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1988-0161826L NO 8y-D/ AN ORDINANCE REPEALING SECTION 21-13 OF ARTICLE I OF CHAPTER 21 (STREETS AND SIDEWALKS) OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF DENTON, ADDING SECTIONS 21-15 THROUGH 21-19 TO ARTICLE I OF CHAPTER 21 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TO PROVIDE FOR BUILDING, HOUSE AND APARTMENT NUMBERING, PROVIDING A PENALTY OF A FINE NOT TO EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, PROVIDING FOR A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS, HEREBY ORDAINS SECTION I That Section 21-13 of Article I of Chapter 21 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton is hereby repealed Ln its entirety SECTION II That the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton Ls hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered 21-15, which said section reads as follows section 21-15 House numbering House numbers shall be public property and shall be sub- ject to change by the city, with or without notice, at the discretion of the City Council It shall be the duty of the Budding Inspection Division to assign the proper numbers for houses upon application SECTION III That the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered 21-16, which said section reads as follows Section 21-16 Owner or occupant to place numbers The owner or occupant of every house and building in the city shall place the street number assigned by the Build- ing Inspection Division in some conspicuous place on or near such house or building so that the same may be plainly seen from the street The house numbers shall be at least three (3) inches high and shall be made of some bright metal or material SECTION IV That the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered 21-17, which said section reads as follows Section 21-17 Baselines (a) Hickory Street and its continuation by imaginary line through the city from east to west, and Locust Street and its continuation by imaginary line through the city from north to south are hereby established as the base lines from which all houses and buildings in the city are to be numbered (b) The letters N , E , S , and W , indicating the four cardinal points of the compass, shall be added as a prefix to the names of all streets, avenues and thoroughfares in the city, as their direction from the base lines may indicate (c) All houses and buildings shall be numbered from the base line of the street on which they are located, out such street to the corporate limits of the city, or to the terminus of the street, in regular order, the even numbers on the right side and the odd numbers on the left of such street SECTION V That the Code is hereby amended by adding a said section reads as follows Section 21-18 Blocks of Ordinances of the City of Denton section, to be numbered 21-18, which (a) Three hundred (300) feet is hereby designated as a block, and one hundred numbers shall, if practicable, be placed in each block (b) As the blocks progress in distance from the base line, the beginning number shall be raised one hundred (100) with each block (c) The one hundred block of North Locust Street shall begin at the north side of the intersection of Locust and Hickory Streets The one hundred block of South Locust Street shall begin at the south side of the intersection of Locust and Hickory Street (d) The one hundred block of East Hickory Street shall begin at the east side of the intersection of Hickory and Locust Streets The one hundred block of West Hickory Street shall begin at the west side of the intersection of Hickory and Locust Streets PAGE 2 SECTION VI That the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered 21-19, which said section reads as follows Section 21-19 Identification of apartment buildings (2) When more than one apartment building is located on a lot or tract of land, each building shall be identified by a permanent number attached to the exterior wall The size and location of such numbers shall be such that they are clearly visible and readable from the street or driveway serving the building (b) New apartment complexes of two or more buildings and existing apartment complexes of two or more buildings which are not presently numbered shall have numbers at least ten (10) inches tall Such numbers shall be of a contrasting color to that of the surface on which they are mounted (c) Existing apartment buildings which already have identifying numbers may be allowed to continue to use those numbers if they are judged by the Chiefs of the Police and Fire Departments, or their appointed designees, to be clearly visible and readable from the street or driveway serving the buildings (d) The owner or manager of apartment buildings with identifying numbers shall request an inspection of the buildings to determine if the numbers are visible and readable from the street and driveways serving the building(s) by notifying the City Build- ing Inspection Division within twenty (20) days from the effective date of this ordinance SECTION VII All existing apartment buildings shall comply with the requirements of this ordinance within ninety (90) days from the effective date of this ordinance SECTION VIII That if any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word in this ordinance, or application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance, and the City Council of the City of Denton, Texas, hereby declares it would have enacted such remaining portions despite any such invalidity PAGE 3 SECTION IX That any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be fined a sum not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars (500 00), and each day that a pro- vision of this ordinance is violated shall constitute a separate and distinct offense This penalty is in addition to and cumu- lative of, any other remedies as may be available at law and equity SECTION X That this ordinance shall become effective fourteen (14) days from the date of its passage, and the City Secretary is hereby directed to cause the caption of this ordinance to be published twice in the Denton Record-Chronicle, the official newspaper of the City of Denton, Texas, within ten (10) days of the date of its passage L!~day of 1988 PASSED AND APPROVED this the J_C I/ a RAY ST PH NS, AYOR ATTEST J , CITY ECRE ARY APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM DEBRA ADAMI DRAYOVITCH, CITY ATTORNEY BY PAGE 4