2018-04-10 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   10 APRIL 2018




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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                        10 APRIL 2018

                                                     Noosa Shire Council
       |                    Administration and Other Local Laws (Amendment) Local Law (No. 1) 20422018      6

                          damage caused by a person’s interference with vegetation, including —
                              e  Revegetating the area at which the interference with the vegetation occurred to the same
                                 state as before the vegetation was interfered with.
                              e  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) 20178 made in
               accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act 2009 by Noosa Shire Council by
       |       resolution dated the  day of                20178.

               Chief Executive Officer

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