27Offence—preventing traffic control device from being clearly observed

27 Offence—preventing traffic control device from being clearly observed

27 Offence—preventing traffic control device from being clearly observed

(1) A person must not place or cause to be placed anything in a position that would prevent or be likely to prevent a prescribed traffic control device from being clearly observed by the driver of a motor vehicle approaching the device along a portion of a road for which the device has been installed or displayed.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

Note.

The Act, section 123 also makes it an offence for a person to install or display, or to interfere with, alter or remove, a prescribed traffic control device without appropriate authority.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person has the approval of Transport for NSW to place the matter or thing along the portion of the road.

(3) If Transport for NSW or a police officer directs a person who has contravened subsection (1) to remove immediately the matter or thing concerned, the person must comply with the direction.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(4) In this section—

prescribed traffic control device has the same meaning as in the Act, section 121.