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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 26-NAN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A PLAN -FORMULATED AND PREPARED,BY THE CITY ENGINEER FOR NUMBER ING RESIDENCES, BUSINESS HOUSES AND OTHER BUILD- INGS IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAID PLAN;"PROVIDING THAT ALL RESIDENCES, BUSINESS HOUSES AND .OTHER BUILDINGS IN THE CITY OF BEAUMONT SHALL BE NUM- BERED" IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAID -PLAN AND REQUIR- ING THE OWNER OR OWNERS -THEREOF TO NUMBER OR CAUSE THE-` SAME ' T 0 BE' SO NUMBERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAID PLAN;.AUTHORIZING THE BUILDING INSPECT- OR. OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, UNDER THE.DIRECTION. OF THE, -CITY -ENGINEER., TO GIVE TO THE OWNER OR OWNERS OF.SUCH RESIDENCES, BUSINESS HOUSES OR OTHER BUILDINGS A PROPER AND CORRECT NUMBER FOR ANY AND ALL SUCH BUILDINGS; AUTHORIZING THE BUILD- ING INSPECTOR TO GIVE FIVE (5) DAYS NOTICE TO ANY PERSON VIOLATING THE PROVISIONS :OF THIS.ORDINANCE; REPEALING ALL.ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, FIX- ING A PENALTY AND.DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, many of the residences, business houses and other buildings in Beaumont are indiscriminately numbered without regard to any formulated plan and in many instances the house numbers conflict with the block numbers as shown by the permanent street markers, and occasionally conflict- ing numbers -exist and frequently houses are not numbered in consecutive order; and, WHEREAS, this c-ondition leads to much confusion and constitutes a handicap in the work of the Police Department, the Water Department and other departments of the City govern- i ment and said condition.is confusing; misleading and vexatious to the general public and requires immediate correction; and, WHEREAS, the City Engineer, at the request of the City Commission has formulated and prepared a plan whereby all re- sidences, business houses and other buildings now constructed or hereafter to be constructed may be consecutively and accur- ately numbered, and said plan so, prepared by the. City Engineer meets with the approval of the City Commission and is now on file in the office of the City Clerk and a copy thereof is on file in the office of the .City. Building Inspector. .4 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT ; Section 1. That the plan for numbering residences, business houses and other buildings in the City of Beaumont which has been prepared by the City Engineer and which is noir on file in the office of the City Clerk and in the office of the City Building Inspector, be and the same is hereby adopted by the City Commission. Section 2. That all residences, business houses and other buildings in the City of Beaumont shall be numbered in accordance with said plan so formulated and prepared by the City Engineer and the owner or owners of any such residen- aA,t- ces, business houses or other buildings i:.s hereby required to number the same or cause the same to be numbered in accord- ance with said plan. Section 3. A copy of said plan shall remain on file at all times in the office of the City Building Inspector, and the City Building Inspector, under the direction -of the City Engineer and in accordance with the said plan, shall furnish upon request to any such owner or owners a correct number for any such residence, business house or other build- ing. Section 4. Where any residence, business house or other building in this City is not numbered with a plain and visible house number, or where any such residence, business house or other building is numbered incorrectly so that the number of the same does not conform to the plan hereby adopt ed, it shall be the duty of the City Building Inspector to give the owner or owners of such residence, business house or other building written notice to"number.said house, or to - 2 - correct the number thereon as the case may be, and such- owner uchowner or owners of such residence, business house or other building shall number or cause such building to be numbered in accordance with the plan hereby adopted, or shall correct the number or cause the same to be corrected in conformity with the plan hereby adopted as the case may be. Section 5. Any such owner or owners or any one of them who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance .upon receiving notice from the Building Inspector hereinbefore provided for, within a period of five (5) days after the receipt of such written notice, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding One Hundred (10.0.00) Dollars. Section 6. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 7. In the event any provision, section or part of this Ordinance be held invalid or unconstitutional by any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter hereof, such holding shall not affect the provisions, sections, or parts of this Ordinance not expressly held to be invalid, but the valid sections and parts of this Ordinance shall remain in full force and effect. Section 8. Because of the confusion existing by reason of the indiscriminate numbering of houses throughout the City, and because this condition constitutes an impediment to the efficient performance of the duties required of the Police Department, the Water Department and other departments of this City, and because the indiscriminate numbering of houses is vexatious to the public generally, said condition has created an imperative public emergency necessitating the suspension of the rule requiring ordinances to be read on -3- three several occasions before passage thereof -and, accordingly, the said rule is hereby suspended and this Ordinance shall take effect from and after the date of its passage. PASSED by the .affirmative vote of the City Commission f 4- thisthe, day of May, A. D. 1941. M A Y 0 R -4-