Weed Municipal Code Ch. 12.12 House Numbers

The city council finds that the public interest, safety, welfare and convenience require the establishment of a numbering system of street and road addresses in a uniform plan for the city. For the accomplishment of this objective, the city council establishes a uniform numbering system of street and road addresses for the city which shall be known as the property numbering system.

(Ord. 54-64 §1, 1965).

al plan for the city.

(Ord. 54-64 §2, 1965).

The adoption of the property numbering system codified in this chapter shall in no way affect the legal description of property by lot and block numbers or by metes and bounds.

(Ord. 54-64 §9, 1965).

The system shall be continued, enforced, operated and maintained within the incorporated limits of the city by the office, person or department designated by resolution of the city council, and property numbers assigned within such area shall be done in accordance with the system.

(Ord. 54-64 §5, 1965).

The property numbering system shall consist of base lines from which property numbers shall be established, with the property numbers to progress in an increasing magnitude generally in accordance with the distance from such base lines.

(Ord. 54-64 §3, 1965).

The map or maps referred to in this chapter are made a part of this chapter. Those maps, and all notations, references and other information shown thereon, shall be as much a part of this chapter as if fully set forth in this section.

(Ord. 54-64 §10, 1965).

The property numbering system shall consist of a map or maps, adopted under Section 12.12.060, upon which map or maps the base lines shall be shown or designated and by index lines indicating the principal locations at which major units of the numbering system shall commence, and upon which shall be designated the numbers and location of numbers assigned to particular buildings and lands under the system. Such map or maps constituting any part of such system shall have a legend endorsed thereon indicating that the map or maps constitute a portion of the property numbering system.

(Ord. 54-64 §4, 1965).

A. No street or road crossing any of the base lines of the system shall be known by the same name on both sides of the base line, unless the street or road is adequately designated by a prefix or suffix indicating a principal compass direction to denote the position of the street or road in relation to the base line (i.e., West First Street, East First Street; Wood Road North, Wood Road South).

B. From and after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, any public road, street or way established, or any of same offered in dedication for public use, or any private street or roadway established, shall be named in accordance with the following:

1. All streets, roads and ways running generally northerly and southerly shall be known as "streets" or "roads";

2. All streets, roads and ways running generally easterly and westerly shall be known as "avenues" or "ways";

3. All streets, roads and ways running in a variable, curving or winding direction shall be known as "drives" or "lanes";

4. All cul-de-sac or dead ends, not a continuation of any of the above, shall be known as "courts" or "places";

5. Major arterial routes through the city may be known as "boulevards," "parkways," "freeways" or "throughways."

C. All streets, roads and ways shall be known by the same name for their entire length; and, where a street, road or way changes direction by ninety degrees or a lesser angle, each direction shall be known by a different name, provided that where such street exists on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, such name may continue to exist provided there shall be no further extension of the street, road or way.

(Ord. 54-64 §7, 1965).

For purposes of determining the proper number for a particular location, the number shall be proportional to the distance between the numbers next adjacent to the location on either side, or from the base or index line or lines if no numbers have been previously established on adjoining properties. For purposes of determining whether a number shall be odd or even, it is determined that odd numbers shall be on the right-hand side of the street or road and even numbers on the left-hand side of the street or road in the direction of increasing magnitude of numbers.

(Ord. 54-64 §6, 1965).

The office, person or department designated to enforce, establish, continue, operate and maintain the numbering system shall give notice to the occupants or owners of land or buildings which are assigned or reassigned numbers under this system, which notice shall contain the new number assigned to a particular building or parcel of land, and the date on which the new number shall become effective. Within ten days of such effective date of notice of number assigned or reassigned, the occupant/s or owner/s of the property or building shall cause the number to be displayed upon the building or land in such a manner as to be visible from the street or road upon which the land or building fronts, and shall remove or obscure from public view any old or previous number not in accordance with the system, provided that, in areas where buildings are removed a considerable distance from any public street or road, or where rural free delivery of mail is provided, the number may be displayed upon receptacles designed for the delivery of mail. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit the display of a proper number in accordance with the system upon any roadway or driveway leading to buildings removed a substantial distance from the public road or street upon which the subject site abuts.

(Ord. 54-64 §8, 1965).

Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of an infraction. Every violation is punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for a first violation; and a fine not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars for a second violation of the same section within one year.

(Ord. 139-75, 1975: Ord. 54-64 §11, 1965).