(A) Applicability. This section shall apply to the incorporated areas of the town.
(B) Duty of owner to display number. It shall be the duty of each owner of a residential, institutional, industrial or commercial building to clearly display the proper street address number on the assigned building so as to be visible from the nearest public vehicular area, as defined in G.S. § 20-4.01.
(C) Display, visibility, size and placement of numbers. Within 60 days of adoption of this section, the owner or occupant of the building shall display or cause to be displayed the assigned address. The displayed street number shall be no less than three inches high on single and duplex buildings, no less than six inches high on multi-unit buildings, attached to the principle use structure and clearly legible from the nearest public vehicular area. Should the structure be too far from the public vehicular area for the numerals to be seen, the property owner shall also display an additional set of numerals legible from vehicles traveling at the prevailing speed on the roadway. The numbers shall be located where the main driveway to the building intersects the nearest public or private street.
(D) Removal and incorrect display prohibited; violation and penalty. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to remove or deface a street address which is displayed in accordance with division (C) above. It shall also be unlawful to allow an incorrect street address to remain on a building.
(Prior Code, § 21-7.1) (Ord. passed 11-14-1989) Penalty, see § 96.99