Queensland Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 60

60 Control of roads

(1) A local government has control of all roads in its local government area.

(2) This control includes being able to—

(a) survey and resurvey roads; and

(b) construct, maintain and improve roads; and

(c) approve the naming and numbering of private roads; and

(d) name and number other roads; and

(e) make a local law to regulate the use of roads, including—

(i) the movement of traffic on roads, subject to the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 ; and

(ii) the parking of vehicles on roads, subject to the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (including the maximum time that a vehicle may be parked in a designated rest area that adjoins a road, for example); and

(iii) by imposing obligations on the owner of land that adjoins a road (including an obligation to fence the land to prevent animals going on the road, for example); and

(f) make a local law to regulate the construction, maintenance and use of—

(i) public utilities along, in, over or under roads; and

(ii) ancillary works and encroachments along, in, over or under roads; and

(g) realign a road in order to widen the road; and

(h) acquire land for use as a road.

(3) Nothing in subsection (1) makes a local government liable for the construction, maintenance or improvement of a private road.

(4) A
"private road" is a road over land that is owned by a person who may lawfully exclude other persons from using the road.