2018-08-07 S&O Agenda - Att 5 to Item 7 - Local Law Amendments

    Noosa Shire Council Local Law No. 4 (Local Government Controlled Areas, Facilities and Roads) 2015                4



Part 2                        Use of local government controlled areas,
                              facilities and roads3

5     Prohibited and restricted activities
      (1) The local government may, by subordinate local law, declare an activity to be—
             (a)      prohibited in a local government controlled area or road (a prohibited
                      activity); or
             (b)      restricted in a local government controlled area or road (a restricted
                      activity).
            Example for paragraph (a)—
                   The local government may declare that the lighting of fires is a prohibited activity in all local
                   government controlled areas, in a particular local government controlled area or in a part of a
                   local government controlled area.
            Example for paragraph (b)-
                   The local government may declare that the playing of sport generally, or the playing of certain
                   sports, is a restricted activity in that it is restricted to particular times of the day, week, month
                   or year in all local government controlled areas, in a particular local government controlled
                   area or in a part of a local government controlled area.
      (2) The local government must take reasonable steps to provide notice to members of
          the public regarding restricted activities declared for local government controlled
          areas or roads.
      (3) In this section—
            reasonable steps may include the display of a notice at a prominent place within
            each local government controlled area for which a declaration under subsection
       (1) has been made, stating—
             (a)      if the declaration relates to the whole area—the restricted activities for the
                      area; and
             (b)      if the declaration relates to a part of the area—the restricted activities and a
                      description of the part of the area to which the declaration applies; and
             (c)      in general terms, the provisions of subsection (4).
      (4)   A person must not engage in a prohibited activity or a restricted activity.
        Maximum penalty - 20 penalty units


6     Motor vehicle access to local government controlled areas
      (1) A motor vehicle access area is an area within a local government controlled area
          that is—


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  Local Law No. 1 (Administration) 2015 deals with activities on local government controlled areas and roads
that require the local government’s approval, such as commercial use of local government controlled areas and
roads, alterations or improvements to local government controlled areas, and other miscellaneous regulated
activities.