Current through Register No. 13, March 27, 2025
(a) For the
purpose of effective delivery of enhanced 911 services within a municipality,
the bureau shall, with the agreement of the municipality, create a verified
master street address guide, a verified street address guide, and a
comprehensive map of the municipality if:
(1)
The municipality makes a written request that the bureau do so; and
(2) The request is signed by a majority of
the members of the governing body of the municipality.
(b) A municipality may assist in the creation
of the comprehensive map by:
(1) Providing
the bureau with a verified master street address guide;
(2) Providing the bureau with a verified
street address guide; and
(3)
Providing the bureau annually with an updated master street address guide and
an updated street address guide.
(c) For the purposes of creating the verified
master street address guide, the verified street address guide, and the
comprehensive map, the bureau shall, as needed, request a municipality to:
(1) Designate a person to act as liaison to
the bureau and provide the bureau with a copy of the most accurate road map
available;
(2) Designate one or
more representatives of the municipality to accompany the bureau's personnel on
drives upon the municipality's public and private ways having multiple
structures upon them, for the purposes of:
b. Recording access
points to structures; and
c.
Recording the location of fire hydrants, hiking trails, pay phones and other
facilities which might be used in the delivery of emergency services;
(3) Direct the liaison to review
for accuracy and correct the road map produced by the bureau as frequently as
necessary to create a complete and accurate road map of the
municipality;
(4) Follow the road
naming guidelines set forth in (d) and (e);
(5) Timely accept the road map as complete
and accurate in its representation of the names and locations of roads by
providing the bureau with a letter signed by a majority of the members of the
municipality's governing body;
(6)
Designate one or more representatives of the municipality to accompany the
bureau's crew on drives upon the municipality's public and private ways having
multiple structures upon them for the purpose of verifying the addresses of
such structures and of the facilities described in (c)(2)c.;
(7) Timely accept the address map as complete
and accurate by providing the bureau with a letter signed by a majority of the
members of the municipality's governing body;
(8) Assign addresses in accordance with the
addressing guidelines set forth in (f) whenever new addresses are
assigned;
(9) Reassign addresses
whenever existing addresses differ from those called for by the guidelines set
forth in (f); and
(10) Timely
accept the verified master street address guide and the verified street address
guide by providing the bureau with a letter signed by a majority of the members
of the municipality's governing body.
(d) The bureau shall request a municipality
to name new streets and roads and rename existing streets and roads to avoid:
(1) Names of streets or roads which sound
like the names of other streets or roads within the municipality;
(2) Names of streets or roads which
incorporate special punctuation such as hyphens, apostrophes and
dashes;
(3) Names of streets or
roads which are words of directionality, such as "north", "south", "east" and
"west";
(4) Names of streets or
roads which are easy to confuse with the names of subdivisions and commercial
developments, such as names which end in the word "plaza" or in the word
"place";
(5) Names of streets or
roads which are words commonly used as suffixes following the names of streets
or roads, such as "court", "lane" and "heights"; and
(6) Changes in the names of continuous
streets or roads at intersections or other points along their
courses.
(e) The bureau
shall request that a municipality, when naming new streets and roads, not use
the names of families or individuals.
(f) For each street or road, the bureau shall
request a municipality to designate the end of the street or road at which
address numbering begins and to assign or reassign addresses to achieve the
following result:
(1) Numbers are assigned
using a uniform frontage interval system that matches the interval used in the
municipality. If no standard interval exists for the municipality, a 50 foot
increment is used to assign addresses for standard new roads and a 10 foot
increment for new roads in thickly developed areas;
(2) Odd numbers are successive on one side of
the street or road, and even numbers are successive on the opposite side of the
street or road. The odd/even numbering of a new street or road is consistent
with the other street in the municipality. If no standard exists, odds are on
the left and evens are on the right; and
(3) In situations where there are
insufficient address numbers remaining, the municipality should avoid the use
of fractional and alpha numeric address number assignments for structures and
instead renumber the street in accordance with this section.
(g) Upon completion of the
verified master street address guide, the verified street address guide, and
the comprehensive map, the bureau shall, if requested, provide the municipality
with paper copies of the comprehensive map and its governing body with the map
in electronic form.
(h) For the
purpose of keeping current the comprehensive map, the bureau shall request the
assistance of the municipality in informing the bureau of changes in the
location of roads, structures and facilities described in (c)(2)c. occurring
after the completion of the comprehensive map.
(i) The bureau shall update the comprehensive
map whenever the municipality informs the bureau of changes in the location of
structures or facilities described in (c)(2)c., or of roads to be added to, or
deleted from, the map.
(j) The
bureau shall work on comprehensive maps and requests for updates of such maps
on a first in, first out, basis.
#9091, eff 2-21-08 (See Revision Note at chapter heading
for Saf-C 7000)
