[Ord. No. 856, 4-11-2006]
A. 
All houses and buildings fronting on public streets in the City of New Haven shall be numbered and shall be numbered in accordance with the master plan of numbering submitted by the Planning and Zoning Commission and approved by the Board of Aldermen, which master plan of numbering shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk.
B. 
Address numbers shall be a minimum of four (4) inches in height and shall be located either near a building's main entrance, above the garage door or on a surface that is easily visible from the street of address. Additional displays of assigned numbers may be displayed at the property owner's discretion. Assigned numbers shall be displayed with Arabic numerals in a color that contrasts with the color of the subject house or building. Address displays in script are prohibited. Houses or buildings that are set back more than one hundred (100) feet from a street's curb shall be required to display address numbers within fifty (50) feet of the street curb on a surface that is easily visible from the street of address.
C. 
Any contractor or builder in charge of the greater part of the work of erecting any house or building in the City of New Haven shall report the location thereof to the Building Commissioner and procure a certificate of the number to be placed thereon and shall cause said number to be placed on said house or building; or may deliver said certificate to the owner who shall cause said number to be placed thereon in cases where said owner is a resident of the City of New Haven.
D. 
The responsibility for the displaying of the assigned number for each existing house and building in the City, as of the effective date of this Section, shall rest with the property owner, trustee, lessee, agent or occupant of each house or building.
E. 
Any person who shall fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Section or who shall number or attempt to number any house or building other than in conformity with this Section or who shall fail to change his/her number, if wrong, within sixty (60) days of the effective date of this Section and thereafter within thirty (30) days after being notified in writing to do so by the Chief of Police shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and subjected to a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).