Parking Local Law 2020
8GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 January 2021
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8 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5 January 2021 1.10 Powers of the Council The Council may prohibit or regulate, by signs or otherwise, the stopping or parking of any vehicle or any class of vehicles in any part of the parking region but must do so consistently with this local law. PART 2—PARKING STALLS, PARKING STATIONS AND PARKING AREAS 2.1 Determination of parking stalls, parking stations and parking areas (1) The Council may by resolution constitute, determine or vary— (a) parking stalls; (b) parking stations; (c) parking areas; (d) no parking areas; (e) no stopping areas; (f) permitted time and conditions of parking in parking stalls, parking stations and parking areas which may vary with the locality; (g) permitted classes of vehicles which may park in parking stalls, parking areas and parking stations; (h) permitted classes of persons who may park in specified parking stalls, parking stations and parking areas; and (i) the manner of parking in parking stalls, parking stations and parking areas. (2) Where the Council makes a determination under subclause (1), the CEO must give local public notice of, and erect signs to give effect to, the determination. 2.2 Vehicles to be within parking stall (1) Subject to subclauses (2), (3) and (4), a person must not park a vehicle in a parking stall otherwise than— (a) parallel to and as close to the kerb as is practicable; (b) wholly within the stall; and (c) if in a thoroughfare, headed in the direction of the movement of traffic on the side of the thoroughfare in which the stall is situated. (2) Subject to subclause (3), where a parking stall is set out otherwise than parallel to the kerb, then a person must park a vehicle in that stall wholly within it. (3) If a vehicle is too long or too wide to fit completely within a single parking stall then the person parking the vehicle must do so within the minimum number of parking stalls needed to park that vehicle. (4) A person must not park a vehicle partly within and partly outside a parking area. 2.3 Parking prohibitions and restrictions (a) park a vehicle so as to obstruct an entrance to or an exit from a parking station, or an access way within a parking station; (b) except with the permission of the CEO or an authorised person, park a vehicle on any part of a parking station contrary to a sign referable to that part; (c) permit a vehicle to park on any part of a parking station, if an authorised person directs the driver of such vehicle to move the vehicle; or (d) park or attempt to park a vehicle in a parking stall in which another vehicle is parked, but this paragraph does not prevent the parking of a motorcycle and a bicycle together in a stall marked ‘M/C’, if the bicycle is parked in accordance with subclause (2). (2) Despite subclause (1)(b), a driver may park a vehicle in a permissive parking stall or station (except in a parking area for people with disabilities) for twice the length of time allowed, provided that— (a) the driver’s vehicle displays a current disability parking permit; and (b) a disabled person to which that disability parking permit relates is either the driver of the vehicle or a passenger in the vehicle. PART 3—PARKING GENERALLY 3.1 Restrictions on parking in particular areas (1) Subject to subclause (3), a person must not park a vehicle in a thoroughfare or part of a thoroughfare, or part of a parking station— (a) if by a sign it is set apart for the parking of vehicles of a different class; (b) if by a sign it is set apart for the parking of vehicles by persons of a different class; or (c) during any period when the parking of vehicles is prohibited by a sign.