Building Numbers Act 2025

§1 Purpose

An Act to permit His Majesty’s Government to reform building numbers on roads to introduce consistency and enforce standards in a manner that minimises disruption and long-term confusion.

§2 Definitions

  1. ”Building” is defined as any property located beside one or more roads that is said to belong to one road as judged by its street address.
  2. ”Street address” refers to a unique identifier for a building assigned by a local Council or His Majesty’s Government that is denoted by a house number or name, a street, a city, and a country.
  3. ”Road” and “street” is defined as a flat strip of concrete or other standardised building material that is optionally painted with markings to denote lanes.
  4. ”City” is defined as a metropolitan area recognised by His Majesty’s government with defined borders.
  5. ”Pavement” refers to a strip of concrete or other standardised building material placed parallel to and touching a road for the purposes of allowing pedestrians to walk on it.
  6. ”Mailbox” refers to an upwards-facing barrel placed on top of a singular fence and with a sign denoting the street address placed on the side of the barrel.
  7. This Act uses all Defininitions of the Definitions Act 2025.

§3 Buildings and Streets

  1. Each road within the bounds of a city SHOULD be named an arbitrary name followed by either “street”, “road”, “lane”, or “avenue”.
  2. Every road classed as a single carriageway MUST contain a pavement on at least one side of the road for at least a third of of its total length.
  3. Every building SHOULD have a standardised mailbox within reach of a pavement and MUST NOT obstruct the pavement in any manner.
    1. A building MAY omit a mailbox entirely if they receive permission from the local Council or His Majesty’s Government.
    2. An individual who omits a mailbox without prior consultation in one or more of their properties shall be guilty of an offence which carries a fine between £100 and £500.
      1. If a court in coordination with the local Council decides that the omission is unlawful, a Mailbox Placement Order MUST be written, mandating the installation of a mailbox within 28 days.
      2. The local Countil SHOULD offer to pay for the cost of purchasing and installing the mailbox.
      3. An entity who fails to install a mailbox after the Mailbox Placement Order expires is guilty of an offence which carries a fine between £5,000 and £15,000.
      4. An entity who fails to install a mailbox after the Mailbox Placement Order expires is guilty of an offence which carries a fine between £5,000 and £15,000.
      5. If a court in coordination with the local Council instead decides that the omission is lawful, the fine MAY be written off, in which case the payment is returned to the accused.
        1. A lawful omission as found in §3.2.3 MUST NOT be kept in record of any nature by any government department, including but not limited to courts or police departments.
    3. If the local Council believes that a mailbox is in an invalid location and cannot be reasonably relocated, the local Council SHOULD write a Mailbox Removal Order.
      1. If a court in coordination with the local Council finds the Council’s Mailbox Removal Order to be in error, the council must pay damages totaling £500.
        1. If the Council or any other entity removed the mailbox prior to this finding, the Council MUST reinstall the mailbox and pay said installation.
      2. If an entity fails to remove the mailbox after the Mailbox Removal Order expires, the local Council MAY forcefully remove the mailbox.
    4. If the local Council finds that a mailbox is in an invalid location but can be easily moved to a valid one without significant cost, the Council MUST write a Mailbox Movement Order.
      1. The Council SHOULD offer to pay for the costs of moving the mailbox.
    5. The Mailbox Placement Order, the Mailbox Movement Order, and the Mailbox Removal Order MUST expire no less than 28 days after the Order is sent.
      1. Any Council who fails to provide sufficient expiry for a Mailbox Placement Order MUST immediately install the mailbox and pay for installation.
      2. Any Council who fails to provide sufficient expiry for a Mailbox Removal Order MUST immediately either:
        1. Send another Mailbox Removal order with sufficient expiry, or;
        2. Reinstall the mailbox and pay for installation.
      3. The sign on a mailbox MUST be perpendicular to the pavement the mailbox is within reach of.
  4. The headquarters of the Londinium Times MUST be permitted to have an uncomplaint mailbox for historical purposes, and MAY choose to use a complaint mailbox alongside said uncomplaint mailbox.

§4 Building Numbers

  1. Every building on a street SHOULD be numbered based on the legal numbering convention (§4.1).
  2. A Council that fails to number a building(s) on a street(s) according to the convention (§4.1) without sufficient cause MUST pass a Street Renumbering Ordnance (§5).

§4.1 Convention

  1. The buildings at the logical beginning of the road MUST receive the starting numbers (#1 and #2).
  2. Starting from the logical beginning, left-hand houses MUST receive an odd number and right-hand houses MUST receive an even number.
  3. For blank spots, house numbers MUST be skipped irregardless of whether the affected land can, should, or will be used as a building.

§5 Renumbering

  1. A local Council is permitted to pass a Street Renumberning Ordnance, which is a document that MUST include the following information:
    1. The affected street(s);
    2. The date(s) the renumbering will take place;
    3. The reason(s) for the renumbering.
  2. A time period of at least one week between the Street Renumbering Ordnance and the date of the renumbring MUST be given.
  3. A local Council MUST NOT pass a Street Renumbering Ordnance without sufficienct cause and consideration for potential confusion and disruption to postal services, citizens, and businesses.
  4. The Street Renumbering Ordnance MUST be delivered to the following locations:
    1. Every mailbox in the affected street(s);
    2. The Ordnances section of the KUJ government website.

§6 Logging

  1. Each building number changed as a result of a Street Renumbering Ordnance MUST be logged in a dedicated document recorded by the government indefinitely.

  2. The document must be formatted as follows:

    1. The first page MUST be a title page containing the text “Street Renumbering Ordnance Log: ” followed by the Ordnance number.
    2. Each subsequent page MUST contain ONE log entry, with the following information included:
      1. Building name and street;
      2. Previous house number;
      3. New house number.
    3. An individual log entry MAY spill across multiple pages.

  3. If an entity owning a property on (one of) the affected street(s) of the Ordnance request a copy of the Log, the local Council MUST comply and provide a copy.

    1. The copy MUST NOT be protected against further distribution, copying, or sharing.