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SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES: Division C6 HOUSE NUMBERING*

Copyrighted by SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE & Municipal Code Corporation, 1998.

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Division C6
HOUSE NUMBERING*

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Editor's note--Ord. No. NS-1200.87, adopted Sept. 22, 1971, did not expressly amend this Code; hence codification of §§ 1--5 as Div. C6, §§ C6-1--C6-5, was at the discretion of the editor. Sec. 6 of said ordinance repealed Ord. No. NS-1200.5, § 1, adopted April 7, 1947, pertaining to the numbering of buildings, which ordinance was saved from repeal in former § C6-1. In the codification of Ord. No. NS-1200.87, §§ 1--5, the editor added catchlines in order to facilitate indexing, reference and use, added words in brackets for purposes of clarification, and changed "ordinance" to "division" where appropriate.

Cross reference(s)--Building regulations, Div. C3.

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Sec. C6-1. Planning Commission to create and enlarge districts or areas where numbering desirable; assignment of numbers; proper numbering required.

The County Planning Commission is hereby authorized and directed to designate those districts or areas in the County of Santa Clara which lay outside the boundaries of any municipal corporation existing therein in which such a number of houses or residential buildings have been erected that it would constitute a public benefit to have each of such houses and buildings designated by a specific number so that its location and address may be more readily identified, and is further authorized and directed to assign a specific number to each such house and building located in all such districts, to be known as the house number.

The Commission is further empowered to create one or more such districts as may, in its judgment, be required for the purpose of making this division effective, and to create new districts, or alter or enlarge the size of any existing district created by it whenever it may consider it to the public benefit so to do.

Numbers shall be assigned to all houses in each such district in pursuance of a systematic plan, and provision shall be made for the assignment of numbers to new houses which may hereafter be erected in such districts, to the end that all such houses may ultimately be designated by numbers assigned in regular numerical order, according to the street, road or highway upon which the house may be located and in such manner as to make the same more readily found and identified, and to provide an address for each such house; and all houses and residential buildings shall be numbered to correspond with the number so assigned to it by the Director.

(Ord. No. NS-1200.87, § 1, 9-22-71)

Secs. C6-1.1--C6-1.4. Reserved.

Sec. C6-1.5. Director.

As used in this division, "Director" means the Manager of the Building Inspection Office.

(Ord. No. NS-3.19, § 8, 5-4-76; Ord. No. NS-1100.72, § 7, 8-18-87)

Sec. C6-2. District maps; authority to give notice of assigned numbers.

The Commission shall cause a map to be prepared of each such district created by it for the purposes above mentioned, which man shall show each street, road or highway upon which houses are located, and shall further show the specific number assigned to each such house, and such maps shall be kept at the office of the Director and shall be open to public inspection, and, upon application of the owner or occupant of any house or building, the Director shall furnish him with a memorandum showing the correct number as assigned by the Director to the house or houses owned or occupied by the applicant. Such maps shall be known as Master Plan House Number Maps of Santa Clara County. Any such map or maps may be adopted by the Commission in accordance with the provisions of the State Planning Act, as amended, and upon adoption shall become a part and portion of the Master Plan of the County of Santa Clara.

At any time after the adoption of such a plan by the Commission, the Director may notify the owner or occupant of any house or building to which a number has been assigned of the number assigned to the same in writing.

(Ord. No. NS-1200.87, § 2, 9-22-71; Ord. No. NS-3.16, § 33, 10-8-74; Ord. No. NS-1100.72, § 8, 8-18-87)

Sec. C6-3. How and when to affix number; size of numbers.

Within 120 days after receipt of such written notification [of the assigned number] from the Director, the owner or occupant of a house to which a number has been assigned shall affix the number so assigned to such house to the same; that is, he shall affix such number in a conspicuous manner in a conspicuous place, either at the main entrance to said house from the street, road or highway on which the same is located, or upon some place on the house itself which is readily visible from such street, road or highway, and so as to be easily observed by anyone passing thereon.

The number so affixed shall be at least 1 3/4 inches in height, and of a normally proportioned width.

It shall be the duty of such owner or occupant at once upon affixing the new number as aforesaid to remove from said house or house entrance or any other place where the same may be affixed any different number which might be mistaken for or confused with the house number assigned to said house by the Director.

The Director, with the concurrence of the postmaster of the affected postal area, may extend the 120-day period of compliance required by this section when he finds that an unnecessary hardship could result from compliance within the 120-day period. Any extension granted by the Director shall be in writing.

(Ord. No. NS-1200.87, § 3, 9-22-71; Ord. No. NS-1200.87.1, § 1, 7-11-72; Ord. No. NS-3.16, § 34, 10-8-74; Ord. No. NS-1100.72, § 9, 8-18-87)

Sec. C6-4. When Director authorized to affix numbers; costs deemed a lien.

In the event that any number assigned to any house under the provisions of this division is not affixed thereto in accordance with the terms hereof after notice given as herein provided, the Director is hereby authorized and directed to remove from such house or from the entrance thereof or elsewhere any different number which may be affixed thereto and which may be mistaken for or confused with the house number assigned to said house; and further said Director shall cause the number regularly assigned to such house as provided herein to be affixed thereto in accordance with the terms of this division; and all necessary costs of said work shall constitute a lien against the house or building and the land on which the same is located, and shall be paid and collected in the same manner as that provided for in Health and Safety Code §§ 1807--1811 [now repealed].

(Ord. No. NS-1200.87, § 4, 9-22-71; Ord. No. NS-1200.87.1, § 2, 7-11-72; Ord. No. NS-3.16, § 35, 10-8-74; Ord. No. NS-1100.72, § 10, 8-18-87)

Sec. C6-5. Violations a misdemeanor; penalty.

In the event that the owner of any house refuses to comply with the terms of this division by failing to affix the house number assigned to any house or houses owned by him after notification, or by failing to remove any numbers affixed to such house, house entrance or elsewhere, which may be confused with the number assigned thereto or mistaken therefor, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $50.00 or by imprisonment in the County jail for not more than five days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. No. NS-1200.87, § 5, 9-22-71; Ord. No. NS-1200.87.1, § 3, 7-11-72)

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