[Ord. of 5-10-1989, § 1]
The purpose of this article shall be to promote public safety
and convenience through the provision of a rational street numbering
system whereby addresses may be identified with the ease and speed
which is essential to the quick response of emergency services such
as firefighting, police and emergency medical care.
[Ord. of 5-10-1989, § 2]
It shall be the duty of the owners of all dwellings, apartments,
houses, multiple family dwellings, rooming houses, hotels, commercial
establishments, and other buildings within the town to number such
buildings or units with numerals as herein provided. It shall be unlawful
for any person, whether owner or occupant of the building or any apartment
or unit therein, to place, maintain or allow to remain thereon any
number other than the one required by this article.
[Ord. of 5-10-1989, § 3]
The Building Official and Assessor of the town, at his discretion
and without notice, may assign to each building, or part of a building
other than an accessory building a street identification number by
which such building or part thereof shall be known, and may change
such numbers of such buildings or part of such buildings. The Building
Official and Assessor shall be authorized to change a street identification
number of any individual building or buildings or parts thereof, when
such change shall be necessary by reason of readjustment of any kind,
inaccuracy or mistake, or for any other reason. It shall be the duty
of the Building Official and Assessor, whenever a new street or highway
is laid out, to assign to the land abutting on such street or highway,
numbers at such measured intervals or distances, in the opinion of
the Building Official and Assessor, the public interests shall require.
When buildings fronting on such new street or highway are completed
for occupancy the owners thereof shall affix numbers to their buildings.
[Ord. of 5-10-1989, § 4]
(a)
Whenever the Building Official and Assessor, acting in accordance
with this article, shall have assigned numbers to a building, he shall
send to the owners of each and all buildings a written notice informing
them of such numbering or renumbering and directing them to affix
to such premises numerals indicating the number thereto assigned.
It shall thereupon become the duty of the owners to affix the numbers
within 30 days after the sending of such notice.
(b)
It shall be the duty of the owners of all buildings existing at the
effective date of the ordinance from which this article derives, without
prior notice, to affix numerals indicating the street identification
number which has previously been assigned to such buildings by the
town or, if there is no record of such assignment, the street identification
number which customarily has been used for such premises. Such numbers
shall be affixed within 30 days of the effective date of the ordinance
from which this article derives.
[Ord. of 5-10-1989, § 5]
(a)
Numerals used to indicate the street identification number of buildings
shall be located on the exterior front of the building which they
identify or on a post, sign, mailbox or other device located between
the building and the street. Such numerals shall be at least three
inches in height and shall be of a color contrasting with the color
of the background material to which they are affixed. When affixed,
they shall be positioned not less than four feet nor more than 12
feet from the surface of the ground directly below them. The location
and size of such numerals shall be sufficient to assure their legibility
when the building which they identify is viewed from one or more points
along the centerline of the street on which it fronts between projections
of the sides of such building intersecting perpendicularly with the
centerline.
(b)
If a building fronting on a street or private road is set back more than 100 feet from the centerline of such street or private road or if any numerals affixed to such a building in accordance with Subsection (a) cannot be made legible from such centerline because of obstruction, the aforesaid numerals shall also be affixed to a post, sign, mailbox or other device which shall be located within 10 feet of the driveway entrance which provides the closest vehicular access to the building or part of the building to which the numerals have been assigned.
(c)
For buildings containing two or more dwelling units, stores, offices,
or any combinations thereof, and which have entrances from interior
passageways, numerals for such dwelling units, stores or offices shall
be affixed within five feet of every exterior door of the building
by which the building may be entered and from which access of such
dwelling units, stores or offices may be gained. In addition, the
same number shall be affixed to the entrance door of each unit, store,
office or combination thereof; otherwise, the specifications and locations
for such numerals shall be as for other buildings.
(d)
All numbers must be made of substantial and permanent material, and
must be so placed or affixed as not to be easily effaced or removed.
[Ord. of 5-10-1989, § 6]
Every owner or occupant of any building or part thereof and every agent of any owner who shall neglect or refuse for 30 days to affix to the same the number assigned by the Building Official and Assessor or who shall affix to the same or retain thereon more than five days, any number contrary to the direction of the Building Official and Assessor or who shall refuse or neglect to comply with any provision of this article, shall be guilty of an infraction punishable by a fine of $5. For the purposes of enforcing this provision of this article, tickets may be issued by any person authorized to issue tickets, summons or infractions under the authority of the General Statutes or the Charter of the town. Each day of neglect or refusal to comply with the directions of the Building Official and Assessor shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. If any fine is not paid within seven days of the issuance of a ticket, a warrant may be issued for the arrest of the violator on a violation, and upon conviction shall be punished in accordance with Section 1-7.
