attached hereto, the Director of i
Public Works shall reassign official numbers, after giving notice
thereof as hereinafter provided.
SECTION 4. Notice of Reassigned Numbers; Compliance. The
Director of Public Works shall notify, in writing, the ownei: (s)
or occupant (s) of any house, building or vacant lot abutting any
street or alley in the city of the official street number re-
assigned thereto. The notice shall be delivered in person or by
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United States mail.
The person to whom the written notice is addressed shall
have 60 days from the date of the notice to re-
number the house, building or vacant lot described or specified
therein.
SECTION 5. Building Permits Not To Be Issued. The Building ,
Commissioner shall not issue a building permit for the erection o$
any house or building requiring a street number in this city until
the applicant therefor has obtained from the Director of Public
Works an official street number for such house or building.
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SECTION 6. Display of Official Number. The owner (s) or
occupant (s) of each and every house or building in the city
shall be required to place in a conspicuous location numbers
which shall conform to the street number assigned or reassigned
thereto, in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance,
and said number shall be in sharp contrast to the house or build-
ing to which they are attached. if so desired, the owner or
occupant may post the street number in script according to the
provisions of this section.
SECTION 7 . Use of Unofficial Number Prohibited. it shall
be unlawful for any owner (s) or occupant (s) of any house, build-
ing or vacant lot to which an official number has heretofore or
shall hereafter be assigned or reassigned by the Director of Public
Works to use any other number for said house, building or vacant
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lot.
SECTION B. It shall be unlawful for the owner (s) or
occupant (s) of any house, building or vacant lot requiring a
street number, for which a street number has been reassigned
pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 and 4 hereof, to fail to
display the official street number reassigned thereto within the
time provided therefor in the written notice of reassignment.
SECTION 9. Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation
,. violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed
-'y guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined not less than one ($1.00) dollar nor more than twenty-five
($25.00) for said violation, and each and every day the violation
continues shall be considered a distinct and separate violation.
SECTION 10. ReUeal Clause. Section 1279 of the Revised
Ordinances of the City of Jefferson, Missouri, relating to house
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numbers, is, and it is hereby repealed.
f SECTION 11. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take
effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.
Passed Approved ZZI
Pre i ent of e Coun A-V 1 Ma
Attest
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