Chapter 15.40 — BUILDING NUMBERS

At all primary entrances from public streets within the city, building addresses shall be displayed as hereinafter provided. The address of each and every entrance shall be placed upon or immediately above the door or gate closing said entrance or adjacent to the fence or wall opening leading to an entrance. The numbers of such address shall be at least two inches in height and of corresponding width; moreover, such address shall be displayed in a manner so as to be clearly readable from the street both night and day.

The appropriate street number shall be displayed as specified above within ten days after the receipt by the owner, occupant, lessee, tenant, or subtenant of such building, of a notice from the Building Inspector of the number or numbers designated for such building; and all numbers other than the number provided for in this Chapter for the respective entrances shall be removed from every building by the owners, occupants, lessees, tenants, or subtenants thereof within ten days from the service of said notice designating the appropriate numbers to be placed thereon. It shall be the duty of the Building Inspector to designate the respective numbers for buildings fronting on streets heretofore laid out or hereafter to be laid out or extended.

(Prior code § 7-2.01)

The system of numbering shall be the one shown upon that certain map entitled, "Map showing plan of assigning numbers by blocks and portions of blocks for house numbering purposes in the city of Oakland," which said map was adopted by Ordinance No. 3227 and is continued in full force and effect. A record of building numbers assigned shall be kept on the block maps in the office of the Building Inspector.

(Prior code § 7-2.02)

Upon the completion of a building or buildings or alterations, thereto changing entrances, it is unlawful for the owners, agents, occupants, tenants, lessees, or sublessees to assign or place any number thereon unless the same shall have been officially designated by the Building Inspector, and application must be made at the office of said Building Inspector for such designation of numbers.

(Prior code § 7-2.03)

In cases where incorrect numbers have been placed and remain or shall hereafter be placed on any house or building, the owner, agent, or other person as in this Chapter provided, shall upon notification of the error by the Building Inspector correct the number within ten days after official notification.

(Prior code § 7-2.04)

In cases where a house remains unnumbered or where a house may have been numbered and the number since lost or destroyed or defaced as to be unintelligible, the owner, agent, or other person as in this Chapter provided, shall cause said house to be numbered in accordance with the official notification of the Building Inspector within ten days.

(Prior code § 7-2.05)

Any person violating any provision of this Chapter shall be deemed guilty of an infraction.

(Prior code § 7-2.06)