650AStrata parking areas and community scheme parking areas

650A Strata parking areas and community scheme parking areas

650A Strata parking areas and community scheme parking areas

(1) The driver of a vehicle parked in a strata parking area or a community scheme parking area established under this section otherwise than as permitted by a notice or sign erected by the council is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

(2) The terms of the notice or sign may relate to any one or more of the following—

(a) the time during which residents or visitors may use the parking area,

(b) the maximum period for which a vehicle may be parked in the parking area (or in any part of the parking area),

(c) the designation of a parking space within the parking area as a space for the sole use of persons with disabilities.

(3) For the purposes of this section, a vehicle parked otherwise than as permitted by any such notice or sign includes a vehicle parked in a parking space designated as a space for the sole use of persons with disabilities, unless—

(a) a parking authority for a person with disabilities is displayed on the vehicle in the manner specified in the authority, and

(b) the conditions specified in the authority are being observed, and

(c) the authority is in force.

(4) If spaces in which a vehicle may be parked in a strata parking area or community scheme parking area are marked by the council or the owners corporation or association (for example, by means of painted lines or by studs, pads or plates), a person must not cause a vehicle to be parked in the parking area—

(a) otherwise than in such a parking space, or

(b) in a parking space in which another vehicle is parked, or

(c) so that any part of the vehicle is on or across (or partly on or across) any line, stud, pad, plate or other mark defining the space or so that the vehicle is not wholly within the space.

Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.

(5) The driver of a vehicle in a strata parking area or community scheme parking area must at all times observe and comply with any reasonable direction of any authorised person regarding the parking or movement of the vehicle within the parking area.