(A) The house numbering system, as shown on a set of maps labeled as “house numbering maps” and on file in the Office of the Assessor, is hereby adopted as the house numbering system of the town.
(B) Furthermore, to ensure that the house numbering system of the town is correct and understandable and there is no confusion in street and highway names, the following streets and highways shall be officially recognized by the names indicated herein:
(1) Route 82 will be known as East Haddam Road to the west of the Four-Corners and as Norwich Road to the east of the Four Corners;
(2) Route 85 will be known as Hartford Road north of the Four Corners and as New London Road to the south of the Four Corners; and
(3) Route 354 will be known as Old Colchester Road.
(C) Properties on all streets and highways within the town have been numbered, regardless of whether or not they are on town accepted roads. This has been done only for consistency and convenience in the numbering process and shall not be interpreted as acceptance of any street or highway by the town, nor as acknowledgment of any particular property as a building lot or subdivision lot.
(D) The Assessor shall utilize the “house numbering maps” to assign numbers to those buildings, parts of buildings and undeveloped parcels now in existence and to buildings hereafter erected, and parcels hereafter created which front on streets and highways in the town, and a record of those number assignments shall be kept in the office of the Assessor. Notification of the number assignment shall be made to all property owners or occupants.
(E) Each owner or occupant of a numbered building shall affix, in a conspicuous place, either on the building or on a mailbox or other object on the property, the number that will identify the address as assigned by the house numbering system. The numbers must be visible and readable from the street or highway and shall be no smaller than three inches if displayed on a building or object set back behind the front building setback line.
(F) Each owner or occupant of a numbered building shall be required to affix the assigned number within 90 days of the receipt of the notice of assignment of the number. Failure to do so shall be considered a violation of this section and punishable by § 150.99.
(G) Note: whenever a driveway leading to a house or building is off a common driveway, the owner or occupant of the numbered house/building shall affix and maintain, in a conspicuous place at the interconnection of the individual driveway with the common driveway, the number that will identify the address as that assigned by the house numbering system.
(Ord. passed 2-14-2008)