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i~~= <br />Memorandum To: Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />From: Sam Gattis, County Manager <br />Date: ~ January 26, 1979 <br />Subject: Naming of Rural Roads <br />• LEGAL BA5I5 <br />Section 153A-240 of our general statutes prescribes the conditions <br />under which a board of county commissioners may name the public roads <br />within a county that are -not within a municipality. Restrictions are <br />placed on this rather general authority. Aboard of county commissioners <br />cannot: <br />1) Name or rename any road unless a public hearing is <br />held after notice has been pasted in at least three <br />places along the road to be named or renamed. <br />~~_ ~ 2) Change a road name assigned by the Department of <br />Transportation unless the Department consents. - <br />3) Assign a road name deceptively similiar to the <br />name of any other road within the county. • <br />• OUTLINE OF TASK <br />The task of naming the rural roads within a county can be broken <br />into several parts: <br />1) Establish long run goals of program and formulate <br />policies designed to implement these goals. <br />2) Identification-of roads to .be named and gathering of data <br />(names, numbers, etc.) relating to these reads. <br />3) Research and publicity preliminary to tentative proposal <br />of road names including community meetings to determine <br />local sentiment. <br />4) Action by a "task force" to resolve problems identified <br />in step 3. <br />5) Public hearings by Board of Commissioners to approve names. <br />6)• Activate mechanism to assure continuing naming of roads. <br />7) Placing signs. <br />8) Replacing vandalized signs. <br />