Subsection 1: Police

The mayor fixes by order the dimensions and model of the signs indicating the names of the roads, squares or crossroads opened to traffic, as well as the dimensions and location of the spaces that owners reserve on their buildings, without them having to pay any compensation. The supply, installation, maintenance and renewal of nameplates for public roads or squares are carried out by and at the expense of the…

Plaques bearing, along with the number of the arrondissement, an indication of the name of all roads and squares open to traffic are affixed to buildings, whether built-up or not, located at the corner of two roads open to traffic or opposite the junction of one road with another and at all points of squares and crossroads designated by the Mayor of Paris. A plaque bearing a serial number is…

The mayor shall determine by decree the dimensions and model of the building number plates, the number to be assigned to each building and the dimensions and location of the spaces that owners reserve on their buildings to accommodate the said plates. The maintenance and replacement of these plates shall be the responsibility of the owners and failing this, after formal notice has been given to them by the mayor,…

When, through the fault of an owner, the nameplate of a public or private road or square, or the number plate of a building, whether built or not, located on the edge of a public or private road or square is obscured, even temporarily, by any installation, the owner is required to affix, at his own expense and risk, a new nameplate in the place and location determined by the…

For facades classified as historic monuments, included in the supplementary inventory of historic monuments or listed in the archaeological and artistic register of the Paris municipality (1st and 2nd categories), the mayor sets, in each case, the conditions for the fitting of nameplates in such a way as to cause the least possible damage to the architectural and monumental arrangements. Old inscriptions of the names of streets and squares, whether…

House numbering is established by the same sequence of numbers for the same street, even when it depends on several boroughs, and by a single number placed on the main door of the house. This number may be repeated on the other doors of the same house, when they open onto the same street as the main door; if they open onto a different street, they take the number from…

Streets known as “faubourgs”, although they form a continuation to a street of the same name, take on a new sequence of numbers.

The number series consists of even numbers for the right side of the street, and odd numbers for the left side.

The right-hand side of a street is determined: – in streets perpendicular or oblique to the course of the Seine, by the right-hand side of the passer-by walking away from the river; – in streets parallel to the course of the Seine, by the right-hand side of the passer-by walking in the direction of the course of the river. In the islands, the great channel of the river flowing to…