General requirement for permit to carry out works on public place
36 General requirement for permit to carry out works on public place
(1) A person must not carry out works on a public place, or engage another person to carry out works on a public place for and on behalf of the person, unless the person has been granted a permit to do so.
Penalty: $3 000.
(2) A person must carry out works on a public place in accordance with a permit that authorises the public works.
Penalty: $3 000.
(3) Subject to any determination of the council to the contrary, clause (1) and (2) do not apply to the owner or occupier of adjacent land who:
(a) lays, places or erects an irrigation system in or on the nature strip adjoining the land, unless the irrigation system or any part of the irrigation system is laid or placed more than 1500 mm deep in the ground; or
plants and maintains grass on the nature strip.
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