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Traffic Act 1987
12Erection of or interference with traffic control devices
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12 Erection of or interference with traffic control devices
(1) A person shall not, without the consent in writing of the competent
authority:
(a) erect, establish or display; or
(b) interfere with, alter or take down,
a traffic control device on a public street or public place.
(2) A person shall not erect, establish, place, display or maintain
anything on a public street or public place which:
(a) interferes with the effectiveness of a traffic control device;
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(b) may prevent a driver approaching a traffic control device from
clearly seeing that device or any part of it;
(c) may distract the attention of a driver approaching a traffic
control device from that device;
(d) may prevent a driver on a public street or public place from
clearly seeing the street or place ahead of that driver; or
(e) purports to be, or is an imitation of, or is similar to:
(i) a traffic control device; or
(ii) a flashing light of a type fitted to an emergency vehicle.
(3) The owner of a light shall not use it or permit it to be used where
the Director has, by notice in writing to that owner, declared that the
use of the light is a danger to traffic.
(4) Where a person has erected, established, placed, displayed or
maintained a thing on a public street or public place which, in the
opinion of the Director or the competent authority, contravenes
section 12(2), the Director or competent authority may direct that
person to remove it in such time as the Director or competent
authority specifies.
(5) The Director or the competent authority may, where a person given
a direction under subsection (4) fails to comply with the direction
within the specified time, remove the thing or cause it to be
removed, and the cost of that removal shall be a debt due and
payable by that person to the Territory (where the direction is given
by the Director) or the competent authority.