[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town of Clinton 8-31-1988. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Building construction — See Ch. 234.
The purpose of this chapter is to promote public
safety and convenience through a building numbering system ensuring
that addresses can be identified with the ease and speed essential
to the quick response of emergency services, such as firefighting,
police and emergency medical care.
It shall be the duty of the owners of all residential,
commercial, and other buildings within the Town of Clinton to identify
such buildings or parts thereof with numbers as herein provided. It
shall be unlawful for any person to place, maintain, or allow to remain
on a building or any unit thereof any number other than the one required
by this chapter.
A.
The Board of Selectmen of the Town of Clinton may
assign to each building, or part of a building, an identification
number by which such building or part thereof shall be designated.
The Board of Selectmen shall be authorized to change the identification
number of any building or part thereof, at any time and from time
to time, whenever such change is deemed necessary or appropriate.
B.
All new buildings on any street or highway within
the Town of Clinton shall have affixed thereto identification numbers
assigned hereunder prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy.
Whenever the Board of Selectmen, acting in accordance
with this chapter, shall have assigned an identification number or
numbers to a building, it shall send to the owner thereof written
notice thereof and shall direct such owner to affix to such building
the number or numbers assigned, to be completed within 30 days after
the sending of such notice.
It shall be the duty of the owner of every building
existing on the effective date of this chapter, without prior notice,
to affix the identification number previously assigned to such building
or, in the absence of such assignment, the identification number which
customarily has been used for such building. Such numbers shall be
affixed within 30 days of the effective date of this chapter.
A.
The identification number of a building shall be located
on the exterior front of the building or on a post located between
the building and the public or private street on which it fronts.
The numerals shall be at least three inches in height, shall be of
a color contrasting with the color of the background material to which
they are affixed and shall be made of substantial and permanent material.
The identification number shall be placed or affixed so as not to
be easily effaced or removed and shall be positioned not less than
four feet nor more than 10 feet from the surface of the ground directly
below it. The identification number shall be so placed as to assure
clear visibility from the public or private street on which the building
fronts.
B.
If a building is set back more than 100 feet from
the center line of the street on which it fronts, or if the building's
identification number cannot be made clearly visible from such street
because of an intervening obstruction, the identification number shall
also be affixed to a post located at the driveway entrance which provides
the closest vehicular access to the building or part of the building
to which the identification number has been assigned.
C.
For buildings containing two or more residential,
business or commercial units which have entrances from interior passageways,
identification numbers shall be affixed on or adjacent to every exterior
door of the building as well as on or next to the entrance door of
each individual unit.
D.
For building complexes consisting of two or more residential,
business, or commercial building units served by separate driveways,
signs shall be posted at the entrance to each such driveway, or if
two or more of such driveways intersect, at each intersection, listing
the identification number of the unit served by each driveway; in
addition, identification numbers shall be affixed on or next to every
entrance door of each building unit.
