For the purposes of identification and as an assist to emergency personnel. all residences and commercial businesses or buildings within the corporate limits of the City of Garden Plain shall display numbers on the outside of the buildings as designated in their legal address.

(Ord. 716; Code 2022)

All numbers shall be figures no less than four (4) inches in height, in contrasting colors and shall be conspicuously placed in a position that is plainly legible and visible from the street or road fronting the property.

(Ord. 716; Code 2022)

(a)   The enforcing officer will be in charge of the administration and enforcement of the requirements of this article.

(b)   In cases of new construction, doubt, or ambiguity, or where other questions arise as to the proper number identification to be assigned to any lot or building, the City Clerk shall decide the question and fix the number of such lot or structure.

(Ord. 716; Code 2022)

All owners of residences and commercial businesses or buildings in the City of Garden Plain, Kansas, are hereby required to number, or cause to be numbered, structures owned by them within ninety (90) days of publication. Any time new structures are erected, they shall be numbered in compliance with this article at the time of occupancy. City staff shall provide public information and notice to residents concerning the requirements of this article as is practical and prudent.

(Ord. 716; Code 2022)

Any owner of any structure not in compliance with the provisions of this article shall be fined a sum of Five Dollars ($5.00) per day until they have complied with said article.

(Ord. 716)