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A -ZICLE 12. <br />Roads and Bride es- <br />§ 153A -239. Public road deffned. <br />Local Modific&60o. — B a k: 1979, 2nd <br />Sam., 4 1319; Cwbarrut: 1981. e, 568. aamending 1979. - <br />t 2nd Sere, G 1319; Avery: 1983, r- 96: Brunswick: <br />1983, r- 9b: Cabarrus: 1983, c 98; New Hanover. <br />1963. a 96; Swker: 1963, c. 299; Surry: 1983. t 299. <br />153A•240. Naming roads and assign- <br />ing street numbers in unin- <br />corporated areas. <br />A county may by ordinance name or <br />rename any public road within the county <br />and not within a• city, and may assign or <br />reassign street numbers for use on such a <br />road- In naming or renaming a public <br />road, a county may not <br />(1) Change the name, if any, given to <br />the road by the Board of Trans - <br />ppoortation, unless the Board of <br />Tiansportation agrees; <br />(2) Change the number assigned to <br />the road by the Board of Trans- <br />portation, but may give the road a <br />name in addition to its number; or <br />(3) Give the road a name that is <br />deceptively similar to the name of <br />any other public road in the vicin- <br />ity. <br />A county shall not name or rename a <br />road or assign or reassign street numbers <br />on a road until it has held a public hearing <br />i on the matter. At )east 10 days before the <br />day of the hearing, the board of commis - <br />sioners shall cause notice of the time, <br />Vand subject matter of the hearing to <br />be prominent)y posted at the county court- <br />house, in at least two public places in the <br />township or townships where the road is <br />located, and shall publish a notice of such <br />hearing in at ]east one newspaper of <br />general circulation published in the <br />county. After naming or renaming a public <br />road, or assigning or reassigning street <br />numbers on a public road, a county shall <br />cause notice of its action to be given to the <br />local postmaster With iurisdiCUOD over the <br />road, to the Board of Transportation, and <br />to any city within five miles of the road. <br />This section does not repeal or modify <br />Chapter 945 of the Session Laws of 1953, <br />which pertains to naming streets in <br />iiannapolis. (1957, c. 1068; 1973, c. 507, s. <br />5; c. 822, s.1 ;19S1, cc. 112, 518.) <br />In this Article "public road" o: "road" <br />means any roar, street, highway, thor- <br />oughfare, or other way of laassage that has <br />been irrevocably aedicated to the public or <br />in which the public has acquired rights by <br />prescription, without regard to whether it <br />is open for travel. (1973, c. 822, s. 1.) <br />Local Modib"tioa -- Brunswick. 1979, Ind <br />Sex r_ 1319: Cabaaur 1981. r- 568. amending 1979. <br />2nd 5 r 1319 ForsytlL 1981. c 558: Guilford. <br />1979, c. 283: Avery: 1983. w 91; Brunswick 1983. a <br />9a: Caba -rur 1993, a 98; New FAnovet. 1983. a 98; <br />Stoker. 1983. c. 299; Surry.1983. c. 299. <br />Editor's Not` — Pursuant to Session Laws 1973. <br />r_ Sod, S. S. -Board of Tn= orsatiazi' has been <br />substituted fa: -State mgbway Commissice and for <br />180 <br />