Pontiac, MI Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Permit required
- Before painting any house number on a curb
- Issuing office
- Director of Public Works and Services
- Rule authority
- Sets size, color, design of curb numbers
- Penalty (general, § 1-25)
- Up to $500 fine or 90 days jail
Summary
Painting house numbers on a public street curb in the City of Pontiac requires a permit from the Director of Public Works and Services under City Code Section 86-203(b), which also lets that office set the uniform size, color and design rules for curb numbers. Anyone who paints numbers on a city curb without first getting that permit is violating Section 86-203, which otherwise treats unauthorized marking of city property as damage to city property.
(b) The painting of house numbers on public street curbs shall not be deemed a violation of this section when done under proper permit and in conformity with rules and regulations established by the director of public works and services. (1) The director of public works and services shall establish and adopt uniform rules and regulations governing the size, color and design of all street curb numbers. (2) The director of public works and services is hereby authorized to issue permits to paint street numbers on curbs. (3) No person shall paint or cause to be painted any number on public street curbs within the city without first obtaining a permit authorizing such numbering from the director of public works and services. ... Whenever in this Code or in any ordinance of the city any act or failure to do a required act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation ... shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00 or by imprisonment ... for not more than 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
Full Breakdown
Section 86-200(b) first allows curb-number painting directly in front of residential property when done under a proper permit and following the rules the Director of Public Works and Services sets. Section 86-203 builds on that: subsection (a) makes it unlawful to damage, destroy, deface, remove or carry away city property, with violators liable to the City for repair or replacement costs on top of any other Code penalty. Subsection (b) then carves curb-number painting out of that damage prohibition, but only when it is done under a permit and follows the department's rules, and subsection (b)(1) puts the Director of Public Works and Services in charge of adopting uniform rules on the size, color and design of every street curb number in the city.
Subsection (b)(2) authorizes that same director to issue the permits, and subsection (b)(3) is the operative ban: no person may paint or cause to be painted any number on a public street curb in Pontiac without first obtaining that permit. Because Section 86-203 sets no fine of its own for unpermitted curb painting, a violation defaults to the Code's general penalty in Section 1-25, a fine not exceeding $500.00 or up to 90 days imprisonment, or both, at the court's discretion.
Violations & Fines
Painting curb numbers without the Section 86-203(b)(3) permit is punished under the Code's general penalty, Section 1-25(a): a fine not exceeding $500.00, imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both, at the court's discretion, since Section 86-203 sets no penalty of its own. A second conviction for the same unpermitted painting draws a fine of not less than $500.00 and 90 days under Section 1-25(b).
Frequently Asked Questions
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