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(a)
Establishment by town engineer. The town engineer is hereby authorized to establish the initial system of numbering for existing buildings and shall assign numbers to all new construction, as it occurs, and keep records of the numbers so assigned.
(b)
Numbering method. The numbering shall be according to the following system:
(1)
One number shall be allowed for each 20 feet of street or highway frontage.
(2)
Odd numbers shall be assigned to the west and south sides and even numbers to the east and north sides of streets and highways.
(3)
Numbers shall commence on the east and ascend to the west on east-west streets. North of Narragansett Avenue numbers shall ascend south to north. South of Narragansett Avenue numbers shall ascend north to south. All cul-de-sacs shall be numbered counterclockwise.
(Code 1982, § 17-2; Code 2003, § 14-78)