<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 50-63. - Approved method for naming, renaming or changing the name of a public road in the county.</div>
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               (a)
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               Requests for assignment of a name or for a name change must include a petition for
               such action bearing the signatures of not less than 80 percent of owners who own 80
               percent of the road frontage. Petitions which include signatures of persons other
               than property owners will be deemed invalid.
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               (b)
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               All costs involved in changing a road name, including but not limited to, blades,
               posts, installation, map changes, and advertising for any required public hearing,
               shall be borne by those petitioning for the name change. A $85.00 charge per sign
               per intersection along with the $90.00 administrative fee will be submitted with the
               petition no later than April 1 for consideration at the regularly scheduled June meeting.
               The board of commissioners will consider petitions every three years. All but the
               costs involved in advertising for the public hearing and the $90.00 administrative
               fee will be refunded if the name change is not approved and/or effected. Road name
               changes approved by the board of commissioners become effective 90 days from the date
               approved by the board.
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               (c)
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               There is no fee for requesting a name to be applied to an unnamed public or private
               road, however the petitioning procedure shall remain the same.
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               (d)
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               County staff will review requests and petitions to determine if all procedural requirements
               have been met and that proposed name does not duplicate any other name of an existing
               road.
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               (e)
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               Any road, public or private, that provides access to three or more inhabitable dwellings,
               including mobile homes, shall be named for addressing purposes.
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               (f)
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               All U.S. and state highways in the county will not be named, but shall be known by
               their highway numbers such as U.S. Highway 301 or N.C. Highway 903.
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               (Ord. of 11-4-96, Â§ 8, Ord. of 10-5-98, Â§ 8)
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