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18 <br />(a) A-. Responsibilities. The Address Administrator shall be responsible for the interpretation <br />and administration of this ordinance, including, but not limited to: <br />(1) Maintaining a system and assigning all numbers for addressable structures; <br />(2) Approval of change of existing addresses when necessary to facilitate sequential <br />house number assignments along existing roads; <br />(3) Establishment of interdepartmental infrastructure to insure-,. continued operation of <br />addressing system to meet the spirit and the intent of this o, j&nance; <br />(4) Notification to appropriate citizens, governments, ; agencies, and post offices as <br />required by law; and <br />ff!)(b) Clerical or Administrative Errors. The Address Administrator is authorized to correct <br />such clerical or administrative errors that may from time to time occur in *geping with the <br />overall plan and the intent of this ordinance and to approve alternate methods of displaying <br />house numbers which meet the intent of this ordinance when strict adherence to these <br />standards cannot be reasonably met. <br />21 -1987, § 3, eff. 4 -21 -1987; <br />-13 -2011. Ai4-1I -_ eff. 01 01 <br />ARTICLE Sec. 6 -34 ROAD NAMING <br />(a) Roads located within the unincorporated areas of Orange County, whether public and private, <br />shall not be named or renamed by any method except those set forth in this Article. All <br />existing, proposed, or constructed public or private roads or driveways that provides, or will <br />provide, access _to three (3) or more habitable structures that are more than seventy -five feet <br />from the'main road shall have a street name and address range assigned. <br />Road N <br />o new public or private road shall be named without approval of the <br />ddress Administrator. <br />b. "The name of any new road, whether it is public or private, shall not <br />duplicate or be phonetically similar to any other road already named <br />within Orange County. This subsection shall not apply to the extension of <br />existing roads, which should whenever possible be given the same name. <br />c. New subdivision roads, whether public or private, shall be named prior to <br />the approval of any proposed subdivision or plat. <br />Draft Road Naming and Addressing Ordinance 4 <br />,4 o-14 November 30 , 2011 <br />