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(Lighted Residential House Numbers)
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows
(omitting the parenthetical footnotes from the official text of
the enacted or amended provisions of the County Ordinance Code) :
SECTION I . SUMMARY. This ordinance amends Title 7 of the
Ordinance Code by supplementing the 1985 Edition of the Uniform
Building Code, as modified as the County's Ordinance Code. In
particular, the Uniform Building Code is supplemented in the
unincorporated area of the County by requiring lighted address
numbers for new residential dwelling units .
rSECTION II . Section 74-3.505 is added. to the County Ordinance
Code to read as follows:
74-3 . 503 UBC Sec. 513, Premises Identification. Section
513 is amended by adding subsection (b) , to read:
Premises Identification.
Sec. 513 . (a) General. Approved numbers or
addresses shall be provided for all new
buildings in such a position as to be plainly
visible and legible from the street or road
fronting the property.
(b) Residential Illumination. 1 . In
addition to (a) , every new residential
dwelling unit building shall be equipped with
a lighted (illuminated) house number or
address plainly visible and legible from the
street or road fronting the property.
2 . As appropriate, the planning agency or
building inspection director may grant
exceptions to this subsection (b) 's
requirements when satisfied that the
application of its requirements would impose
an unreasonable hardship and expense for the
owner and/or applicant due to special
circumstances applicable to the involved new
building(s) because of location, topography,
or surroundings.
(Ord. 88-7o §2 . )
SECTION III . EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective
30 days after passage, and within 15 days of passage shall be
published once with the names of the supervisors voting for and
against it in the Contra Costa Times, a newspaper published in
this County.
PASSED and ADOPTED on August 30, 1988 , by the following
vote:
AYES: Supervisors Powers, Fanden, Torlakson.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Supervisors McPeak and Schroder.
ABSTAIN: None.
ATTEST: PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors and
County Administrator
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Deputy Board Chair
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ORDINANCE NO. 88-70