(A) An official map showing the corporate boundaries of the town, and indicating the names and showing the location of each street within said town, has been prepared, and said map is hereby adopted as the official map of the town. A copy of said map is hereby incorporated by reference.
(B) Each street, not comprising a state or federal highway, shown on said map, is hereby designated and declared to be a public street, under the jurisdiction of the town, with the exception of Bontrager Drive, Coachmen Drive, Corson Drive, Day Spring Court, Heritage Drive North, Joan Drive, Southridge Parkway, Sunrise Lane and Yoder Drive, which are private roads, for which formal names have been established for mailing, identification and emergency vehicle purposes, and which in the case of Coachmen Drive and Corson Drive have been so established at the specific request of Coachmen Industries, Inc.
(C) The names of such streets as shown on said map, and the corporate boundaries of the town, may from time to time be changed by the Town Council pursuant to appropriate ordinance hereafter properly adopted; likewise, additional streets within the town may hereafter be created, and named by the Town Council pursuant to appropriate ordinance.
(D) For reference purposes, an alphabetical listing of the streets in the town is placed in § 150.02. Said list includes the aforementioned private roadways.
(E) Should the formal name or names of one or more streets in the town be changed, should additional streets be developed and named, or should the corporate boundaries of the town change, any of which would cause the need for a revision of the alphabetical listing of streets, or a change in the map, such changes shall be implemented by employees and agents of the town, and a new map and a new alphabetical listing of such streets, by names, shall be prepared, and shall replace the map and street list which form a part of this chapter, it being the express plan that the map of the town and the alphabetical listing of the streets of the town shall be updated and kept current at all times, with the current list and the current map thereby becoming the official map and list of the town.
(F) A plan and system of numbering the lots, houses and buildings of the town is hereby continued. All blocks and lots are to be numbered north and south from Warren Street and east and west from State Road 13, beginning with the number 100 for blocks and designating successive blocks by successive hundreds. Each lot or established portion of a lot shall be assigned a number consistent with the number of the block within which it is situate. The first lot in block 100 shall be numbered 100 north, south, east and west respectively. Numbers shall be assigned to each lot or part of lot on all streets, avenues, roads or other public ways as follows: odd numbers shall be assigned to the west side of north and south streets and even numbers to the east side of north and south streets; and on east and west streets, odd numbers are to be assigned to the south side and even numbers to the north side. In case a street does not run through a block, the numbers of lots and that of a block itself shall continue to the farther line of the street as the line would be if the street ran through, and a new block shall begin at such line.
(G) Said plan and system shall be administered and carried out by the Town Manager, and such other employees of said town as directed by said Town Manager. In the event of any question or dispute as to the assignment of any number to any particular building, house or lot, the party aggrieved by such assignment may appeal the same to the Town Council, within 30 days after first notification of such assignment, which appeal must be in writing, and state the reasons for the question or dispute as to the assignment. Said appeal will be considered at a meeting of the Town Council, with advance notice to the aggrieved party being given as to the time, date and place of said meeting.
(H) By May 1, 1983, the number assigned to each lot, which contains a permanent improvement thereon, which is used for residential or commercial purposes, and which is not merely an accessory or peripheral building to a larger structure on such lot, must be placed in a conspicuous place on the front of said house or building, used for residential or commercial purposes, which number shall consist of figures not less than two and one-half inches in length, and which figures must be distinct and easily read.
(1) The legal titleholder of said lot, upon which is situate said improvement, to which said numbers shall be affixed, shall be responsible for fulfilling the requirements herein stated.
(2) From and after May 1, 1983, the town, through the Town Manager, and such other employees of said town as the Town Manager may designate, shall have the right to go upon all lots and parcels of real estate within the corporate limits of said town, containing improvements upon which numbers as herein stated were required to have been placed, and to place an appropriate number upon such improvement not numbered as aforesaid, and recover the cost thereof from the legal titleholder of said property, in a civil action, to be instituted in a court of competent jurisdiction within this state.
(I) Within 30 days after the erection of a new home or building, for residential or commercial purposes, which improvement shall not be an accessory or peripheral building to an existing structure which already has the requisite numbers placed thereon, the owner of said newly erected house or building shall place a number thereon according to the provisions of this chapter.
(1985 Code, § 36-7-4-405) (Ord. 199, passed 3-7-1983; Ord. 189, passed 6-1-1981; Ord. 416, passed 7-1-2002; Ord. 416, passed 7-1-2002) Penalty, see § 150.99
Statutory reference:
Duties; recommendations on comprehensive plan and the like; subdivision plats; development plans; street numbers and names, see I.C. 36-7-4-405