<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 34-27. - Renaming roads.</div>
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               Property owners who want to have the name of a public or private road changed for
               personal reasons must submit a petition to the program administrator for verification.
               This section does not apply to any road name request made by the county suggested
               to provide better emergency service to property owners and residents along public
               or private roads. The program administrator will make recommendations to the county
               board of commissioners after the following criteria have been met:
               
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                  (1)
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                  A $25.00 fee for each road shall accompany any petition requesting that an existing
                  road name be changed.
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                  (2)
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                  The petition should include the existing road name, the proposed road name, the reasons
                  why the person request the change, and the signatures of 75 percent of those persons
                  owning property adjacent to the road.
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                  (3)
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                  The address program administrator shall request a public hearing date be set by the
                  county board of commissioners and cause the same to be advertised pursuant to G.S.
                  153A-239.1.
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                  (4)
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                  In the event the address program administrator and board of commissioners approve
                  the request, the petitioners shall be required to pay the county for the cost of purchasing
                  new signs and erecting them.
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                  (5)
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                  In renaming roads, no requests will be considered that is a duplicate or phonetically
                  similar to any existing road name already established by this article, any subsequent
                  ordinances, amendments thereto or within a municipality located in the county, irrespective
                  of the use of a suffix such as street, drive, place, court, etc.
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               (Code 1984, Â§ 11-24; Ord. of 2-1-1999)
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