LOCAL LAWS


HORSHAM RURAL CITY COUNCIL HAS THE FOLLOWING LOCAL LAWS:


Meeting Procedures Local Law Number 1 Community Local Law Number 3 Community (Amendment) Local Law Number 4


Community Local Law Number 3 was adopted on 19 December 2011, following an extensive review of the previous General Local Law Number 2. Community Local Law Number 3 encompasses all other Council Local Laws. Throughout the process that led to adoption of this Local Law, Council conducted the following to ensure that obligations in relation to human rights were met:


a public information and consultation forum; public notices inviting submissions; three meetings with Council to discuss development of the Local Law; five sub-committee meetings to review submissions and modify the


Local Law; and one forum with local builders.


Consideration was given to proposed limitations on the movement of livestock within the municipality, with the view that this could be a restriction on the individual right to freedom of movement. It was concluded that controls over various activities are not incompatible or interfering with the rights under the Charter where there remains the ability to obtain a permit subject to prescribed standards and conditions meeting community expectations. In reviewing the Local Law, no submissions were made raising concerns with the impact of a control or requirement on a human right under the Charter.


At its meeting on 17 June 2013, Council, having concluded procedures required under the Local Government Act 1989, Section 119(3), resolved to make the Community (Amendment) Local Law No. 4.


THE OBJECTIVES OF THE COMMUNITY (AMENDMENT) LOCAL LAW NO 4 ARE TO:


amend Community Local Law No. 3 of 2011 to clarify and better apply some of its provisions concerning the condition and appearance of land; and


protect the community from unsightly and hazardous land that contributes to the deterioration of neighbourhoods and reinforcing ways in which abatement of those conditions can be achieved.


THIS LOCAL LAW WILL ACHIEVE ITS PURPOSES BY A NUMBER OF MEASURES . IT WILL:


include a specific offence where an owner or occupier of land allows the condition and appearance of land to be or become:


(a) a risk or dangerous to the health of people or other land in the vicinity;


(b) unsightly or detrimental to the overall amenity and appearance of other land in the vicinity;


(c) a nuisance to people or other land in the vicinity.


Amend the current requirements about the form and content of a clean up order. Arguably the term “clean up order” is self explanatory, but some doubt was expressed about the effectiveness of the current provision and what it is intended to achieve. The information to be included in a clean up order will also make it clear that if a person fails to do the work required by the order, the Council may do the work and recover the cost.


Amend clause 9.9 of the principal Local Law to ensure that powers delegated from the Council, specifically to Authorised Officers appointed under the Act, are adequate and appropriate for the purposes of enforcing the Local Law.


Local Laws are available on the Horsham Rural City Council website www.hrcc.vic.gov.au or by contacting the Municipal Offices on telephone (03) 5382 9777.


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