{"id":"wa-local:bunbury-city-of-parking-and-parking-facilities-local-law-2018","name":"Parking and Parking Facilities Local Law 2018","slug":"parking-and-parking-facilities-local-law-2018","collection":"local_law","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":437267,"registerId":"wa-local:bunbury-city-of-parking-and-parking-facilities-local-law-2018-pdf-1775954195671","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Sch 3","sectionType":"schedule","heading":"PRESCRIBED OFFENCES","content":"SCHEDULE 3—PRESCRIBED OFFENCES\n[Clause 6.2]\nItem No. Clause No. Nature of Offence Penalty Units\n1 2.1 Cat causing a nuisance 20\n2 2.2 Cat in prohibited area 20\n3 3.2 Failure of a person to hold a permit when required 20\n4 3.8 Breach of a condition of a permit 20\n————\n","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"Sch 4","sectionType":"schedule","heading":"CAT PROHIBITED AREAS","content":"SCHEDULE 4—CAT PROHIBITED AREAS\n[Clause 2.2]\nPlaces where cats are prohibited—\nCommon Name Physical Boundaries Description\nBig Swamp\nReserve\nPrince Phillip Drive and Tuart\nStreet\nWetlands and vegetation, including\nboardwalks, in the area contained within\nthe concrete footpath around the\nperimeter of the Big Swamp Reserve.\nMaidens Reserve\nOcean Drive, Maiden Park Road,\nNyabing Road, Lefroy Place,\nCostello Court, Dermer Place, and\nCollinsville Way\nEastern Boundary: all bushland along\nphysical boundaries and rear of residential\nproperties on these roads.\nNorthern extent: Car park on Ocean Drive\nat Hastie Street/Ocean Drive intersection.\nSouthern Extent: City Boundary adjacent\nto Water Corporation site.\nWestern Extent: High tide mark along\nbeach.\nManea Park\nBussell Highway, Somerville\nDrive, Peppermint Boulevard,\nMalaleuca Drive, Lakeside Drive,\nRobertson Drive, Halifax Drive,\nWorcestor Bend, South West\nHighway, Bunbury Airport, and\nCentenary Road\nAll bushland along physical boundaries\nand rear of residential and industrial\nproperties on these roads.\nHartley\nAnderson Park\nCrowea Street, Sturt Street,\nParkdale Avenue, Ocean Drive,\nKalari Rise, and Mindalong Close\nAll bushland along physical boundaries\nand rear of residential properties on these\nroads.\nHay Park Bussell Highway, Rotary Avenue,\nand Fire Brigade Running Track\nAll bushland within boundaries of the\nlisted roads.\nLoughton Park\nBrittain Road, Palmer Crescent,\nArmanta Drive, Young Close, and\nGodwin Street\nAll bushland along physical boundaries\nand rear of residential and industrial\nproperties on these roads.\nKatherine\nChauhan\nReserve\nParade Road, Westwood Street,\nSweeting Way, and Guile Fairway\nAll bushland along physical boundaries\nand rear of residential properties on these\nroads.\nBrother\nValentine Flynn\nReserve\nDunstan Street, Remilles Street,\nNile Place, Mangles Street,\nAshbank Green, Ione Street,\nMansfield Street, and West Road\nAll bushland along physical boundaries\nand rear of residential properties on these\nroads.\nIrwin Reserve\nIrwin Street, Macnish Close,\nSwansen Place, Sherry Place, and\nRoberts Crescent\nAll bushland along physical boundaries\nand rear of residential properties on these\nroads.\nHorseshoe Lake\nReserve\nSandridge Road, Bunning\nBoulevard, and Fairway Court\nAll bushland and parkland within\nboundaries of the listed roads.\nDodson Lake\nReserve\nDodson Road, Eades Street, South\nWestern Highway, and the\nRailway\nAll bushland and parkland within\nboundaries of the listed roads.\nCharterhouse\nReserve\nCharterhouse Close, Flynn Street,\nand Robertson Drive\nAll bushland and parkland within\nboundaries of the listed roads.\n————\nDated 11 December 2018.\nThe Common Seal of the City of Bunbury was affixed by authority of a resolution of the City in the\npresence of—\nGARY BRENNAN, Mayor.\nMAL OSBORNE, Chief Executive Officer.\n\n15 January 2019 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 75\nLOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995\nCITY OF BUNBURY\nPARKING AND PARKING FACILITIES LOCAL LAW 2018\nTable of Contents\nPART 1—PRELIMINARY\n1.1 Repeal\n1.2 Citation\n1.3 Commencement\n1.4 Definitions\nPART 2—ADMINISTRATION\n2.1 Application of particular definitions\n2.2 Undefined terms\n2.3 Delegation\n2.4 Determination of fees and charges\n2.5 Application of local law\n2.6 Sign erected by the Commissioner of Main Roads\n2.7 Application of signs\n2.8 Class of vehicles\nPART 3—STOPPING AND PARKING GENERALLY\n3.1 Power to prohibit and regulate\n3.2 Stopping or parking in accordance with signs\n3.3 Parking without consent\n3.4 Parking positions\n3.5 Angle parking\n3.6 Loading zone\n3.7 Parking or stopping on reserves\n3.8 Occupied parking bays\n3.9 Payment for parking\n3.10 Operation of ticket issuing machines and fee collection machines\n3.11 Alternative methods of payment for parking\n3.12 Set aside parking facilities\n3.13 Eating areas\n3.14 Urgent, essential or official duties\n3.15 Direction to move vehicle\n3.16 Selling or hiring in a parking facility\n3.17 Obstruction of a parking facility\n3.18 Behaviour in a parking facility\n3.19 Damage to parking facilities\n3.20 Removal and impounding of vehicles\nPART 4—STOPPING AND PARKING ON ROADS AND OTHER AREAS\n4.1 Stopping and parking on a carriageway\n4.2 Median strips and traffic islands\n4.3 Prohibited parking of vehicles\n4.4 Traffic obstructions\n4.5 Double parking\n4.6 Verge parking\n4.7 Parking near fire hydrant or post box\n4.8 Bus stops, pedestrian, children and train crossings\n4.9 No parking within 1 hour\n4.10 Public bus bays\n4.11 Charter bus bays\n\n76 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 January 2019\n4.12 Bus parking\n4.13 Construction site vehicle parking\n4.14 Stopping on a carriageway—heavy and long vehicles\nPART 5—METERED ZONES\n5.1 Fees in metered zones\n5.2 Parking position in metered space\n5.3 No parking within 1 hour\nPART 6—TICKET MACHINE ZONES\n6.1 Fees in ticket machine zones\n6.2 Display of parking tickets and parking limits\n6.3 Parking limits\n6.4 Parking position in ticket machine zones\nPART 7—PARKING STATIONS\n7.1 Fees in ticket machine zones\n7.2 Stopping or parking in a parking station\n7.3 No entrance ticket\n7.4 Removal of vehicles\n7.5 Maximum parking period in parking stations\n7.6 Parking restrictions for vehicles with multiple occupants\n7.7 Parking station closure\n7.8 Elected Member parking permit\nPART 8—RESIDENTIAL AND VISITOR PARKING PERMITS\n8.1 Interpretation\n8.2 Conditions of exemption for residential parking permits and visitors parking permits\n8.3 Issue of permits\n8.4 Issue of permits\n8.5 Restrictions on issue of permits to unit owners\n8.6 Restrictions on issue of permits to unit occupiers\n8.7 Restrictions on number of permits\n8.8 Validity of permits\n8.9 Revocation of parking permits\n8.10 Removal of residential or visitor parking permit from vehicle\n8.11 Fees for residential parking permit and visitor’s parking permits\nPART 9—MISCELLANEOUS\n9.1 Authorised person—certificate of appointment\n9.2 Authorised persons\n9.3 Necessary power\n9.4 Impersonating an authorised person\n9.5 Obstructing of an authorised person\n9.6 Removal of notices\n9.7 Display of signs\n9.8 Use of parking tickets\n9.9 Marking vehicles\n9.10 Exemption when complying with directions\n9.11 Sign presumed to have been established by the local government\n9.12 Power of an authorised person\n9.13 Special purpose and emergency vehicles\nPART 10—PARKING POLICY\n10.1 Policy\n10.2 Procedure for making a policy\n10.3 Register of the parking policy\n10.4 Amendment or revocation of the parking policy\nPART 11—OFFENCES AND PENALTIES\n11.1 Offences\n11.2 Infringement and infringement withdrawal notices\n11.3 Modified penalty\n11.4 Court proceedings\n11.5 Records\n11.6 Transitional provisions\nSCHEDULE 1—MODIFIED PENALTIES\nSCHEDULE 2—TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS\n\n15 January 2019 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 77\nLOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995\nCITY OF BUNBURY\nPARKING AND PARKING FACILITIES LOCAL LAW 2018\nUnder the powers conferred by the Local Government Act 1995 and by all other powers enabling it,\nthe Council of the City of Bunbury resolved on 11 December 2018 to make the following local law.\n","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"Part 1","sectionType":"part","heading":"PRELIMINARY","content":"PART 1—PRELIMINARY\n1.1 Repeal\nThe City of Bunbury Parking and Parking Facilities Local Law published in the Government Gazette\non 25 November 2005 is repealed.\n1.2 Citation\nThis local law may be cited as the City of Bunbury Parking and Parking Facilities Local Law 2018.\n1.3 Commencement\nThis local law comes into operation 14 days after the date of its publication in the Government\nGazette.\n1.4 Definitions\nIn this local law unless the context otherwise requires—\nAct means the Local Government Act 1995;\nAS means an Australian Standard as published by Standards Australia and amended from time\nto time;\nauthorised person means a person authorised by the local government under section 9.10 of the\nAct to perform any of the functions of an authorised person under this local law and where\nthe context requires, any member of the Western Australian Police Service;\nauthorised vehicle means a vehicle authorised by the local government, CEO or authorised\nperson, or by any written law, to stop or park in a parking facility;\nbicycle crossing means any portion of a carriageway near each end of which may be erected, on\neach side of the carriageway, bicycle crossing signs or lights;\nbicycle crossing lights means a device designed to show, at different times, a green, yellow or\nred bicycle crossing light;\nbus has the same meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\nbus embayment has the same meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\ncaravan means a vehicle that is fitted or designed to allow human habitation;\ncarriageway has the meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\ncentre has the same meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\nCEO means the Chief Executive Officer of the City of Bunbury;\ncharter bus means any bus which is used, hired or chartered for any purpose but does not\ninclude a public bus;\ncharter bus zone means a parking bay designated for use by a charter bus;\nCity means the City of Bunbury;\nclause means a clause of this local law;\ncommercial vehicle means a vehicle specifically designed, constructed and used primarily for\nthe conveyance therein or thereon of goods (not being a trailer or a vehicle to which a trailer\nis attached);\nCouncil means the council of the local government;\ndelivery vehicle means a motor vehicle on which a business name as defined in the Business\nNames Act 1962 or a trade mark as defined in the Trade Marks Act 1995 is permanently\naffixed and readily legible which is being used for the conveyance of goods therein or thereon;\n\n78 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 January 2019\ndisability parking permit has the meaning given to it in the Local Government (Parking for\nPeople with Disabilities) Regulations 2014;\ndisabled parking bay means a part of a parking facility which is identified or marked by\npainted lines, symbols, inscriptions or signs as a bay for the parking of vehicles driven by or\ncarrying a person with a disability;\ndistrict means the district of the local government;\ndriver means any person driving or in control of or in charge of a vehicle or any person driving,\nleading or in control of or in charge of any animal;\nedge line for a carriageway, means any line marked along the carriageway at or near the far left\nor far right side of the carriageway;\nemergency vehicle has the meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\nfootpath includes every footpath, lane or other place—\n(a) intended for the use of pedestrians only or, in the case of a dual use path, for the use of\npedestrians and bicyclists only; or\n(b) ordinarily used by pedestrians and not by vehicles or, in the case of a dual use path, by\npedestrians and bicyclists and not by vehicles other than bicycles;\nKeep Clear Area means a portion of a carriageway that lies—\n(a) between 2 consecutive signs inscribed with the words “KEEP CLEAR” and each with an\narrow pointing generally towards the other; or\n(b) between a sign inscribed with the words “KEEP CLEAR” and whichever of the following\nthat lies in the general direction indicated by an arrow inscribed on the sign—\n(i) the end of the carriageway; or\n(ii) an area in which stopping is prohibited; or\n(iii) the furthest point of “KEEP CLEAR” markings;\nkerb means any structure, mark, marking or device to delineate or indicate the edge of a\ncarriageway;\nloading zone means a parking bay or length of carriageway to which a loading zone sign applies\nand is designated for the use by commercial vehicles or delivery vehicles or an authorised\nvehicle for the purpose of delivering or collecting goods;\nlocal government means the City of Bunbury;\nmarked foot crossing has the meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\nmedian strip has the meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\nmetered space means a section or part of a metered zone that is controlled by a parking meter\nand that is marked or defined in any way to indicate where a vehicle may be parked on\npayment of a fee or charge;\nmetered zone means any road or reserve, or part of any road or reserve, in which parking meters\nregulate the stopping or parking of vehicles;\nmotor cycle means a motor vehicle designed to travel on two wheels but shall not include a\nmotor vehicle to which a sidecar is attached;\nmotor vehicle means a self-propelled vehicle that is not operated on rails, and the expression\nincludes a trailer, semi-trailer or caravan while attached to a motor vehicle, but does not\ninclude a power assisted pedal cycle or motor scooter;\nno parking area means a portion of carriageway that lies—\n(a) between two consecutive signs inscribed with the words or symbol denoting “No Parking”\nand each with an arrow pointing generally towards the other of them; or\n(b) between a sign, inscribed with the words or symbol denoting “No Parking” and a dead\nend or an area in which standing is prohibited and that lies in the general direction\nindicated by an arrow inscribed on the sign;\nno stopping area means a portion of a carriageway that lies—\n(a) between 2 consecutive signs inscribed with the symbol denoting “No Stopping” and each\nwith an arrow pointing generally towards the other; or\n(b) between a sign inscribed with the symbol denoting “No Stopping” and whichever of the\nfollowing that lies in the general direction indicated by an arrow inscribed on the sign—\n(i) the end of the carriageway; or\n(ii) an area in which stopping is prohibited; or\n(c) adjacent to a continuous yellow edge line;\nobstruct means to interfere with, impede or hinder the passage of any vehicle or person;\noccupier has the meaning given to it in the Act;\nowner—\n(a) where used in relation to a vehicle licensed under the Road Traffic Act, means the person\nin whose name the vehicle has been registered under that Road Traffic Act;\n(b) where used in relation to any other vehicle, means the person who owns the vehicle or\nwho is in possession of the vehicle or is entitled to possession of the vehicle; and\n(c) where used in relation to land, has the meaning give to it by the Act;\n\n15 January 2019 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 79\npark has the meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\nparking area means a portion of a carriageway—\n(a) between two consecutive signs, inscribed with the words “Parking”, each with an arrow\npointing generally towards the other of them;\n(b) extending, from a sign inscribed with the word, “Parking” in the general direction\nindicated by an arrow inscribed on the sign, to any other sign inscribed with the words\n“No Parking” or “No Standing or to a dead end or an area in which the parking or\nstanding of vehicles is prohibited and is in that half of the carriageway nearest to the\nsign;\nparking bay means a section or part of a parking facility, road, reserve or parking station that is\nmarked or defined by painted lines or similar devices for the purpose of indicating where a\nvehicle may stop or park with or without payment of a fee;\nparking facility—\n(a) includes land, buildings, shelters, signs, notices and other facilities open to the public\ngenerally for the parking of vehicles with or without charge; and\n(b) includes a road, reserve, parking area, metered zone, ticket machine zone, truck zone,\nwork zone, taxi zone, bus zone, charter bus zone, public bus zone, bicycle zone, parking\nbay, parking station, attended parking station and any other facility available to the\npublic generally or a specified class of persons or a specified class of vehicle for the\nparking of a vehicle, whether or not a fee is charged;\nparking policy means a policy adopted by the Council under Part 10;\nparking region means the whole of the district of the local government of the City of Bunbury\nexcluding the following portions of the district—\n(a) any road proclaimed to be a main road under provisions of the Main Roads Act 1930;\n(b) the approach and departure prohibition areas of all traffic signal installations; and\n(c) prohibition areas applicable to all bridges and subways;\nparking station means any land, building or other structure providing for the purpose of\naccommodating vehicles with or without charge, but does not include a metered zone or\nmetered stall or private garage;\nparking ticket means a ticket which is issued from a ticket issuing machine and which\nauthorises the parking of a vehicle;\nparking permit means a card, permit or voucher which is purchased from the local government\nand which authorises the parking of a vehicle in a parking stall, parking station or part of a\nparking station;\npedestrian has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\npedestrian crossing has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\npedestrian mall has the meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\npenalty unit has the meaning given in the City of Bunbury Penalty Units Local Law 2018;\nperson includes a propriety limited company or association;\nproperly displayed means displayed inside a vehicle on the dashboard and clearly visible to and\nable to be read from outside the vehicle through the windscreen or either front window by an\nauthorised person at all times while the vehicle remains parked;\nproperty line means the lateral boundary of a road;\npublic bus means any bus available to the general public in the course of general transport\nservices but does not include a charter bus;\npublic bus zone means a parking bay designated for use by a public bus;\nreserve includes any land—\n(a) owned by the local government;\n(b) of which the local government is the management body under the Land Administration\nAct 1997; or\n(c) which is an “otherwise unvested facility” in terms of section 3.53 of the Act;\nroad includes a highway, road, lane, thoroughfare, carriageway or similar place, or part thereof,\nwhich is within the parking region of the local government, which the public are allowed to\nuse and includes every part of the highway, lane, thoroughfare or similar place and other\nthings including bridges and culverts appurtenant thereto and includes all of the land lying\nbetween the property lines including the road verge and footpath;\nroad verge means a portion of a road which lies between the boundary of a carriageway and the\nproperty line adjacent thereto, and includes any park or reserve or any other land proclaimed\nby the local government for any purpose whatsoever and also includes the term “nature strip”\nand also includes any crossover, but does not include the footpath;\nSchedule means a Schedule to this local law;\nservice vehicle has the same meaning as given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\nshared zone means the network of roads in an area with—\n(a) “shared zone” signage on each road into the area; and\n(b) an “end shared zone” sign on each road out of the area;\n\n80 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 January 2019\nsign includes a traffic sign, permissive parking sign, inscription, mark, painted line, structure or\ndevice approved by the local government on which may be shown words, numbers,\nexpressions or symbols, and which is placed or erected on or near a road, reserve or parking\nstation for the purpose of prohibiting, regulating, guiding, directing or regulating the\nstopping or parking of vehicles and any sign bearing a reasonable likeness of any\nrepresentation of a traffic sign or permissive parking sign contained within the Road Traffic\nCode 2000;\nstop has the meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\nstreet has the same meaning as road;\nsymbol includes any symbol specified by the Road Traffic Code 2000;\ntaxi has the meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\nticket issuing machine means any equipment, installed from time to time by the local\ngovernment, at any place, which upon the placing therein of a prescribed coin, coins, or a\ntoken, pass, card, key or device issues a ticket indicating the period of parking permitted;\nticket machine zone means a parking facility in which a ticket issuing machine is installed;\nthoroughfare has the meaning given to it in the Act;\nT-Intersection means an intersection where the end of a road intersects with the continuous side\nof a continuing road;\ntraffic island means any physical provision, other than lines marked on a carriageway, to guide\nvehicular traffic;\ntrailer means any vehicle without motor power of its own, designed for attachment to a motor\nvehicle for the purpose of being towed, but does not include the rear portion of an articulated\nvehicle or a side car;\ntruck has the meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Code 2000;\ntruck bay means a parking bay designated for use by trucks only;\nunattended means the driver has left the vehicle so that the driver is more than 3 metres from\nthe closest point of the vehicle;\nunexpired parking ticket means a parking ticket on which a date and expiry time is printed\nand that time has not expired; and\nvehicle includes—\n(a) every conveyance, not being a train, vessel or aircraft, and every object capable of being\npropelled or drawn on wheels or tracks, by any means; and\n(b) where the context permits, an animal being driven or ridden.\n","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"Part 2","sectionType":"part","heading":"ADMINISTRATION","content":"PART 2—ADMINISTRATION\n2.1 Application of particular definitions\n(1) For the purposes of the application of the definitions of “no parking area”, “no stopping area” and\n“parking area”, an arrow inscribed on a traffic sign erected at an angle to the boundary of the\ncarriageway is taken to be pointing in the general direction in which it would point if the signs were\nviewed from the centre of the road, perpendicular to the sign post.\n(2) A reference to a word or expression inscribed on a sign includes a reference to a symbol depicting\nthat word or expression.\n(3) A reference to a parking station or metered zone includes a reference to part of the parking station\nor part of the metered zone.\n2.2 Undefined terms\nWhere a term is used but is not defined in the Act or in this local law and that term is defined in the\nRoad Traffic Act 1974 or the Road Traffic Code 2000 then, unless the context otherwise requires, the\nterm is to have the meaning given to it in the Road Traffic Act 1974 or the Road Traffic Code 2000.\n2.3 Delegation\n(1) In this local law a reference to the local government having the power to do something in its\ndiscretion, and whether or not subject to any condition it thinks fit, shall be deemed to include a\nreference to the CEO and a committee to which the local government has delegated the power of\ndoing the thing or exercising the discretion.\n(2) In this local law a reference to the local government having power to do something in its\ndiscretion, shall be deemed to include a reference to any employee of the local government to whom\nthe CEO has delegated to exercise any of the CEO’s powers or the discharge of any of the CEO’s\nduties in relation to this local law.\n2.4 Determination of fees and charges\nIn this local law any fees and charges shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the local\ngovernment in accordance with the provisions of the Act.\n2.5 Application of local law\n(1) This local law applies to the parking region and all parking stations and parking facilities in the\nparking region and include a parking facility or parking station that—\n(a) is owned, controlled or occupied by the local government; or\n\n15 January 2019 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 81\n(b) is owned by the local government but is leased to another person, persons or company; or\n(c) is owned or occupied by another person, persons or company whom have a current agreement\nwith the local government to enforce these local laws.\n2.6 Sign erected by the Commissioner of Main Roads\n(1) Any sign that—\n(a) was erected by the Commissioner of Main Roads prior to the coming into operation of this\nlocal law; and\n(b) relates to the restriction, parking or standing of vehicles,\nshall be deemed, for the purposes of this local law, to have been erected by the local government\nunder the authority of this local law.\n2.7 Application of signs\n(1) This local law applies to the stopping or parking of vehicles within the district which is controlled\nby a sign. Such sign shall be read as applying to that part of the road or road verge which—\n(a) lies beyond the sign; or\n(b) lies between the sign and the next sign beyond that sign; and\n(c) is that half or side of the carriageway of the road or road verge nearest to the sign.\n(2) For the purposes of this local law a sign may, by the use of any symbol or other traffic control\ndevice specified in accordance with AS 1745.11—\n(a) prohibit or regulate parking and stopping; or\n(b) specify maximum times; or\n(c) specify permitted classes of vehicles.\n2.8 Class of vehicles\n(1) For the purpose of this local law vehicles are divided into classes as follows—\n(a) buses;\n(b) commercial vehicles;\n(c) motor cycles;\n(d) bicycles;\n(e) taxis; and\n(f) all other vehicles not otherwise classified, which includes motor cycles with sidecars attached.\nPART 3—STOPPING AND PARKING GENERALLY\n3.1 Power to prohibit and regulate\n(1) The local government may prohibit or regulate by signs or otherwise the stopping and parking of\nany vehicle or class of person and vehicle, or both, but is to do so consistently with the provisions of\nthis local law.\n(2) The local government may establish, determine, vary and indicate by signs—\n(a) parking facilities; or\n(b) permitted times and conditions of stopping and parking which may vary with the locality; or\n(c) permitted persons who may stop or park their vehicles; or\n(d) permitted classes of vehicles which may stop or park; and\n(e) the manner of stopping or parking.\n(3) Where the local government makes a determination under this clause it shall erect signs to give\neffect to the determination.\n3.2 Stopping or parking in accordance with signs\n(1) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in a parking facility—\n(a) if by a sign it is set apart for the stopping or parking of vehicles of a different class; or\n(b) if by a sign it is set apart for the stopping or parking of vehicles by persons of a different\nclass; or\n(c) during any period when the stopping or parking of vehicles is prohibited by a sign—\n(i) other than wholly within a parking bay or metered space; or\n(ii) if a vehicle is too wide or long to fit completely within a single parking bay, the person\nstopping the vehicle shall park with the vehicle within the minimum number of\nparking bays needed to park that vehicle; or\n(d) otherwise than in accordance with a sign applying to the place where the vehicle is stopping\nor parked.\n(2) A person must not stop or park a vehicle—\n(a) in a no stopping area; or\n(b) in a parking area, except in accordance with the signs referable to the parking area and this\nlocal law; or\n\n82 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 January 2019\n(c) partly within and partly outside a parking area; or\n(d) in a bay marked ‘M/C’ unless it is a motorcycle without a sidecar; or\n(e) in a bus lane; or\n(f) in a transit lane; or\n(g) in a truck lane; or\n(h) in a bicycle lane,\nunless the person is driving a public bus or taxi and is immediately dropping off, or picking up\npassengers.\n(3) A person must not park a vehicle in a no parking area.\n(4) A person must not stop a vehicle at the side of a carriageway marked with a continuous yellow\nedged line.\n(5) A person must not stop or park a vehicle on or in an area of a carriageway signed or marked as a\nkeep clear area.\n(6) A person must not stop a motorcycle without a side-car in a parking bay or metered space unless—\n(a) the bay or space is marked ‘M/C’; or\n(b) a sign applying to the bay or space is inscribed ‘M/C’.\n(7) If there is no sign referable to a parking bay or metered space marked ‘M/C’ a person must not\nstop or park a vehicle longer than the maximum period shown on the parking sign applicable to that\nparking bay or metered space.\n(8) Unless authorised by the local government, a person must not stop or park a vehicle in an area\ndesignated by a sign inscribed “Authorised Vehicles Only”.\n(9) Unless authorised by the local government, a person must not stop or park a vehicle in a parking\narea for longer than the time period indicated by a sign, unless—\n(a) clause 3.16 applies; or\n(b) if the vehicle displays a disability parking permit, the vehicle may park continuously for twice\nthe period indicated on a sign, except in a parking area set aside for people with disabilities.\n(10) A person must not park a vehicle in a parking facility, carriageway or verge within an area\ndesignated as road closed without the permission of an authorised person.\n3.3 Parking without consent\n(1) A person must not stop or park a vehicle on land without the consent of the owner or occupier of\nthe land on which the vehicle is stopped or parked.\n(2) Where the owner or occupier of the land, by a sign referable to that land or otherwise, consents to\nthe stopping or parking of vehicles on the land, a person must not stop or park on the land other than\nin accordance with the consent given.\n3.4 Parking positions\n(1) Where the signs referable to a parking area are not inscribed with the words “angle parking” then\nunless a sign referable to the parking area indicates, or marks on the carriageway indicate, that\nvehicles have to park in a different position—\n(a) where the parking area is adjacent to the boundary of a carriageway, a person stopping or\nparking a vehicle in the parking area must stop or park it as near as practicable to and\nparallel with that boundary; and\n(b) where the parking area is at or near the centre of the carriageway, a person stopping or\nparking a vehicle in that parking area must stop or park it at approximately right angles to\nthe centre of the carriageway.\n(2) A person must park or stop a vehicle wholly within the painted lines on the road surface where\nlines are marked.\n3.5 Angle parking\n(1) Where a sign referable to a parking area is inscribed with the words “angle parking” a person\nstopping or parking a vehicle in the area must stop or park the vehicle at an angle of approximately\n45 degrees to the centre of the carriageway unless otherwise indicated by the inscription on the sign\nor by marks on the carriageway.\n(2) Where a sign referable to a parking area is inscribed with the words “angle parking” a person\nstopping or parking a vehicle in the area must stop or park the vehicle in such a manner that the\nfront of the vehicle is closest to the kerb or side of the road, in the same direction as the adjacent\ntraffic lane, unless otherwise instructed on adjacent signage.\n3.6 Loading zone\n(1) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in a loading zone unless—\n(a) the vehicle is a commercial vehicle or delivery vehicle or a vehicle authorised by permit that\nis current and prominently displayed; and\n(b) a person is continuously engaged in loading or unloading goods to or from that vehicle.\n(2) A person must not stop or park a commercial vehicle or a delivery vehicle or an authorised vehicle\nin a loading zone for longer than shown on adjacent signage, and if no time is shown on adjacent\nsignage, a limit of 20 minutes shall apply.\n\n15 January 2019 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 83\n3.7 Parking or stopping on reserves\n(1) A person, other than an employee of the local government in the course of his or her duties or a\nperson authorised by the local government, must not drive, stop or park a vehicle on or over any\nportion of a reserve other than an area specifically set aside for that purpose.\n(2) Unless authorised by the local government, a person—\n(a) must not, for the purposes of conducting a business, stop or park a vehicle on any part of a\nreserve; or\n(b) must not stop or park a vehicle or part of a vehicle on or over any footpath constructed across\na reserve.\n3.8 Occupied parking bays\nA person must not stop or park or attempt to stop or park a vehicle in a parking bay or metered space\nin which another vehicle is stopping or parked.\n3.9 Payment for parking\nA person must not insert into a ticket issuing machine, fee collection machine or parking meter\nanything other than the designations of coin or banknote or other permitted form of payment\nindicated by a sign on the ticket issuing machine, fee collection machine or parking meter and only in\naccordance with the instructions printed on the ticket issuing machine, fee collection machine or\nparking meter.\n3.10 Operation of ticket issuing machines and fee collection machines\nA person must not operate a ticket issuing machine, fee collection machine or parking meter except in\naccordance with the operating instructions appearing on the ticket issuing machine, fee collection\nmachine or parking meter.\n3.11 Alternative methods of payment for parking\n(1) The local government may allow a person to pay for parking in advance or in arrears by issuing,\nfor example, a permit, card, invoice, ticket or pass or any other system of payment that may be\ndetermined by the local government from time to time and referred to in this clause as “alternative\nmethods of payment”.\n(2) A person who has been permitted by the local government to make alternative methods of\npayment for parking is exempt from paying fees at the parking station providing that he or she\ncomplies with the terms of the alternative method of payment including displaying the current\napproved permit (where applicable) so that the extent of the permit is fully visible from the outside of\nthe vehicle.\n(3) An alternative method of payment may not be used by any person other than the person who\nreceived authorisation from the local government or from an agent or representative authorised by\nthe local government.\n3.12 Set aside parking facilities\n(1) Where a parking facility has been set aside under clauses 3.1(2)(c) or (d) the local government—\n(a) may issue a written permit to the relevant person or vehicles of the class; and\n(b) may vary or revoke a permit at any time.\n(2) Except with the permission of an authorised person, a person must not stop or park a vehicle in a\nparking facility set aside under subclause (1) unless—\n(a) the permit is properly displayed;\n(b) the permit bears a valid date; and\n(c) the person or the class of vehicle as specified in the permit is specified on the sign which sign\nsets aside a part or all the parking facility.\n3.13 Eating areas\nA person must not stop in a parking bay or metered space that has been established for a purpose\nother than the parking of vehicle.\n3.14 Urgent, essential or official duties\n(1) Where by a sign the stopping or parking of vehicles is prohibited or permitted for a limited time in\na parking facility, the local government may permit a person to stop or park a vehicle, belonging to a\nauthorised service authority and/or their approved agent, in a parking facility although not otherwise\npermitted or for longer than the permitted time so that the person may carry out urgent, essential or\nofficial duties.\n(2) Where authorisation is given under subclause (1) the local government may prohibit, for the\nduration of that authorisation, the use by any other vehicle of that portion of the parking facility to\nwhich the authorisation relates.\n(3) A permit issued under subclause (1) may—\n(a) authorise the stopping or parking of the vehicle continuously for a specified period or periods\nor between specified times or from time to time during a specified period; and\n(b) be revoked or suspended at any time by the local government before the expiration of any\ntime or period specified in the permit without responsibility for any liability for loss or claim.\n\n84 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 January 2019\n(4) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in respect of which a permit has been issued under\nsubclause (1)—\n(a) except at the times or during the period specified in the permit;\n(b) for any purpose other than the purpose specified in the permit; or\n(c) at any time after the cancellation, revocation or suspension of the permit.\n3.15 Direction to move vehicle\nA person must not stop or park a vehicle after being directed by an authorised person or a police\nofficer to move the vehicle.\n3.16 Selling or hiring in a parking facility\nA person must not sell, bail, hire or give away any goods or thing or erect an advertisement in a\nparking facility or parking bay without the written authorisation of the local government.\n3.17 Obstruction of a parking facility\nA person must not stop or park a vehicle in a parking facility so as to obstruct any entrance, exit,\ncarriageway, passage or thoroughfare of the parking facility without the written authorisation of the\nlocal government or the approval of the facility owner.\n3.18 Behaviour in a parking facility\n(1) A person must not remain in a parking facility after having been directed to leave by an\nauthorised person or a police officer.\n(2) A person must not loiter in a parking facility.\n3.19 Damage to parking facilities\n(1) A person must not remove, damage, deface, misuse or interfere with any part of a parking facility.\n(2) A person shall not remove, damage, deface, misuse or interfere with any parking meter, ticket\nissuing machine, or pay station, or cause, attempt, suffer, permit or allow any such act.\n3.20 Removal and impounding of vehicles\n(1) The powers of the local government to remove and impound goods including vehicles are set out in\n","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"Part 3","sectionType":"part","heading":"Division 3 Subdivision 4 of the Act.","content":"Part 3 Division 3 Subdivision 4 of the Act.\n(2) Any offence against any provision of this local law is prescribed to be a contravention that can lead\nto impounding for the purposes of section 3.37 of the Act.\n(3) An authorised person may remove and impound any vehicle that is involved in a contravention\nthat can lead to impounding in accordance with section 3.39 of the Act and this clause.\n(4) An authorised person may use reasonable force to exercise the power given by subclause (3).\n(5) The form of the notice referred to in section 3.42 of the Act shall be in the form as determined by\nthe local government from time to time.\n(6) A person is not entitled to make any claim, by way of damages or otherwise, against the\nauthorised person or the local government in respect of a vehicle removed and impounded under the\nprovisions of this local law, or against any person who purchases a vehicle disposed of by the local\ngovernment under the provisions of the Act.\n3.21 Council resolution\nThe Council may by resolution declare that particular clauses do not apply during the periods and\ndays specified in the resolution.\n","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"Part 4","sectionType":"part","heading":"STOPPING AND PARKING ON ROADS AND OTHER AREAS","content":"PART 4—STOPPING AND PARKING ON ROADS AND OTHER AREAS\n4.1 Stopping and parking on a carriageway\n(1) Subject to clause 3.2, a person stopping or parking a vehicle on a carriageway must stop or park\nthe vehicle—\n(a) in the case of a two-way carriageway, so that it is as near as practicable to and parallel with,\nthe left boundary of the carriageway and headed in the direction of the movement of traffic on\nthe side of the road on which the vehicle is stopping or parked; or\n(b) in the case of a one-way carriageway, so that it is as near as practicable to and parallel with\neither boundary of the carriageway and headed in the direction of the movement of traffic on\nthe side of the road on which the vehicle is stopping or parked; or\n(c) so that at least 3 metres of the width of the carriageway lies between the vehicle and the\nopposite boundary of the carriageway, or between the vehicle and a vehicle stopping or\nparked on the opposite side of the carriageway; or\n(d) so that it is more than 1.2 metres from any other vehicle, except a motorcycle without a\ntrailer stopping or parked in accordance with this local law; and\n(e) headed in the direction of the movement of traffic on the side of the road on which the vehicle\nis stopping or parked.\n4.2 Median strips and traffic islands\n(1) A person must not stop or park a vehicle on any part of a road so that any portion of the vehicle\nis—\n(a) on a median strip; or\n(b) adjacent to a median strip other than in a parking bay or metered space.\n\n15 January 2019 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 85\n4.3 Prohibited parking of vehicles\n(1) A person must not park a vehicle on any portion of a road—\n(a) if that vehicle is not licensed under the Road Traffic Act or any corresponding law of another\nState or Territory or of the Commonwealth; or\n(b) if that vehicle is a trailer or caravan unattached to a motor vehicle; or\n(c) for the purpose of effecting repairs to it, other than the minimum repairs necessary to enable\nthe vehicle to be moved to a place other than a road.\n(2) A person may advertise a vehicle for sale on a road only when—\n(a) the vehicle is located on the verge of the vehicle owners residence and does not obstruct any\nvehicles or pedestrians passing the vehicle for sale; or\n(b) the vehicle is within a parking facility for a period not exceeding 12 continuous hours; and\n(c) the vehicle is parked in accordance with all parking signs and local laws of that location; and\n(d) the advertisement does not exceed one (1) A4 size piece of paper (297mm x 210mm) per side\nof the vehicle; and\n(e) the advertisement is not displayed on the front windscreen.\n4.4 Traffic obstructions\n(1) This clause does not apply to—\n(a) a vehicle stopping or parked in a parking bay or metered space established by the local\ngovernment; or\n(b) a bicycle in a bicycle rack established by the local government.\n(2) Subclauses (3)(b) and (3)(d) do not apply to a vehicle stopping or parked in a bus embayment.\n(3) A person must not stop or park a vehicle so that any portion of the vehicle is—\n(a) on any road so as to cause an obstruction on the road unless it is a public bus stopping next to\na sign inscribed with the words “Bus Zone”; or\n(b) obstructing a thoroughfare or so close as to deny vehicles reasonable access to or egress\nfrom—\n(i) a driveway to a private residential or business property; or\n(ii) an access road to a private or public carpark; or\n(iii) any gate or access point to parks and reserves; or\n(c) on an intersection except adjacent to a carriageway boundary that is not broken by an\nintersecting carriageway; or\n(d) on a carriageway within 20 metres from the nearest point of an intersecting carriageway at\nan intersection with traffic-control signals, unless the vehicle stops or parks at a place on a\nlength of carriageway, or in an area, to which a parking control sign applies and the vehicle is\npermitted to stop or park at that place in accordance with this local law; or\n(e) on a carriageway so that any portion of the vehicle is within 10 metres of the prolongation of\nthe nearer edge of any intersecting carriageway (without traffic-control signals) intersecting\nthat carriageway on the side on which the vehicle is stopped or parked unless the vehicle\nstops or parks—\n(i) at a place on a carriageway, or in an area, to which a parking control sign applies and\nthe vehicle is permitted to stop or park at that place under this local law; or\n(ii) if the intersection is a T-intersection along the continuous side of the continuing road at\nthe intersection; or\n(f) alongside or opposite any excavation, work, hoarding, scaffolding or obstruction on the\ncarriageway, if the vehicle would obstruct traffic; or\n(g) on or over a footpath, pedestrian crossing, children’s crossing or a place for pedestrians; or\n(h) on a bridge or other elevated structure or within a tunnel or underpass; or\n(i) between the boundaries of a carriageway and any double longitudinal line consisting of\n2 continuous lines or between a double longitudinal line consisting of a continuous line and a\nbroken or dotted line and the boundary of a carriageway nearer to the continuous line, unless\nthere is a distance of at least 3 metres clear between the vehicle and the double longitudinal\nline.\n4.5 Double parking\n(1) A person shall not stop a vehicle so that any portion of the vehicle is between any other stopped\nvehicle and the centre of the carriageway.\n(2) Subclause (1) does not apply to—\n(a) a person stopped in traffic; or\n(b) a person angle parked on the side of the carriageway or in a median strip parking area, in\naccordance with this local law.\n4.6 Verge parking\n(1) A person must not—\n(a) stop or park a bus or trailer or caravan unattached to a motor vehicle, so that any portion of it\nis on a road verge; or\n\n86 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 January 2019\n(b) stop or park a vehicle so that any portion of the vehicle is on a road verge during any period\nwhen the stopping or parking vehicles on the road verge is prohibited by a sign adjacent and\nreferable to that road verge; or\n(c) stop or park a vehicle on a road verge in a manner that obstructs pedestrians; or\n(d) stop or park a vehicle on a verge for a period of time or in a manner that causes damage to\nthat verge.\n(2) Subject to subclause (1) a person must not stop or park a vehicle if any portion of the vehicle is on\nthe road verge unless he or she—\n(a) is the owner or occupier of the premises adjacent to that road verge; or\n(b) is a person authorised by the occupier of those premises to do so.\n4.7 Parking near fire hydrant or post box\n(1) A person must not stop or park a vehicle on a road so that any portion of the vehicle is—\n(a) within 1 metre of a fire hydrant, fire plug, or any sign or mark indicating the existence of a\nfire hydrant or fire plug unless—\n(i) the driver is driving a public bus, and the driver stops in a bus zone or a at a bus stop\nand does not leave the bus unattended; or\n(ii) the driver is driving taxi, and the driver stops in a taxi zone and does not leave the taxi\nunattended; or\n(b) within 3 metres of a public post box, unless the vehicle—\n(i) is being used for the purpose of dropping off or picking up passengers or collecting\npostal articles from the post box; or\n(ii) stops at a place on a length of carriageway, or in an area, to which a parking control\nsign applies and the vehicle is permitted to stop or park at that place under this local\nlaw.\n4.8 Bus stops, pedestrian, children and train crossings\n(1) Subject to subclause (4), a person must not stop or park a vehicle on a level crossing or on a\ncarriageway so that any portion of the vehicle is within 20 metres of the approach side or within 20\nmetres of the departure side of the nearest rail of a railway level crossing.\n(2) Subject to subclause (4), a person must not stop or park a vehicle so that any portion of the vehicle\nis within 20 metres of the approach side or within 10 metres of the departure side, of—\n(a) a bus embayment or a sign inscribed with the words “Bus Zone” unless the vehicle is a bus\nstopped to take up or set down passengers; or\n(b) a pedestrian crossing; or\n(c) a children’s crossing.\n(3) Subject to subclause (4), a person must not stop a vehicle so that any portion of the vehicle is\nwithin 10 metres of the approach side or within 3 metres of the departure side of—\n(a) a marked foot crossing, that is not at an intersection; or\n(b) a bicycle crossing equipped with bicycle crossing lights, that is not at an intersection.\n(4) Subclauses (1), (2) or (3) do not apply if—\n(a) the vehicle is stopping or parked in a marked bay to which a parking sign applies; or\n(b) the driver of the vehicle is prevented from proceeding by circumstances beyond his or her\ncontrol; or\n(c) it is necessary for the driver of the vehicle to stop to avoid an accident.\n4.9 No parking within 1 hour\n(1) Where stopping or parking on a road is permitted for a limited time, a person must not move a\nvehicle within that section of road so that the total time of parking exceeds the maximum time\npermitted, unless—\n(a) the vehicle has first been removed from that road for at least 1 hour; or\n(b) there is between the place where the vehicle had been parked and the place where the vehicle\nis subsequently parked, another road that meets or intersects that road.\n4.10 Public bus bays\nA person must not stop or park a vehicle other than a public bus in a parking bay set aside for use by\na public bus.\n4.11 Charter bus bays\nA person must not stop or park a vehicle other than a charter bus in a parking bay set aside for use by\na charter bus.\n4.12 Bus parking\n(1) Unless otherwise stated on a sign—\n(a) a public bus must not stop or park in a bus embayment unless actively engaged in picking up\nor setting down passengers; and\n(b) a charter bus must not stop or park in a bus embayment, other than a layover bay, except to\npick up or set down passengers and, in any event, for no more than 20 minutes.\n\n15 January 2019 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 87\n4.13 Construction site vehicle parking\n(1) In this clause unless the context otherwise requires—\n“builder” has the meaning given to it in the Building Regulations 1989;\n“construction site” means any land subject to development;\n“construction site vehicle” means a commercial vehicle or a heavy goods vehicle;\n“daily fee” means the daily fee set by local government from time to time in accordance with the\nprovisions of the Act determined by Council;\n“development” means the demolition, erection, construction, alteration of or addition to any\nbuilding or structure on land or the carrying out on land of any excavation or other works;\n“eligible person” means an owner or occupier of a construction site or any builder carrying out\nwork on a construction site;\n“establishment fee” means those fees set by local government from time to time in accordance\nwith the provisions of the Act;\n“heavy goods vehicle” means a vehicle which is defined in the First Schedule of the Road\nTraffic Act 1974 as a tractor (prime mover type) or a tractor (other than prime mover type)\nand includes any other vehicle constructed primarily for the conveyance of goods which is\nattached to a heavy goods vehicle;\n“work zone” means any road or part of a road, whether or not marked as a metered space,\nparking bay or ticket machine zone, which is set aside by the local government by the use of a\nsign, for a period specified on the sign, for the stopping or parking of construction site\nvehicles.\n(2) An eligible person seeking to establish a work zone adjacent to a construction site may apply in\nwriting to the local government, which may approve or refuse the application.\n(3) Where the local government approves an application, it is to give the applicant written notice\nspecifying—\n(a) the number and location of work zones the applicant may use;\n(b) the period during which the stopping or parking of construction site vehicles is permitted in\nthe work zone; and\n(c) the amount of the establishment fee.\n(4) The local government is to set aside a work zone in accordance with the notice referred to in\nsubclause (3) within 14 days from the date of payment of the establishment fee.\n(5) An eligible person must, in addition to the establishment fee, pay to the local government a daily\nfee for each day that a work zone is set aside.\n(6) The daily fee is payable monthly in advance.\n(7) If the daily fee is at any time in arrears (whether or not any formal or legal demand is made), the\nlocal government may remove any signs used to set aside the work zone.\n(8) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in a work zone unless—\n(a) the vehicle is a construction site vehicle; or\n(b) the vehicle is stopping or parked during a period in which the stopping or parking of a\nconstruction site vehicle in that zone is permitted by a sign; and\n(c) a person is continuously engaged in loading or unloading goods—\n(i) to or from the construction site vehicle; or\n(ii) to or from the construction site.\n(9) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in a shared zone unless the vehicle—\n(a) stops at a place on a length of carriageway, or in an area, to which a parking control sign\napplies and the vehicle is permitted to stop at that place under this local law; or\n(b) stops in a parking bay and the vehicle is permitted to stop in the parking bay under this local\nlaw; or\n(c) the vehicle is dropping off, or picking up, passengers or goods; or\n(d) the vehicle is engaged in the door-to-door delivery or collection of goods, or in the collection of\nwaste or garbage.\n4.14 Stopping on a carriageway—heavy and long vehicles\n(1) A person shall not park a vehicle or any combination of vehicles that, together with any projection\non, or load carried by, the vehicle or combination of vehicles, is more than 7.5 metres in length or\nexceeds a GVM of 4.5 tonnes—\n(a) on a carriageway in a built-up area, for any period exceeding one hour, unless engaged in the\npicking up or setting down of goods; or\n(b) on a carriageway outside a built-up area, except on the shoulder of the carriageway, or in a\ntruck bay or other area set aside for the parking of goods vehicles.\n(2) Nothing in this clause mitigates the limitations or conditions imposed by any other regulation or\ntraffic sign relating to the parking or stopping of vehicles.\n\n88 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 January 2019\n","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"Part 5","sectionType":"part","heading":"METERED ZONES","content":"PART 5—METERED ZONES\n5.1 Fees in metered zones\n(1) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in a metered space unless the appropriate fee as\nindicated by a sign on the parking meter referable to the space is inserted into the parking meter.\n(2) The payment of the fee referred to in subclause (1) entitles a person to stop or park a vehicle in a\nmetered space for the period shown on a sign referable to the space, but does not authorise the\nparking of the vehicle during any time when stopping or parking in that space is prohibited under\nthis local law or the sign on the parking meter referable to the metered space.\n(3) Unless authorised by the local government, a person must not leave or permit a vehicle to remain\nstopping or parked in a metered space—\n(a) during the hours when a fee is payable to stop or park a vehicle in the space when the\nparking meter referable to that space exhibits the sign ‘Expired’, a negative time or a series of\nred flashing lights; or\n(b) for longer than the maximum period stated on the sign referable to that space during which\ncontinuous stopping or parking is permitted; or\n(c) if the parking meter is hooded with a covering bearing the words “No Parking”, “Reserved\nParking”, “Temporary Bus Stop” or with an equivalent symbol depicting one of these\npurposes.\n5.2 Parking position in metered space\n(1) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in a metered space other than—\n(a) parallel to the kerb; and\n(b) as close to the kerb as practicable; and\n(c) wholly within the metered space; and\n(d) headed in the direction of the movement of traffic on the part of the road on which the space\nis situated.\n(2) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in a metered space which is not parallel to a kerb other\nthan wholly within the metered space.\n5.3 No parking within 1 hour\nA person who removes a vehicle from a metered zone must not stop or park that vehicle in that\nmetered zone for at least 1 hour after the removal.\n","sortOrder":6},{"sectionNumber":"Part 6","sectionType":"part","heading":"TICKET MACHINE ZONES","content":"PART 6—TICKET MACHINE ZONES\n6.1 Fees in ticket machine zones\n(1) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in a ticket machine zone unless the appropriate fee as\nindicated by a sign on the ticket issuing machine referable to the zone is inserted into the ticket\nissuing machine.\n(2) The payment of the fee referred to in subclause (1) entitles a person to stop or park a vehicle in a\nticket machine zone for the period shown on the parking ticket, but does not authorise the stopping or\nparking of the vehicle in a space during any time when stopping or parking in that zone is\nprohibited—\n(a) under this local law; or\n(b) by the sign on the ticket issuing machine referable to the zone; or\n(c) by a sign referable to that space.\n6.2 Display of parking tickets and parking limits\n(1) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in a ticket machine zone during the period stated on the\nticket issuing machine referable to the zone during which stopping or parking is permitted upon the\npurchase of a parking ticket (the “permitted period”) unless—\n(a) an unexpired parking ticket issued by a ticket issuing machine in that ticket machine zone;\nand\n(b) the date and time of issue or expiry, as the case may be, and the number (if any) of the ticket\nprinted on the ticket, are properly displayed.\n(2) Where more than one parking ticket is displayed bearing the same date and time of issue, the\nperiod for each ticket is to be aggregated and the tickets are to be taken not to have expired until the\nexpiry of the aggregate of those periods providing that the aggregate does not exceed the permitted\nperiod.\n(3) A driver of a vehicle who parks the vehicle in a ticket machine zone must, on purchasing a ticket\nfrom the ticket issuing machine for a period of parking, place the ticket inside the vehicle in a position\nwhere—\n(a) the ticket is clearly visible; and\n(b) the date, location and expiry time or time which the ticket remains valid is able to be read by\nand authorised person examining the ticket from outside the vehicle.\n\n15 January 2019 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 89\n6.3 Parking limits\n(1) A person shall not stop or park a vehicle in a ticket machine zone—\n(a) except during the period stated on signs referable to the zone during which stopping or\nparking is permitted; and\n(b) for longer than the maximum period stated on the ticket issuing machine in the zone during\nwhich the continuous parking of a vehicle in the zone is permitted.\n6.4 Parking position in ticket machine zones\n(1) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in a ticket machine zone that has parking bays parallel to\na kerb other than—\n(a) parallel to the kerb; and\n(b) as close to the kerb as practicable;\n(c) wholly within a parking bay; and\n(d) headed in the direction of the movement of traffic on the part of the road on which the\nparking bay is situated.\n(2) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in a ticket machine zone that does not have parking bays\nparallel to a kerb, other than wholly within a parking bay.\n","sortOrder":7},{"sectionNumber":"Part 7","sectionType":"part","heading":"PARKING STATIONS","content":"PART 7—PARKING STATIONS\n7.1 Fees in ticket machine zones\n(1) A person must not enter a parking station without first obtaining the authorisation of an\nauthorised person if one is on duty or an entrance ticket or a parking ticket unless that person is—\n(a) employed at the parking station and is in the course of his or her duties; or\n(b) a police officer and is in the course of his or her duties; or\n(c) the driver of or a passenger in a vehicle stopping or parked in that station.\n7.2 Stopping or parking in a parking station\n(1) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in—\n(a) an attended parking station, unless the appropriate fee as indicated by a sign is paid when\ndemanded; or\n(b) a parking station with a ticket issuing machine, unless the appropriate fee as indicated by a\nsign on the ticket issuing machine is inserted into the machine and the person complies with\nthe relevant provisions of Part 6 of this local law; or\n(c) a parking station with a fee collection machine, unless the appropriate fee as indicated by a\nsign is inserted into the machine and the ticket is validated immediately prior to departure.\n7.3 No entrance ticket\nWhere no entrance ticket is produced by the driver of a vehicle which is being removed from a parking\nstation, the appropriate fee is to be calculated as if the vehicle had entered the parking station when\nit opened for operation on the day the vehicle was parked in the parking station.\n7.4 Removal of vehicles\n(1) A person must not remove a vehicle which has been stopping or parked in a parking station\nuntil—\n(a) that person or another person has paid the appropriate fee for the period for which the\nvehicle has been stopping or parked; or\n(b) the local government has issued a notice stating the fee and that the stated fee must be paid\nwithin the time specified in the notice.\n(2) A person who receives a notice under subclause (1)(b) must pay the fee within 3 working days from\nthe time of issue of the notice.\n7.5 Maximum parking period in parking stations\nWhere the stopping or parking of vehicles in a parking station is permitted for a limited time, a\nperson must not stop or park a vehicle for a period exceeding the maximum time permitted, unless\nthe vehicle has first been removed from that parking station for at least 1 hour.\n7.6 Parking restrictions for vehicles with multiple occupants\n(1) The Council in respect of any local government parking station and in respect of any period or\ntime may, by the use of a sign, set aside any parking station where entry is prohibited by vehicles\nother than vehicles carrying in addition to the driver at least one other person.\n(2) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in any parking station which has been set aside under\nsubclause (1) at the times or within the period specified under subclause (1) unless the vehicle is\ncarrying at least one other person.\n(3) A person must not enter any parking station which has been set aside under subclause (1) at the\ntimes or within the period specified under subclause (1) unless that person is the driver of or\npassenger in a vehicle carrying at least one other person.\n(4) The fee payable, and the manner of payment, for the parking of a vehicle in any parking station\nwhich has been set aside under subclause (1) and the manner of payment may be determined by\nCouncil from time to time in accordance with the Act.\n\n90 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 January 2019\n7.7 Parking station closure\nAt the expiration of the hours of operation the local government whether or not any vehicle remains\nparked in a parking station may lock the parking station or otherwise prevent the movement of any\nvehicle within, to or from the parking station.\n7.8 Elected Member parking permit\n(1) The local government may issue to any member of the Council an Elected Member parking permit\nand may vary or revoke a permit at any time.\n(2) The holder of an Elected Member parking permit is exempt from those clauses of this local law\nspecified in the permit.\n(3) The exemptions conferred by subclause (2) apply only—\n(a) if the Elected member parking permit is displayed in the vehicle or affixed to the windscreen\nof the vehicle so as to be properly displayed; and\n(b) if the Elected Member parking permit is valid; and\n(c) if the holder of the Elected member parking permit is carrying out his or her duties or\nperforming his or her functions as a member of the Council.\n(4) A, Elected Member parking permit ceases to be valid—\n(a) when the holder of the permit ceases to be a member of the Council; or\n(b) after the expiry date specified in the permit; or\n(c) when revoked by the local government.\nPART 8—RESIDENTIAL AND VISITOR PARKING PERMITS\n8.1 Interpretation\nIn this part unless the context otherwise requires—\n“dwelling unit” means a building or part of a building used for self-contained living quarters;\n“eligible person” means a single house occupier, a single house owner, a unit occupier or a unit\nowner;\n“parking permit” means a residential parking permit and a visitor parking permit issued by the\nCouncil pursuant to clause 8.3;\n“residential unit” means a dwelling unit in a building which is adjacent to a part of a road\nwhereon the standing of vehicles is prohibited for more than a period specified by a sign\nreferable thereto which is adjacent to a metered space and which contains—\n(a) two or more dwelling units; or\n(b) in addition to the dwelling unit, one or more non-residential uses;\n“single house” means a dwelling unit constructed on its own lot and used for self-contained\nliving quarters and which is adjacent to a part of a road whereon the standing of vehicles is\nprohibited for more than a period specified by a sign referable thereto or which is adjacent to\na metered space;\n“unit occupier” means a person who is an occupier of a residential unit but does not include a\nunit owner; and\n“unit owner” means a person who is an owner and occupier of a residential unit.\n8.2 Conditions of exemption for residential parking permits and visitors parking permits\n(1) Where the stopping or parking of a vehicle on any part of a road within the district, whether such\npart be marked as a parking bay or not is prohibited for more than a specified time, the holder of a\nResidential Parking Permit is exempted from such prohibition, and the driver of a vehicle who is\nvisiting a dwelling the occupant of which is the holder of a Visitor’s Parking Permit is exempted from\nsuch prohibition, provided that such exemption shall apply only—\n(a) to the road, roads or parking station specified in the permit, but excluding areas of road\nadjacent to retail premises or other public facilities, where parking of all classes of vehicles\nare subject to time restrictions;\n(b) if such Residential Parking Permit or Visitor’s Parking Permit is properly displayed;\n(c) if the period in respect of which the permit was issued has not expired; and\n(d) if the holder of the permit at the time of stopping or parking such vehicle still resides in the\npremises in respect of which the permit was granted.\n(2) The exemption conferred by subclause (1) shall not apply during any period in which the standing\nof vehicles is prohibited in the road or the part of a road specified in the residential parking permit.\n8.3 Issue of permits\nThe local government may upon the written application of an eligible person and upon payment of the\nfee referred to in clause 8.11 issue a parking permit.\n8.4 Issue of permits\n(1) Subject to clause 8.5—\n(a) The local government shall not issue more than two residential parking permits or two visitor\nparking permits to any single house occupier where the single house is situated on land\nhaving no provision for parking;\n\n15 January 2019 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 91\n(b) The local government shall not issue more than one residential parking permit or one visitor\nparking permit to any single house occupier where the single house is situated on land which\nhas provision of parking of one vehicle only; and\n(c) The local government shall not issue a residential parking permit or a visitor parking permit\nto any single house occupier where the single house is situated on land having provision for\nparking of two or more vehicles.\n8.5 Restrictions on issue of permits to unit owners\n(1) Where no parking is available to a unit owner on the land upon which the residential unit is\nsituated the local government shall not issue more than two residential parking permits or two visitor\nparking permits to the unit owner.\n(2) Where parking for one vehicle only is available to a unit owner on the land upon which the\nresidential unit is situated the local government shall not issue more than one residential parking\npermit or one visitor parking permit to the unit owner.\n(3) Where parking for two or more vehicles is available to a unit owner on the land upon which the\nresidential unit is situated the local government shall not issue a residential parking permit or a\nvisitor parking permit to the unit owner.\n8.6 Restrictions on issue of permits to unit occupiers\n(1) Where no parking is available to a unit occupier on the land upon which the residential unit is\nsituated the local government shall not issue more than two residential parking permits or two visitor\nparking permits to the unit occupier.\n(2) Where parking for one vehicle only is available to a unit occupier on the land upon which the\nresidential unit is situated the local government shall not issue more than one residential parking\npermit or one visitor parking permit to the unit occupier.\n(3) Where parking for two or more vehicles is available to a unit occupier on the land upon which the\nresidential unit is situated the local government shall not issue a residential parking permit or a\nvisitor parking permit to the unit occupier.\n8.7 Restrictions on number of permits\nThe local government shall not issue more than two residential parking permits or two visitor\nparking permits in respect of any single house or residential unit.\n8.8 Validity of permits\n(1) A residential parking permit or visitor parking permit shall cease to be valid—\n(a) upon the expiry of a period of 12 months from and including the date on which it is issued; or\n(b) upon the holder of such permit ceasing to be an eligible person; or\n(c) where the permit is revoked in accordance with clause 8.9.\n(2) The holder of a residential parking permit or visitor parking permit shall forthwith upon such\npermit ceasing to be valid remove such permit from the vehicle in which it is properly displayed\nwhere—\n(a) no fee has been paid; or\n(b) dates shown on supplied permit are no longer current; or\n(c) as directed in writing from the City.\n8.9 Revocation of parking permits\n(1) Where the local government is satisfied that a parking permit is not being used in accordance with\n","sortOrder":8},{"sectionNumber":"Part 8","sectionType":"part","heading":"of this local law, the local government may revoke a permit.","content":"Part 8 of this local law, the local government may revoke a permit.\n(2) The local government may give a person to whom a permit has been issued in accordance with\nclause 8.3 of this local law a notice—\n(a) indicating that the permit may be revoked;\n(b) explaining the reason why the permit may be revoked; and\n(c) requiring the person to notify the local government within 14 days, of any reason why the\npermit should not be revoked.\n(3) After the expiry of 14 days from the date of service of the notice referred to in subclause (2) on the\nperson to whom the permit has been issued, whether or not a response has been received, the local\ngovernment may revoke the permit.\n(4) Where the local government revokes a permit, it is to notify the person that the permit has been\nrevoked.\n(5) A holder of a permit which is revoked by the local government shall forthwith remove such permit\nfrom the vehicle to which it is affixed and shall forthwith return such permit to the local government.\n8.10 Removal of residential or visitor parking permit from vehicle\nA holder of a residential parking permit or visitor parking permit who changes their place of\nresidence or changes their vehicle, which is subject to a residential parking permit or visitor parking\npermit, shall forthwith remove such permit from the vehicle to which it is affixed and shall forthwith\nreturn such permit to the local government.\n8.11 Fees for residential parking permit and visitor’s parking permits\nFees payable for residential parking permits and visitor’s parking permits shall be set by Council\nfrom time to time in accordance with the Act.\n\n92 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 January 2019\n","sortOrder":9},{"sectionNumber":"Part 9","sectionType":"part","heading":"MISCELLANEOUS","content":"PART 9—MISCELLANEOUS\n9.1 Authorised person—certificate of appointment\nAn authorised person shall be issued a certificate of his or her appointment in the form determined by\nthe local government.\n9.2 Authorised persons\nNo offence under this local law is committed by an authorised person while carrying out his or her\nduties.\n9.3 Necessary power\nAn authorised person has all necessary power for the purpose of performing all duties vested in or\nimposed on him or her by the Act and this local law.\n9.4 Impersonating an authorised person\nA person who is not an authorised person must not impersonate an authorised person.\n9.5 Obstructing of an authorised person\nA person must not obstruct or hinder an authorised person in the execution of his or her duties.\n9.6 Removal of notices\nA person, other than the driver of the vehicle or a person authorised by the driver of the vehicle, must\nnot remove from the vehicle any notice put on the vehicle by an authorised person.\n9.7 Display of signs\n(1) A person must not without the authorisation of the Council—\n(a) mark, set up or exhibit a sign purporting to be or resembling a sign marked, set up or\nexhibited by the local government under this local law; or\n(b) remove, deface or misuse a sign or property set up by the local government under this local\nlaw; or\n(c) affix a board, sign, placard, notice, cover or other thing to or paint or write on any part of a\nsign, parking meter, ticket issuing machine or fee collecting machine.\n9.8 Use of parking tickets\n(1) A person must not—\n(a) park a vehicle in a parking facility which requires a parking ticket if there is displayed in\nthat vehicle so as to be visible from outside the vehicle a parking ticket which has been\naltered, obliterated or interfered with;\n(b) produce to an authorised person who accepts payment for parking, a parking ticket which has\nbeen defaced, altered, added to, erased, obliterated or interfered with.\n9.9 Marking vehicles\n(1) An authorised person may in a parking area, parking bay or parking facility—\n(a) mark the face of tyres of a vehicle with chalk or any other non-indelible substance; or\n(b) record the position of a vehicle; or\n(c) take a valve stem reading of a vehicle; or\n(d) record vehicle details and vehicle registration numbers; for a purpose connected with his or\nher duties or powers.\n(2) A person must not remove a mark made by an authorised person so that the purpose of affixing\nthe mark is defeated or likely to be defeated.\n9.10 Exemption when complying with directions\nA person who complies with a direction given by a police officer or an authorised person does not\ncommit an offence against this local law while complying with that direction.\n9.11 Sign presumed to have been established by the local government\nA sign marked, erected, set up, established or displayed on or near a road is, in the absence of\nevidence to the contrary, presumed to be a sign marked, set up, erected, established or displayed\nunder the authority of this local law.\n9.12 Power of an authorised person\n(1) An authorised person is hereby authorised by the local government to—\n(a) carry into effect the provisions of this local law;\n(b) report to the local government on the working effectiveness and functioning of this local law;\n(c) make inquiries and investigations concerning any alleged, purported of actual offences\nagainst any of the provisions of this local law, with power to interview, question and obtain\nparticulars from person(s) wheresoever living in respect of offences and suspected offences\nwithin the parking region;\n(d) recommend to the local government the institution of prosecutions; and\n(e) institute and conduct prosecutions as directed by the local government or the CEO, from time\nto time.\n\n15 January 2019 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 93\n9.13 Special purpose and emergency vehicles\nNotwithstanding anything to the contrary in this local law, the driver of a special purpose vehicle or\nan emergency vehicle may, only in the course of his or her duties and when it is reasonable to do so,\nstop or park the vehicle in any place at any time.\n","sortOrder":10},{"sectionNumber":"Part 10","sectionType":"part","heading":"PARKING POLICY","content":"PART 10—PARKING POLICY\n10.1 Policy\n(1) The Council may make a policy in accordance with clause 10.2 in specifying—\n(a) any matter which may be the subject of a Council resolution under this local law; and\n(b) any matter ancillary or necessary to give effect to a policy.\n10.2 Procedure for making a policy\n(1) The local government is to give local public notice of its intention to make a parking policy.\n(2) The local public notice referred to in subclause (1) is to state that—\n(a) the local government intends to make a parking policy, the purpose and effect of which is\nsummarised in the notice; and\n(b) a copy of the proposed parking policy may be inspected and obtained from the offices of the\nlocal government; and\n(c) submissions in writing about the proposed parking policy may be lodged with the local\ngovernment within 14 days after the day of publication.\n(3) If no submissions are received in accordance with subclause (2)(c), the Council is to decide to—\n(a) give local public notice that the proposed parking policy has effect as a policy on and from the\ndate of publication; or\n(b) mend the proposed parking policy, in which case subclause (5) will apply; or\n(c) not continue with the proposed parking policy.\n(4) If submissions are received in accordance with subclause (2)(c), the Council is to—\n(a) consider those submissions; and\n(b) decide—\n(i) whether or not to amend the proposed parking policy; or\n(ii) not to continue with the proposed parking policy.\n(5) If the Council decides to amend the proposed parking policy, it is to give local public notice—\n(a) of the effect of the amendments; and\n(b) that the proposed policy has effect as a policy on and from the date of publication.\n(6) If the Council decides not to amend the proposed parking policy, it is to give local public notice\nthat the proposed parking policy has effect as a policy on and from the date of publication.\n(7) A proposed policy is to have effect as a policy on and from the date of publication of the local public\nnotice referred to in subclauses (3), (5) and (6).\n(8) A decision under subclauses (3) or (4) is not to be delegated by the Council.\n10.3 Register of the parking policy\n(1) The local government is to keep a register of the parking policy made under clause 10.1 and of any\namendments to or revocations of the parking policy made under clause 10.4.\n(2) Sections 5.94 and 5.95 of the Act are to apply to the register referred to in subclause (1) and for\nthat purpose, the register is to be taken to be information within section 5.94(u)(i) of the Act.\n10.4 Amendment or revocation of the parking policy\n(1) The Council may amend or revoke the parking policy.\n(2) The provisions of clause 10.2 are to apply to an amendment of the parking policy as if the\namendment were a proposed parking policy.\n(3) If the Council revokes the parking policy it is to give local public notice of the revocation and the\nparking policy is to cease to have effect on the date of publication.\n","sortOrder":11},{"sectionNumber":"Part 11","sectionType":"part","heading":"OFFENCES AND PENALTIES","content":"PART 11—OFFENCES AND PENALTIES\n11.1 Offences\n(1) Any person who fails to do anything required or directed to be done under this local law, or who\ndoes anything which under this local law that person is prohibited from doing, commits an offence.\n(2) Any person who commits an offence under this local law is liable, on conviction, to a penalty not\nexceeding $5,000, and if the offence is of a continuing nature, to an additional penalty not exceeding\n$500 for each day or part of a day during which the offence has continued.\n(3) An offence against any provision of this local law is a prescribed offence for the purposes of\nsection 9.16(1) of the Act.\n\n94 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 January 2019\n11.2 Infringement and infringement withdrawal notices\n(1) For the purposes of this local law—\n(a) where a vehicle is involved in the commission of an offence, the form of the notice referred to\nin section 9.13 of the Act is that of Form 1 in the First Schedule of the Local Government\n(Functions and General) Regulations 1996; and\n(b) the form of the infringement notice referred to in section 9.17 of the Act is form 2 in the First\nSchedule of the Local Government (Functions and General) Regulations 1996; and\n(c) the form of the infringement withdrawal notice referred to in section 9.20 of the Act is form 3\nin the First Schedule of the Local Government (Functions and General) Regulations 1996.\n11.3 Modified penalty\n(1) Subject to subclauses (3) and (4), a person who does not contest an allegation that he or she has\ncommitted an offence against this local law may, within the time specified in the notice, pay the\nmodified penalty payable for the particular offence.\n(2) The amount appearing in the final column of the table in Schedule 1 directly opposite an offence\ndescribed in the Schedule is prescribed for the purposes of section 9.17 of the Act as the modified\npenalty for that offence.\n(3) If this local law expresses a modified penalty as a number of penalty units, the monetary value of\nthe modified penalty is the number of dollars obtained by multiplying the value of the penalty unit, as\nspecified in the City of Bunbury Penalty Units Local Law 2018, by the number of penalty units\nspecified in this local law.\n(4) If it appears to the local government that an alleged offence cannot be adequately punished by the\npayment of the modified penalty then the local government may refrain from accepting the modified\npenalty and may in lieu take proceedings against the alleged offender in an appropriate Court.\n(5) Where the time period within which a person may stop or park a vehicle on a road is controlled by\na sign and a person commits an offence under this local law by stopping or parking a vehicle for a\ntime period which exceeds that shown on the sign—\n(a) the amount of the modified penalty shall be the amount referred to in subclause (2) where the\ntime period during which the vehicle was stopped or parked in excess of the time period\nshown on the sign was not greater than that shown on the sign; and\n(b) the amount of the modified penalty shall again be payable in respect of each successive time\nperiod during which the vehicle continues to be parked or stopped in excess of the time period\nshown on the sign, to a maximum of $500.00 on the amount of modified penalties payable for\neach offence.\n11.4 Court proceedings\nA penalty for an offence against this local law (not being a modified penalty) may be recovered by the\nlocal government by taking proceedings against the alleged offender in a Court of appropriate\njurisdiction.\n11.5 Records\nThe local government must keep adequate records of all infringement notices served and modified\npenalties received.\n11.6 Transitional provisions\nSchedule 2 to this local law, which contains transitional provisions, has effect.\n————\n","sortOrder":12},{"sectionNumber":"Sch 1","sectionType":"schedule","heading":"MODIFIED PENALTIES","content":"SCHEDULE 1—MODIFIED PENALTIES\n[Clause 11.3]\nItem\nNo. Clause Nature of Offence\nModified\nPenalty\nUnits\n1 3.2(1) Stop or park vehicle contrary to signs 3\n2 3.2(2)(a) Stop or park vehicle in no stopping area 3\n3 3.2(2)(d) Stop or park vehicle in motorcycle stall 3\n4 3.2(3) Park vehicle in no parking area 6\n5 3.2(4) Stop vehicle contrary to yellow edge line 6\n6 3.2(6) Stop motorcycle in vehicle stall 3\n7 3.2(8) Stop or Park in Authorised Vehicle Only bay 6\n8 3.2(9) Stop or park longer than permitted 3\n9 3.2(10) Park vehicle within road closed area during event/works 10\n10 3.3(1) Stop or park on private property 6\n11 3.3(2) Park vehicle on private property contrary to signs 3\n12 3.4(2) Not wholly within parking stall 6\n13 3.6(1) Stop or park a non-commercial vehicle in loading zone 5\n\n15 January 2019 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 95\nItem\nNo. Clause Nature of Offence\nModified\nPenalty\nUnits\n14 3.6(2) Stop or park a vehicle for over 20 minutes in loading zone 5\n15 3.7(1) Stop or park a vehicle on a reserve 15\n16 3.13 Stop or park vehicle in eating area 6\n17 3.15 Fail to move vehicle when directed by authorised person 6\n18 3.16 Unauthorised sale/hire of goods within parking facility 6\n19 3.17 Obstruct Vehicle in parking station 6\n20 3.18(1) Remaining in Parking Facility when directed to leave by\nauthorised person\n6\n21 3.18(2) Loitering in parking facility 6\n22 3.19 Damage to Parking Facility or Parking equipment 6\n23 4.1(1)(c) Stop or Park a vehicle within 3m of centre of road 6\n24 4.1(1)(e) Stop or park a vehicle facing wrong direction 6\n25 4.2(1)(a) Stop or Park a vehicle on a median strip 6\n26 4.2(1)(b) Stop or Park a Vehicle Adjacent to a median strip 6\n27 4.3(1)(b) Stop or Park unattached trailer or caravan 6\n28 4.3(2) Display Vehicle for Sale in Street 6\n29 4.4(3)(a) Obstruction—Street or Roadway 6\n30 4.4(3)(b) Obstruction—Right of Way/ Private Drive 6\n31 4.4(3)(d) Stop or park a vehicle within 20m of Traffic Lights 6\n32 4.4(3)(e) Stop or park a vehicle within 10m of an intersection 6\n33 4.4(3)(f) Stop or Park opposite excavation, work, scaffolding that would\ncause obstruction\n6\n34 4.4(3)(g) Stop or Park a vehicle on a footpath or pedestrian crossing 6\n35 4.4(3)(h) Stop or Park on Bridge or Tunnel 6\n36 4.5(1) Double parked 6\n37 4.6(1)(c) Stop or Park vehicle on Verge causing obstruction to pedestrians 6\n38 4.7(1)(a) Stop or park vehicle within 1 metre of fire hydrant 6\n39 4.7(1)(b) Stop or Park vehicle within 3 metres of public post box 6\n40 4.8(2)(a) Stop or Park within 20m of bus bay 6\n41 4.8(2)(b) Stop or Park within 20m of pedestrian crossing 6\n42 4.8(2)(c) Stop or Park with 20m of children’s crossing 6\n43 4.9 Park same vehicle in same zone within 1 hour 3\n44 4.10 Stop or park vehicle in Bus Bay 6\n45 4.13(8) Stop or Park unauthorised vehicle in work zone 6\n46 4.14(1)(a) Park long/heavy vehicle in built up area for more than 1 hour 6\n47 6.2(1) Ticket expired or wrongly displayed 3\n48 7.1 Unauthorised entry to parking station 6\n49 7.5 Repark vehicle in Parking Station with 1 hour after time expired 3\n50 8.8(2) Display invalid parking permit 6\n51 8.9(5) Display a revoked parking permit 6\n52 9.5 Obstruction of authorised person 6\n53 9.6 Unauthorised removal of notice on vehicle 6\n54 9.7(1)(a) Erect or display unauthorised sign 6\n55 9.7(1)(b) Unauthorised removal of sign 6\n56 9.7(1)(c) Unauthorised covering of sign 6\n57 9.8 Produce or Park a vehicle with a voucher/ticket that has been\naltered or defaced\n6\n58 9.9(2) Unauthorised removal of Chalk/mark from tyre 6\n59 Any other clauses 6\n————\n","sortOrder":13},{"sectionNumber":"Sch 2","sectionType":"schedule","heading":"TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS","content":"SCHEDULE 2—TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS\n[Clause 11.6]\n1. In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“local law” refers to the local law relating to City of Bunbury Parking and Parking Facilities\nLocal Law to which this Schedule is attached;\n\n96 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 15 January 2019\n“permit” includes a permit granted by the City of Bunbury under the repealed local law;\n“infringement” includes an infringement issued by the City of Bunbury under the repealed local\nlaw;\n“approval” means any Approval, Licence, Consent Order or other permission issued by the City\nof Bunbury permitting any activity, conduct or recreation upon any land or area within the\nDistrict of the City of Bunbury;\n“prohibition” includes any ban, barring order, prohibition or regulation of any activity, conduct\nor recreation upon any land or part thereof located within the District of the City of Bunbury;\nand\n“the repealed local laws” means the repealed City of Bunbury local laws stated in clause 1.1 of\nthis local law.\n2. This Schedule does not limit the operation of the Interpretation Act 1984.\n3. Any reference, whether express or implied or having effect as such a reference, in any written Law\nor document to any provision of the repealed local laws shall be construed as a reference to this local\nlaw or, as the case may be, to the specific corresponding provisions of this local law.\n4. Any notice given or thing done, or having affect as being made, given or done under a provision of\nthe repealed local laws which corresponds to a provision of this local law shall have effect as if it had\nbeen made, given or done under the corresponding provision of this local law.\n5. Any licence, permit approval or consent given by the local government under the repealed local\nlaws corresponding to a type of consent approval or permission under this local law, shall if in force\nimmediately before the date of gazettal of this local law be deemed converted into an approval consent\nor permission under this local law by operation of this Schedule.\n6. Any infringement issued under the repealed local laws shall be dealt with in the same manner as if\nit were an infringement issued under the corresponding provisions of this local law.\n7. A conviction imposed by any competent Court under the repealed local laws shall for the purposes\nof this local law—\n(a) be treated as though it had been imposed, made or ordered under this local law where a\nprovision of this local law corresponds with a provision of the repealed local laws concerned;\nand\n(b) be taken into account for the purposes of assessing appropriate penalty.\n————\nDated 11 December 2018.\nThe Common Seal of the City of Bunbury was affixed by authority of a resolution of the City in the\npresence of—\nGARY BRENNAN, Mayor.\nMAL OSBORNE, Chief Executive Officer.\n———————————","sortOrder":14}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"completionTokens":876},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":7,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation appears to be a consolidated remake of two existing local laws (the 2005 Parking Local Law and an earlier Cats Local Law). The scope has not expanded beyond the original purposes — parking management and cat control respectively. The Parking Local Law repeals and replaces the 2005 version, while the Cats Local Law appears to be a new instrument under the Cat Act 2011, maintaining the traditional local government regulatory approach to animal control."},"complexity_factors":["Extensive cross-referencing to external legislation (Road Traffic Act 1974, Road Traffic Code 2000, Cat Act 2011, Local Government Act 1995)","47+ defined terms in the Parking Local Law alone, many incorporating definitions from other statutes","Nested conditional logic throughout (e.g. permit exemptions that depend on parking availability at residence, which varies by dwelling type)","Dual legislative structure — two completely different local laws published together with overlapping administrative provisions","Multiple permit schemes with tiered eligibility criteria (residential parking permits have 6 different sub-categories based on dwelling type and parking availability)","Detailed technical specifications for cattery construction materials, ventilation, and hygiene requirements","Extensive schedules including 59 specific parking offences with varying penalty units","Transitional provisions preserving rights and liabilities from repealed legislation"],"plain_english_summary":"The Gazette publishes two City of Bunbury local laws: Cats Local Law 2018, which regulates cat ownership, nuisance control, permit requirements for extra cats and catteries, and restricted areas; and Parking and Parking Facilities Local Law 2018, which governs where and how vehicles may stop or park, paid and restricted zones, residential permits, prohibited conduct, and enforcement powers.  \n\nBoth affect residents, businesses and visitors who keep cats or use Bunbury’s parking facilities."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":7,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The local law repeals the 2005 Parking and Parking Facilities Local Law (cl. 1.1) but Schedule 2 preserves existing approvals, permits and infringements and maps references to corresponding provisions. It continues to regulate stopping, parking, signage, fees and enforcement across the City’s parking region (cl. 2.5), so the substantive territorial and subject‑matter scope remains aligned with the predecessor regime."},"complexity_factors":["Extensive, technical definitions and cross‑references to state traffic law (cl. 1.4, 2.2).","Multiple, overlapping regimes (metered zones, ticket machine zones, parking stations, residential and visitor permits) with distinct rules (Parts 5–8, 6.1–6.4).","Detailed operational prescriptions for positioning, time limits and signs that require careful site‑level interpretation (Parts 3–4, 5.2, 6.4).","Comprehensive enforcement architecture: modified penalties, court proceedings, impounding and removal powers (Part 11, cl. 3.20, Sch 1).","Broad discretions and delegations to Council, CEO and authorised persons to set fees, issue/ revoke permits and make policy (cls 2.3–2.4, 9.12, 10.1–10.4).","Interaction with other instruments (Penalty Units Local Law, Road Traffic Code, Main Roads signage) increases compliance complexity (cl. 2.6, cl. 6.3(3)).","Transitional provisions converting prior permits and infringements into the new regime (cl. 1.1, Schedule 2)."],"plain_english_summary":"This local law sets detailed rules for stopping, parking and managing public parking across the City of Bunbury. It establishes metered and ticketed zones, parking stations, residential/visitor permits, signage and offences with fines and impoundment (Parts 3–8, 11).\n\nCouncil and the CEO set fees, signs and permits (cls 2.3–2.4, 10.1); drivers and permit‑holders pay fees and face modified penalties (cls 5.1, 11.3; Schedule 1). Authorised persons enforce rules, remove vehicles and revoke permits (cls 3.20, 9.12)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/parking-and-parking-facilities-local-law-2018","history":"/api/acts/parking-and-parking-facilities-local-law-2018/history","analysis":"/api/acts/parking-and-parking-facilities-local-law-2018/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/parking-and-parking-facilities-local-law-2018/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/parking-and-parking-facilities-local-law-2018/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/parking-and-parking-facilities-local-law-2018/documents"}}