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the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton is hereby repealed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
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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
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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
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RAY ST PH NS, AYOR
ATTEST
J , CITY ECRE ARY
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM
DEBRA ADAMI DRAYOVITCH, CITY ATTORNEY
BY
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