3848GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 29 October 2019

3848 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 29 October 2019 (2) A person must not stop or park a vehicle in an area set aside for persons or vehicles of a particular class during any permitted period unless a permit is displayed inside the vehicle in a prominent position, in such a manner as to be clearly visible from the front of the vehicle and able to be read by an Authorised Person at all times while the vehicle remains stopped or parked in the zone. 6.6 Return of a parking permit to the local government A parking permit holder who ceases to occupy the premises or own a vehicle for which a parking permit was issued, must remove any permit displayed in or affixed to the windscreen of any vehicle and return the permit(s) to the local government. 6.7 Counterfeit or altered parking permit A person must not use or display in a vehicle, a parking permit that has in any way been counterfeited, altered, obliterated or interfered with. 6.8 Replacement of a parking permit The local government may issue a replacement residential, visitors or commercial parking permit when a written application is made and the appropriate fee is paid. 6.9 Discretionary Authority Notwithstanding any other provisions in this local law or a policy adopted by the local government which restricts the number of parking permits that may be issued, the local government may approve the issue of additional parking permits to any eligible person on such terms and conditions as the local government sees fit. 6.10 Fees payable Fees payable for the issue of a permit must be determined in accordance with section 6.16 to 6.19 of the Act. PART 7—MISCELLANEOUS 7.1 Impersonating an Authorised Person A person who is not an Authorised Person of the local government must not impersonate or assume the duties of an Authorised Person. 7.2 Removal of notices from a vehicle A person, other than the owner or driver of the vehicle or a person acting under the direction of the owner or driver of the vehicle, must not remove from the vehicle any notice put on the vehicle by an Authorised Person. 7.3 Unauthorised signs and defacing signs A person must not without the authority of the local government— (a) mark, set up or exhibit a sign purporting to be or resembling a sign marked, set up or exhibited by the local government under this local law; (b) remove, deface or misuse a sign or property, set up or exhibited by the local government under this local law or attempt to do any such act; or (c) affix a board, sign, placard, notice or other thing to or paint or write upon any part of a sign set up or exhibited by the local government under this local law. 7.4 Contravention of signs An inscription or symbol on a sign operates and has effect according to its tenor and a person contravening the direction on a sign commits an offence under this local law. 7.5 General provisions about signs A sign marked, erected, set up, established or displayed on or near a thoroughfare is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary presumed to be a sign marked, erected, set up, established or displayed under the authority of this local law. 7.6 Damage to parking areas and associated infrastructure (1) A person must not, nor attempt to, remove, damage, deface, misuse or interfere with any part of a parking station, parking facility, parking area or any infrastructure appurtenant to those areas. (2) A person must not operate or attempt to operate a ticket issuing machine or pay station except in accordance with the operating instructions appearing on those devices. 7.7 Special purpose and emergency vehicles Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this local law, the driver of— (a) a special purpose vehicle may, only in the course of performing his or her duties and when it is expedient and safe to do so, stop or park the vehicle in any place, at any time; and (b) an emergency vehicle may, in the course of performing his or her duties and when it is expedient and safe to do so or where he or she honestly and reasonably believes that it is expedient and safe to do so, stop or park the vehicle at any place, at any time. 7.8 Vehicles not to obstruct a public place (1) A person must not park or leave a vehicle, or any part of a vehicle, in a public place so that it obstructs the use of any part of that public place without the permission of the local government or unless authorised under any written law.