GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION LAW 2001-145
AN ACT relating to the naming of roads and the assignment of street numbers by counties.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 153A-239.1(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) A county may by ordinance name or rename any road within the county and not within a city, and may pursuant to a procedure established by ordinance assign or reassign street numbers for use on such a road. In naming or renaming a road, a county may not:
(1) Change the name, if any, given to the road by the Board of Transportation, unless the Board of Transportation agrees;
(2) Change the number assigned to the road by the Board of Transportation, but may give the road a name in addition to its number; or
(3) Give the road a name that is deceptively similar to the name of any other public road in the vicinity.
A county shall not name or rename a road or adopt an
ordinance to establish a procedure to assign or reassign street numbers on
a road until it has held a public hearing on the matter. At least 10 days
before the day of the hearing, hearing to name or rename a road,
the board of commissioners shall cause notice of the time, place and subject matter
of the hearing to be prominently posted at the county courthouse, in at least
two public places in the township or townships where the road is located, and
shall publish a notice of such hearing in a newspaper of general circulation
published in the county. At least 10 days before the day of the hearing to
adopt an ordinance to establish a procedure to assign or reassign street
numbers on a road, the board of commissioners shall publish a notice of such
hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. After naming
or renaming a road, or assigning or reassigning street numbers on a road, a
county shall cause notice of its action to be given to the local postmaster
with jurisdiction over the road, to the Board of Transportation, and to any city
within five miles of the road. Names may be initially assigned to new roads
by recordation of an approved subdivision plat without following the procedure
established by this section."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of May, 2001.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 11:25 a.m. this 31st day of May, 2001