South Australian Current Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 238

238—Power to control access and use of land

        (1)         A council may make by-laws controlling access to and use of local government land.

Examples—

The by-laws may for example—

        •         fix opening hours for specified land and prohibit or restrict access at other times;

        •         regulate, restrict or prohibit public access to specified land;

        •         regulate, restrict or prohibit the bringing of animals or a specified class of animals onto specified land or the movement of animals or a specified class of animals on specified land;

        •         close specified land, or part of the land, to public access;

        •         regulate, restrict or prohibit the lighting of fires;

        •         regulate, restrict or prohibit sporting or other activities on specified land;

        •         regulate the use of facilities provided on specified land;

        •         regulate the speed or route of vehicles driving on the land;

        •         regulate, restrict or prohibit the parking or standing of vehicles.

        (2)         However—

            (a)         a by-law cannot be made under subsection (1) about access to or use of a road; and

            (b)         a by-law prohibiting a person from bringing alcoholic liquor onto local government land, or consuming alcoholic liquor on local government land, may only be made if the land constitutes a park or a reserve.

        (3)         If a council makes a by-law about access to or use of a particular piece of local government land under this section, a notice setting out the effect of the by-law should be erected in a prominent position on, or in the immediate vicinity of, the land to which the by-law applies.