Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 76

76 Injury to official traffic signs

(1) Where any injury is done to an official traffic sign the following persons, namely—

(a) any person who negligently or wilfully causes such injury;

(b) if that person is an agent or employee—the principal or employer of that person;

shall each be answerable in damages to the chief executive or the local government (according to which of them installed such sign) for the whole injury, and such damages may be—

(c) sued for by; or

(d) recovered in a summary way under the Justices Act 1886 , on complaint of;

the chief executive or the local government or any person authorised by the chief executive or the local government in that behalf, either generally or in the particular case, but the chief executive or the local government shall not be entitled by virtue of the provisions of this section to recover twice for the same cause of action.

(2) Where the owner of any vehicle pays any money in respect of any injury caused through the wilful act or negligence of the driver of that vehicle to any official traffic sign, the owner shall be entitled to recover the money so paid, with costs, from that driver.