[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the City of Rye 4-15-1987 by
L.L. No. 3-1987. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter shall be to require the clear display of
house or building numbers (hereinafter "house numbers") from public streets
for all properties that contain a principal building within the City of Rye
in order to assist the general public or the authorities in identifying any
property in case of an emergency as well as for the welfare of the general
public in conducting its normal affairs.
A.
This chapter shall apply to all properties within the
City of Rye that contain a principal building thereon, whether or not said
building is occupied.
B.
Such premises shall bear and display at least one set
of house numbers, which shall be assigned by the City Assessor. Buildings
facing two or more public roadways shall be required to display auxiliary
numbers as necessary, to pass the visibility test (as hereinafter set forth)
when viewed from those points in the center line of the public roadway opposite
those points where regularly used pedestrian or vehicular passageways enter
the public roadway.
In order to comply with this chapter, house numbers shall be arabic
in design, shall have a minimum height of two inches and shall be mounted
in a secure fashion to the building's front wall or to a porch or other fixed
appurtenance in front of the building in the general vicinity of the main
entryway or main path of travel which leads to the main entrance from a public
or private street, or otherwise separately mounted in an approved manner upon
the face of a wall or upon a post in the front yard of the premises. Auxiliary
numbers shall be mounted a height between four feet and 10 feet above the
adjacent grade for exterior landing directly beneath but never higher than
15 feet above the adjoining grade. They shall be sufficiently legible as to
contrasting background, arrangement, spacing, size and uniformity of integers
so that the numbers may be read with ease during the daylight hours by a person
possessing at least 20/40 vision as he views the numbers from the center line
of the facing street and at an elevation of five feet above the finished surface
thereof. The numbers shall be so placed that trees, shrubs or other obstructions
do not block the line of the numbers from the center of the street to any
appreciable degree.
Existing numbers used on premises which essentially comply with numbers
officially assigned by the City Assessor, at least to the extent that each
number or numbers are in logical sequence with number or numbers assigned
to properties on either side which are located on the same side of the street,
shall be considered as bearing the correct number or numbers for the purposes
of this chapter. Existing installations which essentially meet the requirements
and/or spirit of these regulations, including numbers presently on or attached
to a mailbox, may be granted approval by the City Assessor without further
alteration.
The absence of house numbers or the insecure fastening or absence of
any integer thereof or the use of any number out of logical sequence for the
street toward which it faces or the failure of a number to meet the elevation
requirement or the visibility requirements shall be considered a violation
of this chapter. Failure on the part of the property owner to comply with
the provisions of this chapter within the period of 15 days from the date
of issuance of a notice of violation shall be sufficient cause for the City
Assessor or such representative as he may choose to proceed with carrying
out the provisions of this chapter and assess any costs incurred to the property
owner concerned, with a minimum charge of $20 for each property in violation.
The final authority for determining and assigning the number or numbers
to be used upon any particular property shall be the Assessor of the City
of Rye.
