Enforcement

Enforcement. It shall be unlawful for any owner, agent, lessor, lessee or other occupier of any premises to display, advertise or willfully use the wrong address number after written notification by Mayor of Saipan of designated street address number. The owner, agent, lessor, lessee, or other occupier of any premises shall install the street address number as recommended in writing by the Mayor of Saipan, which shall be delivered in person to said owner, agent, lessor, lessee, or other occupier of any premises. Should Mayor of Saipan find any building, structure or premise that is not properly provided with an address, is not correctly addressed, or is not using the assigned address, it shall first, if necessary, assign an address, and then shall in any event notify the owner, agent or lessor and lessee of the correct address and the requirement that such address be used. If the appropriate person or entity fails to comply with the foregoing requirement within 15 working, weekends and holidays excluded, days of written notification by Mayor of Saipan, or is found at any time thereafter to be out of compliance with the notification by the Mayor of Saipan, the penalty therefor shall be as follows: (a) On the first occurrence, the person or entity shall be fined $100 and again instructed to comply within 15 days and apprised of the progressive penalties which will apply if failure to comply continues. (b) On the second and subsequent occurrences, the fine shall increase by $100 per occurrence with 15 days to comply between each. For example, the second occurrence (any time 15 or more days after the above initial notice and $100 fine) is a $200 fine; the third is $300 fine, etc. and may be assessed as frequently as every 15 days. Source: SLL 11-3, § 7, modified; amended by SLL 21-14, § 5(D) (June 17, 2020). Commission Comment: In codifying SLL 11-3, subsections designated with capital letters have been changed to lower case letters to comply with standard code formatting. In codifying SLL 21-14, the Commission removed italic formatting in (a) pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(g).