2018-08-07 S&O Agenda - Att 2 to Item 7 - Admin & Other Local Law (Amendment) Local Law (No.1) 2018

                                                  Noosa Shire Council
                        Administration and Other Local Laws (Amendment) Local Law (No. 1) 2018                          6

                 Example for paragraph (b) — the local government may incur costs and expenses in rectifying damage
                 caused by a person’s interference with vegetation, including —
                            Revegetating the area at which the interference with the vegetation occurred to the same
                             state as before the vegetation was interfered with.
                            Installing a screen to protect vegetation planted by the local government to replace
                             vegetation interfered with by the person.
         (4)      Subsection (3) does not limit the court’s powers under the Penalties and
                  Sentences Act 1992 or another law.
         (5)      In this section, interfere, with vegetation, means to engage in any activity
                  damaging or leading to the death, disfigurement or mutilation of the vegetation,
                  and includes any of the following —
                  (a)       the poisoning (including by contamination) of the vegetation;
                  (b)       the spilling of oil, petroleum, paint, cement, mortar or other deleterious
                            substances onto the root zone of the vegetation;
                  (c)       the cutting or tearing of branches or roots of the vegetation other than in the
                            course of pruning permitted under this local law;
                  (d)       the ringbarking of the vegetation;
                  (e)       the scar barking of the vegetation;
                  (f)       the fixing of any object into living tissue, or surrounding bark, of the
                            vegetation;
                  (g)       the damaging of the root zone of the vegetation by compaction, excavation
                            or filling;
                  (h)       the uprooting or displacing of the vegetation;
                  (i)       the effecting of any hydrological scheme which causes the drainage or
                            flooding of the vegetation;
                  (j)       the burning, scorching, singeing, or damaging, by radiant heat, of the
                            vegetation.’.


This and the preceding 5 pages bearing my initials is a certified copy of Noosa Shire Council
Administration and Other Local Laws (Amendment) Local Law (No. 1) 2018 made in
accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act 2009 by Noosa Shire Council by
resolution dated the day of                 2018.


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Chief Executive Officer
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