[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Shamong
9-7-1993 by Ord. No. 1993-9. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Certificate of occupancy — see Ch. 68.
As used in this chapter, the words or phrases shall have the meaning
indicated unless otherwise required by the context:
Includes all houses, dwellings, stores, business places and other
buildings which front on any street in the Township.
Any street, road, highway, alleyway or avenue for the passage of
motor vehicles and pedestrians, whether paved or unpaved, identified on the
Official Tax Map of the Township of Shamong and located within the Township
borders.
A.
The Township Committee or its delegate shall be authorized
to name or change the name of streets within the Township and provide for
the erection thereon of signs showing the names thereof and guideposts for
travelers at the expense of the Township and shall provide for the identification
of said streets on the Official Tax Map of the Township. The names of the
streets of the Township shall be as presently shown on the Tax Map except
for the following name changes which shall be made thereon:
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Existing Names
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New Names
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Burnt House Road (West of Stokes Road)
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Three Bridge Road
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Dingletown-Hampton Gate Road
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Oriental Road
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Dingletown Road
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Forked Neck Road
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East Millstone Drive
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Millstone Drive
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Indian Mills-Tabernacle Road (County Route 648) from Route 206 to Willow
Grove Road
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Willow Grove Road
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Indian Mills-Tabernacle Road (municipal road) from Route 206 to Tuckerton
Road
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Old Indian Mills Road
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Medford Atsion Road
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Atsion Road
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Medford-Indian Mills Road (County Route 620) from Burnt House Road to
Stokes Road
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Indian Mills Road
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Neck Road
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Forked Neck Road
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New Road (off of Forked Neck Road)
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Springers Brook Road
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Shadowlake Drive (off of Oak Shade Road)
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Shadowlake Lane
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Stokes Road (Municipal Road)
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East Stokes Road
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Tabernacle Road
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Flyatt Road
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West Millstone Drive
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Millstone Drive
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B.
Any further street name changes may be made by the Township
Committee by a resolution duly adopted setting forth such changes and authorizing
the amendment of the Tax Map to reflect them.
A.
The Township Committee or its delegate shall plot on
the Tax Map of Township all the properties which now or hereafter front on
any street and shall designate and assign a number therefor.
B.
Requirements.
(1)
Address requirements.
(a)
The Township Committee or its delegate shall designate
and assign an official address for all buildings which now or hereafter front
on any street. The Township Committee or its delegate shall send each building
owner or occupant a notice of the official address, which notice shall appear
in substantially the following form:
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Your official address is:
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If mail delivery is made to the property location:
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Resident or business name
____ Street Name
Shamong, NJ 08088
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If mail is received at a post office: (post office box)
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Resident or business name
____ Street Name, Shamong Township
P.O. Box ____
Post Office Name, NJ 08zip code
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(b)
The owner or occupant shall utilize such official address
at all times.
(2)
House numbering requirements.
(a)
The owner or occupant of any building for which an official
number is designated shall be required at his own expense to place the official
number on the structure or a post so that it is clearly visible from the street
on which the building fronts.
(b)
If the official number cannot be displayed on the structure
or a post as to be clearly visible from the street, it shall be displayed
at the end of the driveway to the building so that it is clearly visible from
the street on which the building fronts.
(c)
Figures at least three inches high shall be used to display
the official number, and all numbers shall be lighted or reflective.
(d)
Any person, firm or corporation failing to so number
any building occupied by him, or if after receiving notice to do so from the
Township Clerk shall continue in his failure to so number such building, shall
be fined $1 for each day during or on which a failure to so number continues.
(3)
Mailbox numbering requirements.
(a)
Buildings with rural mailboxes shall have the official
number displayed on both sides of the mailbox.
(b)
The official number shall also be posted at the end of
the driveway to the building so that it is clearly visible from the street.
(c)
Buildings with mailboxes clustered with others or on
a street other than that on which the building fronts shall have the official
street address displayed in one-inch lettering on the front door of the mailbox.
C.
Upon any subdivision of land in the Township resulting
in new streets and in lots other than those delineated on the Tax Map, the
Township Committee or its delegate shall assign a name to each new street
and a number to each lot resulting from the subdivision which shall be in
proper numerical sequence in relation to the numbers assigned to other lots
fronting on the same street.
