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Dickinson
County 911 Ordinance
DICKINSON COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 93-3
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED “UNIFORM RURAL ADDRESS SYSTEM ORDINANCE”
BE IN
ENACTED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, DICKINSON COUNTY, IOWA AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Purpose.
This ordinance mandates the use of a uniform rural address system for
the residents of Dickinson County in order to promote the convenience,
safety and general welfare of those residents.
SECTION 2.
Definitions. For use in this ordinance, the following terms or words
shall be interpreted or defined as follows:
1.
“Person” shall mean any individual, firm, corporation, unincorporated
association or other entitiy.
2.
“Building” shall mean anything constructed, erected or built, the use
of which requires a location on the ground and designed for the
support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals,
chattels or property of any kind. The connection of two (2) buildings
by means of an open porch, breezeway, passageway, carport or other
such open structures, with or without a roof, shall make them one (1)
building. Such structures attached to the principal building shall be
deemed a part of the principal building.
3.
“Principal building” shall mean a nonaccessory building in which a
principal use of the lot, on which it is located, is conducted.
4.
“Accessory building” shall mean a building located on the same lot
with a principal building and of a nature customarily incidental and
subordinate to the principal building.
5. “Lot”
shall mean a parcel of land under one ownership on which a principal
building and its accessories are, or may be, placed together with the
required open spaces, having it frontage upon one or more streets.
6.
“Street” shall mean land intended for vehicular traffic to and from a
lots and which has right of use by more than one lot owner.
7.
“Street marker” shall mean signs or markers placed to indicate the
number or name of the various streets as assigned within the system.
8.
“Address marker” shall mean the numbers affixed to a principal
building indicating the address of the lot as assigned within the
system.
9.
“System” shall mean the Uniform Rural Address System.
10.
“House grid work” shall mean the house numbering scheme used in the
uniform rural address system.
11.
“Map” shall mean the map currently approved by the Dickinson County
E911 Service Board.
12.
“Engineer” shall mean the Dickinson County Engineer
13.
“Administrator” shall mean the person or entity appointed by the Board
to administer the system.
14.
“Board” shall mean the Dickinson County Board of Supervisors.
15.
“Coordinator” shall mean the individual, firm, corporation or other
entity that has the responsibility of the entire 911 system.
SECTION 3.
Establishment by Resolution. The Board may, by resolution, establish
rules for the implementation of this ordinance.
SECTION 4.
Extent
of System. The uniform rural address system shall extend over the
entire unincorporated areas of Dickinson County. However,
unincorporated areas with an existing system, may, at the discretion
of the Board and Coordinator, maintain the existing system. The Board
may, by resolution, accept any incorporated areas with the county into
the system provided the governing body of such incorporated area has
enacted an ordinance adopting the provisions of this ordinance by
reference.
SECTION 5.
Implementation of System. The administrator shall cause or determine
the following has been accomplished:
1.
Distribution of maps to all emergency providers, dispatchers, county
offices, the United States Post Office, and make maps available to
rural residents and the general public.
2.
Notification of affected post offices, emergency providers,
dispatchers, county offices and all providers and offices located in
adjacent counties affected by the implementation of the system of the
effective date of the system and the address assignments.
3.
Notification of all residents affected by the system stating:
a. The
date the system will take effect.
b. The
date the post office and county offices will begin using the system.
c. The
location and time when the address markers can be obtained.
d. The
date the address markers shall be in place
e. How
the address markers are to be placed.
f. An
explanation of the requirements of the system and how to use it.
4.
Distribution of the address markers.
SECTION 6.
Address
Markers. Dickinson County shall furnish permanent address markers to
every person owning, controlling, occupying or using any principal
building within the system. Every person owning, controlling,
occupying or using any principal building within the system shall
cause the address marker to be placed upon the principal building in
the manner and by the time specified by the administrator, so that it
is clearly visible from the addressed street. On principal buildings
located away from the addressed street so that placement of the
address marker upon the building will not allow it to be clearly
visible, then the address marker shall be placed on an approved
address marker post and placed on the lot upon which the principal
building occupies, as directed by the Administrator, so that it is
clearly visible from the addressed street.
Any
address marker existing on the principal building at the time
provisions of the ordinance take effect, and that are not in
conformity hereto, shall be removed and replaced by a conforming
address marker. Any address marker which becomes damaged or destroyed
shall be replaced by a like address marker.
The
provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to accessory buildings,
except at the request of the owner or person in control of the
accessory building and with the consent of the Administrator, if the
accessory building is located on a lot separate from the applicable
principal building.
SECTION 7.
New
Structures. Every person erecting a principal building after the
effective date of the system shall, within seven (7) days of the
commencement of construction of the building, notify the administrator
of same. The administrator shall, within fourteen (14) days of said
notification, assign an address number to the building. The owner of
the building, at his own expense, shall cause an address marker to be
affixed to the building or an approved address marker post placed, in
conformity with this ordinance, as soon as the construction allows.
SECTION 8.
Maintenance of System. The administrator shall continue maintenance of
the system. This shall include, but not be limited to, assigning all
new address numbers, providing address markers, providing replacement
markers, and in conjunction with the engineer replacing street markers
as needed. The administrator and engineer shall make periodic
inspections of the rural areas of the county to insure that the
provisions of this ordinance are being complied with.
A fee
for replacement address markers and address markers for new buildings
shall be paid to Dickinson County for persons requiring same. The fee
shall be no more than required to cover the cost of the address marker
purchased.
SECTION 9.
Penalty.
It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally refuse to place
or replace an address marker, as required by this ordinance, or to
intentionally remove, damage, deface, alter or destroy any address or
street marker, except to replace an address marker which has been
unintentionally damaged altered or destroyed or to remove an address
marker from a building which is being destroyed or removed or which is
no longer a principal building.
Any
person violating any provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of no more than $100.00 or
imprisonment in the county jail for no more than thirty (30) days for
each offense. Each day a violation is permitted to exist constitutes a
separate offense.
SECTION
10.
Enforcement. The administrator shall enforce this ordinance.
SECTION
11.
Repealer.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions
of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
SECTION
12.
Severability Clause. If any section, provision or part of this ordinance
shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional, such adjudication shall
not affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole or any section,
provision or part thereof not adjudged invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION
13.
When
Effective. This ordinance shall be in effect from and after its
passage, approval, publication or posting as required by Law.
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