Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-09-06
Ordinance No. 176.

An Ordinance providing for the mum
boring of residences, business build
ings, and shops in the City of Cresco
and fixing a penalty for the violations
of any of the provisions of the ordi
nance.
Be it ordained by the City Council OF
the City of Cresco, Howard County,
Iowa:
Section l. All residences and BUSH
ness buildings and shops located on
properties within the Incorporated
limits of the City of Cresco, Howard
County, Iowa, shall be numbered, or
REMEMBERED, as provided herein.
| Section 2. One whole number shall
be designated for each twenty-five
feet of block frontage through out the
city, beginning with the lot corner
nearest to, and proceeding from the
base lines hereinafter described. The
determining numbers of frontage shall
begin with the numerals "1Ol" on the
south side of avenues and the east side
of streets, and the numerals ''1O2' on
the north side of avenues and the west
side of streets, and continue alternate.
" to the end of each block, except as
hereinafter noted; each block of 'front.'
age constituting 100. All buildings
coming under the provisions of this or
dinance shall take the number or num-
bers determined for the frontages on
which they stand, except:
First. The two blocks from West
Second street to West Third street
shall be numbered as if one block only,
and no change of hundred mineral
shall be made at the intersection with
Pine Place.
Second. Blocks of double or greater
length shall be divided at a point
where any street or streets now plat
ted or projected would intersect such
blocks if extended through them.
Third. Fractional numbers may be
used to designate numbers for en-
frances to upper floors, or additional
ground entrances, whenever necessary.
Section 3. Elm Street and First
Avenue shall be the division or base
lines, from which shall be determined
the proper hundred numeral for blocks
on all streets md avenues as herein
provided.
Section 4. Numbers for buildings
which shall hereafter be numbered or
remembered, as provided in this Ordi-
nance, shall be composed of figures
not less than three inches in height
with a stroke not less than one-half
inch in width; and shall be of or paint
ed on glass or some metallic sub
stance. Arabic numerals shall be used
in all cases.
Section S. All streets and avenues
shall have the words East, :"
West" Southeast and "South-
west" added to their names or num-
bers, according to their direction and
location from the base lines above
named.
Section 6. 1t shall be the duty of
the owner of any building now erected
in said city to have the same num-
bered as provided by this Ordinance,
not later than October first, 1912; and
any buildings erected after the pass
age of this Ordinance shall be so num-
bered within thirty days after the
completion of the building.
Section 7 If the owner of any
building in said city shall neglect to
have the same numbered as provided,
within the time fixed herein, the City
Council shall have the same numbered
and the cost thereof asst ssed against
the property, to be collected with
other taxes.
Section 8. 1t shall be the duty of
the owners of all buildings to maintain
numbers thereon in good condition for
the purposes for which such numbers
are used, and should any number or
part thereof be removed or become
illegible, the same shall be replaced
promptly by the owner; and If the
owner fails to do so, the same will be
done by the City and the cost assessed
az providad in Section 7
Section 8. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person to wilfully remove, deface,
mutilate, obscure, or destroy any
street number, or to number buildings
in manner different from that out
lined and directed by this Ordinance.
Section 8. Any person violating any
of the provisions of this ordinance, or
doing anything herein designated as
unlawful. shall upon conviction there
of be fined not more than fifty dollars
and the costs of prosecution; and in de-
fault of the payment of such fine and
costs shall be imprisoned in the county
Jail of Howard County, Iowa, for a
term not exceeding zone day for each
three and one-third dollars of such fine
and costs.
Section 10. This ordinance shall take
effect and be in force from and after
its publication in the Howard County
Times, and Twice Week Plain Dealer.
Approved Sept. End, 1912.
Z. l.. DAVENPORT,
Attest: Mayor.
A. W. GILLE'T,