[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Newington 10-26-1976
(§§ 4-40 to 4-45 of the 1974 Code). Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter shall be to promote public safety and convenience
through the provision of a rational street numbering system whereby addresses
may be identified with ease and speed, which is essential to the quick response
of emergency services such as firefighting, police and emergency medical care.
The Town Engineer may, at his/her discretion and without notice, assign
to each building, or part of a building other than an accessory building,
a street identification number by which such building shall be known and may
change such numbers and renumber such buildings or parts of buildings. It
shall be the duty of the Town Engineer, whenever hereafter 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 as in the opinion of the Town
Engineer the public interests shall require, and when buildings fronting thereon
are completed for occupancy, the owners thereof shall affix such numbers to
their buildings.
A.
Whenever the Town Engineer, acting in accordance with
the foregoing section, shall have assigned numbers to, or shall have renumbered,
any building as aforesaid, he/she shall forthwith send to the owner or owners
of each and all buildings fronting upon said street a written notice informing
him or them of such numbering or renumbering and directing the said owner
or owners to affix to such premises numerals indicating the number or numbers
thereto assigned. It shall thereupon become the duty of the owner or owners
to affix said number or 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 this chapter, without prior notice, to affix numerals
indicating the street identification number which has previously been assigned
to such building by the Town or, if there is no record of such an
assignment, the street identification number which has been customarily used
for such premises.
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 street. Such numerals shall be at least four inches in height
and shall be of a color contrasting with the color of the background provided
by the 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 center line of the street on which it fronts
between projections of the sides of such building intersecting more or less
perpendicularly with said center line.
B.
If a building is set back more than 100 feet from the
center line of the street on which it fronts, or if numerals cannot be made
legible from such center line because of obstruction, the aforesaid numerals
shall be affixed to a post, sign, mailbox or other device which shall be located
within 10 feet of the driveway entrance to the premises, but which shall otherwise
conform to the specifications herein.
C.
For buildings containing more than three dwelling units
which have entrances from interior passageways, numerals shall be affixed
within five feet of every door by which the building may be entered. Otherwise,
the specifications and locations for such numerals shall be as for other buildings.
Whoever shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of this chapter for more than 30 days after notice, as required in § 176-3, shall be fined $5 for each and every day of such refusal or neglect. It shall be the duty of the Town Engineer to report to the Town Attorney any case of such refusal or neglect at the end of 30 days after the issuance of the notice as provided in § 176-3.
