County Ord 463 House NumberingORDINANCE NO. 463
(AS AMENDED THROUGH 463.2)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.
463 PROVIDING FOR A HOUSE NUMBERING SYSTEM
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Riverside, State of California, do ordain
as follows:
Section 1. It is hereby made the duty of the Building Director to divide the County
into districts, assigning a number to each such district, and to establish and formulate a
uniform system of numbering for all property fronting on all public roads, County roads and
State Highways in the County. Provision shall be made to integrate incorporated areas into
the system upon the request of the particular area.
Section 2. When an official number has been established for property fronting on
any public road as provided in this ordinance, it shall be the duty of the Building Director to
notify the owner of such property or the person in possession of such property upon which
there exists, any house, store, storeroom, or other building, of the number established for
such property; and the said owner or the said person in possession of such property, shall
within thirty (30) days after said notice has been given as herein provided, place and
thereafter continuously maintain the number established for such property upon said
premises in such a place and position as to be plainly visible from the public road upon
which said property fronts, said number so placed and maintained to be constituted by
figures not less than three (3) inches in height; and any house number other than the
official number as established under the provisions of this ordinance, shall be removed from
such property by the owner or by the person then in possession of such property, within ten
(10) days from the giving of said notice establishing the official number, except that a Rural
Route Box Number may be displayed.
Section 3. Any person proposing to construct any house, store, storeroom or other
building fronting on a public road shall submit to the Building Director a legal description of
the property on which said structure is to be placed and obtain a house number for said
structure.
Within thirty (30) days after the structure has been completed the number shall be
placed on the premises in the manner provided in Section 2.
Section 4. As used in this ordinance, "person" shall include any individual firm,
partnership, or corporation.
Section 5. Violations and Penalties. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate
any provision of this Ordinance, or to violate any provision of any permit granted pursuant
to this Ordinance. Any person violating any provision of this Ordinance or any provision of
any permit granted pursuant to this Ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of an infraction or
misdemeanor as hereinafter specified. Such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate
offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any
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provision of this Ordinance or violation of any provision of any permit granted pursuant to
this Ordinance, is committed, continued or permitted.
Any person so convicted shall be (1) guilty of an infraction offense and punished by
a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for a first violation; (2) guilty of an
infraction offense and punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200) for a
second violation on the same site and perpetrated by the same person. The third and any
additional violations on the same site and perpetrated by the same person shall constitute a
misdemeanor offense and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars
($1000) or six months in jail, or both. Notwithstanding the above, a first offense may be
charged and prosecuted as a misdemeanor. Payment of any penalty herein shall not
relieve a person from the responsibility for correcting the violation.
Section 6. Remedies. All remedies provided for herein shall be cumulative and not
exclusive. The conviction and punishment of any person hereunder shall not relieve such
person from the responsibility of correcting prohibited house numbering nor prevent the
enforced correction or removal thereof.
Section 7. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance
is for any reason, held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of
the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The Board of Supervisors hereby declares it
would have passed this Ordinance, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and
phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,
sentences, clauses or phrases might be declared unconstitutional.
Adopted: 463 05/16/1960 (Eff: 06/15/1960)
Amended: 463.1 06/14/1971 (Eff: 07/14/1971)
463.2 Item 3.4 of 01/19/1993 (Eff: 02/18/1993)
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