Parking Local Law 2020
10GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 January 2021
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10 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 January 2021 (c) obstructing a right of way, private drive or carriageway or so close as to deny a vehicle reasonable access to or egress from the right of way, private drive or carriageway; (d) alongside or opposite any excavation, works, hoarding, scaffolding or obstruction on the carriageway, if the vehicle would obstruct traffic; (e) on or within 10 metres of any portion of a carriageway bounded by a traffic island; (f) on any footpath or pedestrian crossing; (g) between the boundaries of a carriageway and any double longitudinal line consisting of 2 continuous lines or between a double longitudinal line consisting of a continuous line and a broken or dotted line and the boundary of a carriageway nearer to the continuous line, unless there is a distance of at least 3 metres clear between the vehicle and the double longitudinal line; (h) on an intersection, except adjacent to a carriageway boundary that is not broken by an intersecting carriageway; (i) within 1 metre of a fire hydrant or fire plug, or of any sign or mark indicating the existence of a fire hydrant or fire plug; (j) within 3 metres of a public letter pillar box, unless the vehicle is being used for the purposes of collecting postal articles from the pillar box; or (k) within 10 metres of the nearer property line of any thoroughfare intersecting the thoroughfare on the side on which the vehicle is parked, unless a sign or markings on the carriageway indicate otherwise. (4) A person must not park a vehicle so that any portion of the vehicle is within 10 metres of the departure side of— (a) a sign inscribed with the words ‘Bus Stop’ or ‘Hail Bus Here’ (or with equivalent symbols depicting these purposes) unless the vehicle is a bus stopped to take up or set down (5) A person must not park a vehicle so that any portion of the vehicle is within 20 metres of the approach side of— (a) a sign inscribed with the words ‘Bus Stop’ or ‘Hail Bus Here’ (or with equivalent symbols depicting these purposes) unless the vehicle is a bus stopped to take up or set down passengers; (6) A person must not park a vehicle so that any portion of the vehicle is within 20 metres of either the approach side or the departure side of the nearest rail of a railway level crossing. 3.6 Authorised person may order vehicle on thoroughfare to be moved The driver of a vehicle must not park, or continue to park, that vehicle on any part of a thoroughfare in contravention of this local law after an authorised person has directed the driver to move it. 3.7 Authorised person may mark tyres (1) An authorised person may mark the tyres of a vehicle parked in a parking facility with chalk or any other non-indelible substance for a purpose connected with or arising out of his or her duties or powers. (2) A person must not remove a mark made by an authorised person so that the purpose of the affixing of the mark is defeated or likely to be defeated. 3.8 No movement of vehicles to avoid time limitation (1) Where the parking of vehicles in a parking facility is permitted for a limited time, a person must not move a vehicle within the parking facility so that the total time of parking exceeds the maximum time allowed for parking in the parking facility. (2) Where the parking of vehicles in a thoroughfare is permitted for a limited time, a person must not move a vehicle along that thoroughfare so that the total time of parking exceeds the maximum time permitted, unless the vehicle has first been removed from the thoroughfare for at least 2 hours. 3.9 No parking of vehicles exposed for sale and in other circumstances A person must not park a vehicle on any portion of a thoroughfare— (a) for the purpose of exposing it for sale; (b) if that vehicle is a motor vehicle which is not licensed under the Road Traffic (Vehicles) Act 2012; (c) if that vehicle is a trailer or a caravan unattached to a motor vehicle; or (d) for the purpose of effecting repairs to it, other than the minimum repairs necessary to enable the vehicle to be moved to a place other than a thoroughfare. 3.10 Parking on private land (1) In this clause a reference to ‘land’ does not include land— (a) which belongs to the local government; Act 1997;