Sign Up For Safety: Order Your Mandatory Civic Signs Today

civic signEmergency services can't help you if they can't find you. Without properly posted civic numbers to guide them, emergency responders may have difficulty locating the site of a 911 emergency. Civic numbers are relatively inexpensive, and extremely effective.

Posting of official civic address signs is mandatory within the Municipality of the County of Cumberland. If you are missing any official civic address signs (blue with reflective roman numerals), please contact us to order a civic address sign for $20 (complete with locally manufactured post). You can also order signs from most fire departments; see the Emergency Management Office's (18 kB) list of province-wide suppliers.

If there is any doubt about your civic address, please don't hesitate to contact us to verify or find it for you. You could also view your civic address using the NSCAF Civic Viewer.

Another way to verify your address is by contacting the Emergency Management Office, at 1-800-388-3911.

If your land is vacant, you may not have a civic address; civics are generally associated with a building, although they may also be associated with other geographic locations of human activity (for example, recreational fields, parks, trail heads, etc). Some properties will have multiple civic addresses, especially if there are several buildings on a property.

If your sign is absent, and we erect a sign for you as part of the bylaw enforcement program, it will be more expensive to you. That expense will be added to your next tax bill. For more information, please see our civic addressing page and our 2006-03 Civic Addressing (219 kB).

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