South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts219—Power to assign a name, or change the name, of a road or public
place
(1) A council may
assign a name to a public or private road, or to a public place, or change the
name of a public or private road, or of a public place.
(1a) The council must
assign a name to a public road created after the commencement of this
subsection by land division.
(2) If a council
proposes to change the name of a public road that runs into the area of an
adjoining council, the council must—
(a) give
the adjoining council at least two months notice of the proposed change; and
(b)
consider any representations made by the adjoining council in response to the
notice.
(3) A council—
(a) must
immediately notify the Registrar-General, the Surveyor-General and the
Valuer-General of the assignment of a name, or the change of a name, under
this section; and
(b)
must, on request by the Registrar-General, the Surveyor-General or the
Valuer-General, provide information about the names of roads and public places
in the council's area.
(4) Public notice must
be given of the assigning or changing of a name under subsection (1).
(5) A council must
prepare and adopt a policy relating to the assigning of names under this
section.
(6) A council may at
any time alter its policy, or substitute a new policy.
(7) Notice of the
adopting or altering of a policy under this section must be published—
(a) in
the Gazette; and
(b) in a
newspaper circulating within the area of the council; and
(c) on a
website determined by the chief executive officer.
(8) A reference in
this section to land division is a reference to the division of an allotment
under the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 or to the
dealing with land under the Roads (Opening and Closing) Act 1991 so as
to open a road.