All dwelling houses, business, manufacturing, and public buildings, except buildings used exclusively for public worship, and county offices, that are now or hereafter may be erected in the City shall be numbered by having placed in a conspicuous place over or near the main entrance thereof a plain number that can be easily read, not less than three inches (3) in height, said number to be placed on a flat perpendicular surface.

(Code 1961, 9-8-1; Code 2023)

The numbering mentioned in Section 13-501 shall be done in the following manner, that is, all buildings to be numbered that now front, or may hereafter front, on any avenue or street running east and west shall, as near as may be, have placed upon it a number according to the twenty foot (20’) space said building may occupy measuring from the end of the block wherein It is or may be situated, even numbers to be placed on buildings on the south side of such avenues or streets, and odd numbers to be placed on the north side of such avenues or streets, said numbering to commence at Oak Street in said City with one hundred (100) for the first twenty feet (20’) on the south side, and one hundred one (101) on the north side of each avenue or street and one hundred two (102) for the next twenty feet (20’) on the south side and one hundred three (103) on the north side and so on allowing a number for each twenty feet (20’) and going east and west from said Oak Street until an intersecting street is reached, when the number on the first twenty feet (20’) across from said intersecting street shall be two hundred (200) on the south side and two hundred one (201) on the north side of said avenue or street and continuing as before always beginning with the next one hundred (100) after crossing any street until the City Limits are reached.

(Code 1961, 9-8-2; Code 2023)

All numbering on buildings fronting on the streets running north and south to begin at First Avenue and proceeding with odd numbers on the west and even numbers on the east sides of such streets, and proceeding and numbering north and south from said avenue on each street as near as may be, or herein provided for east and west avenues and streets; provided, that any building located on any avenue or street in said City that begins at a point east or west or north or south of the points herein designated for numbering to commence shall be numbered the same as said building would be numbered if said street commenced at the points herein designated.

(Code 1961, 9-8-3; Code 2023)