Township of Wall, NJ Chapter 79 Buildings, Numbering of

[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Wall 11-8-1978 as Sec. 3-22 of the Revised General Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]

§ 79-1 Applicability.

All dwelling houses, stores or other buildings within the Township of Wall shall display numbers in conformance with the street numbers on the official records of the Township as they appear on file in the office of the Tax Assessor of the Township.

§ 79-2 Assignment of numbers.

Said street numbers shall be assigned, placed on the official maps and allotted to the owner of each lot by the Tax Assessor or such other person as may be designated from time to time by resolution of the Township Committee. When assignment of a number takes place, all property owners shall take due notice thereof and shall comply with the provisions of this chapter. The Tax Assessor or such other person as may be designated shall also have the power and duty to correct any errors with respect to assignment of street numbers.

§ 79-3 Application for street number.

Any owner or occupant of property may apply to the Tax Assessor, who shall furnish them with the correct street number assigned to such property.

§ 79-4 Numbering of subdivision lots.

The Tax Assessor and Township Engineer shall be responsible for assigning proper number sequences to each lot which is created as the result of a subdivision or resubdivision. Said number shall be in proper municipal sequence in relation to the number assigned to other lots fronting on the same street and shall be properly recorded on the Official Map of the Township.

§ 79-5 Specifications.

In order to comply with this chapter, house numbers shall be Arabic in design, shall have a minimum height of three 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 entryway or path of travel which leads to the main entrance from a public 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 at a height between four feet and 10 feet upon the adjacent grade or exterior landing 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 daylight hours by a person possessing at least 20/40 vision, if viewed from the center line of the facing street. The numbers shall be so placed that trees, shrubs and other obstructions do not block the line of sight of the numbers from the center of the street.

§ 79-6 Violations and penalties.

The absence of house numbers, the insecure fastening or absence of any integers thereof, the use of any number not assigned by the Tax Assessor, the attempt to comply by using the numbers on or attached to a mailbox or the failure of a number to meet the elevation or visibility requirements hereof 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 a period 15 days from the date of issuance of a notice of violation shall be sufficient cause for the Tax Assessor, the Code Enforcement Officer or a police officer to issue a summons for violation of this chapter, and upon conviction thereof a fine of not more than $100 may be imposed at the discretion of the Municipal Court Judge.