Posting Your Address


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POSTING YOUR ADDRESS

TIPS AND TRICKS

Enhanced 9-1-1 (E-9-1-1) is vital to an accurate and rapid dispatch of appropriate public safety services in a time of emergency. However, emergency services must be able to find you. The posting of your address is key to ensuring there is no delay in the arrival of the police or fire departments. The following are guidelines for displaying your address:

• Always place your number on your home or business.

• Post your number on both sides of the mailbox.

• If the number on the structure is not visible from the road and the mailbox is not next to the driveway, place a post with the number at the driveway's entrance.

• If the mailbox is located at the end of a private road, post the number and the road name on both sides of the box. This limits potential confusion caused by numbers that appear out of sequence.

• Posted numbers should be high enough so that snow does not cover them.

• Numbers on structures should be a minimum of 4 inches high and a contrasting color.

• Reflective materials improve visibility.

• Put driving directions next to each telephone for easy reference.

THE LAW

Montgomery City Code, Section 40-43, paragraph 3 states:

The numbers shall be conspicuously placed immediately above, on or at the side of the proper door of each building so that the number can be seen plainly from the street. Whenever any building is situated more than fifty feet from the sidewalk line, the number of such building shall be conspicuously displayed on the owner’s property at the sidewalk line, near the walk, driveway or common entrance to such building and upon the gate post, fence, post or other appropriate place so as to be easily discernable from the sidewalk.