<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 66-31. - Street addresses.</div>
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               (a)
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               <span class="ital">Duties of street address administrator.</span> The street address administrator is hereby authorized to:
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               (1)
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               Assign street addresses on streets which are not presently addressed; and
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               (2)
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               Resolve conflicts in numbers, assign and reassign numbers, or propose any changes
               which are deemed necessary and in accordance with G.S. 153A-240.
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               (b)
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               <span class="ital">Inclusions and exclusions.</span> Street addressing includes the assignment of street numbers to residences, businesses
               and other property within the county and outside the jurisdiction of any municipality
               within the county. It shall not include the assignment of numbers to interior offices
               and rooms in existing or future houses, buildings and other structures.
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               (c)
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               <span class="ital">Assignment procedures.</span> Addresses shall be assigned to buildings and property according to the following
               procedures:
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               (1)
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               Address numbers shall follow in numerical sequence from low to high, beginning at
               the point of origin of the street.
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               (2)
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               For all address assignments, beginning at the street's point of origin, even numbers
               shall be assigned on the left side of the street and odd numbers shall be assigned
               on the right side of the street.
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               (3)
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               Allowances shall be made for vacant properties in order that numbers may be assigned
               to future structures on such properties. For all new streets and roads and all streets
               receiving new street addresses, two numbers shall be assigned, one on either side
               of the street, at 50-foot intervals.
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               (4)
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               The street address administrator will have the right to authorize and approve alternate
               methods of street address numbering which meet the intent of this article when strict
               adherence to these standards cannot reasonably be met.
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               (d)
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               <span class="ital">New street naming and numbering; proposal.</span> For all subdivisions where new streets are proposed, a street naming and numbering
               proposal shall be submitted to the street address administrator for approval before
               any property can be subdivided and recorded. The proposal shall include:
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               (1)
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               A scaled plat of the overall tract illustrating street layout;
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               (2)
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               The name proposed for each street identified on the map;
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               (3)
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               The proposed address scheme for the subdivision identified on the map; and
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               (4)
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               An alphabetical list of the proposed street names, together with an alternate name
               for each name proposed.
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               The street address administrator will review the proposed street naming and numbering
               proposal for duplicate names, appropriateness of names, and for overall compliance
               with the street naming and numbering policy and make a recommendation to the county
               commissioners to accept or deny the proposal. Approved street names and addresses
               shall be included in the final plat submitted for recordation.
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               (e)
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               For all presently unnamed streets or roads, whenever there is a need to name said
               street or road for 911 purposes the procedure shall be as follows:
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               (1)
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               The street address administrator shall send by certified mail a notice to all property
               owners on the unnamed street or road informing them of the need to name said street
               or road, and of their right to select a name for the street or road within 30 days;
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               (2)
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               If within 30 days of the sending of said notice, the street address administrator
               receives a petition signed by the majority of the property owners stating a preference
               for the name, the street or road shall be named accordingly unless the chosen name
               is already in use for another street or road within the county or otherwise objectionable;
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               (3)
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               In the event the name chosen by the property owners is already in use or otherwise
               objectionable, the street address administrator shall notify the property owners that
               the name they have selected cannot be used and the process specified in the foregoing
               paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be repeated;
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               (4)
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               That in the event the property owners shall fail to respond to the street address
               administrator's notice within 30 days, the street address administrator shall be authorized
               to choose a name for the street or road.
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               (Ord. No. 20351, art. 5, 11-30-93; Ord. No. 96-1-1, 1-2-96)
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