Local Government Act 1974

Roads (other than regional roads), service lanes, and access ways - Formation, alteration, stopping, and closing of roads

334: Erection of monuments, etc, and provision of facilities on or under roads

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"Councils can build safety areas, plant gardens, or put up monuments on roads to help people."

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The council can do things like construct a pedestrian safety area on a road, or plant grass and flowers. They can also put up a monument or statue on a road. The council can build facilities on, over, or under a road to help keep people safe, or to make it easier for them to use the road. When the council does these things, they must make sure it does not block traffic too much, unless the road is a pedestrian mall declared under section 336. If the council builds or provides something on a road, they can describe it in a bylaw or resolution by saying which road it is on and where it is on that road.

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"Things councils can put on or near roads to guide traffic or keep people safe"

334A: Council may light roads, etc, or

"Councils can put lights on roads and in public places to keep communities safe"

Part 21Roads (other than regional roads), service lanes, and access ways
Formation, alteration, stopping, and closing of roads

334Erection of monuments, etc, and provision of facilities on or under roads

The council may—
construct and enclose any part of a road as a pedestrian safety area:
lay out or plant grass plots or flower beds or trees on any road, and prohibit traffic, in whole or in part, on any such plots and flower beds laid out in roads (whether laid out before or after the commencement of this Part) by or under the authority of the council:
erect on any road a monument, statue, or other such erection:
construct or provide on, over, or under any road facilities for the safety, health, or convenience of the public, or for the control of traffic or the enforcement of traffic laws:

provided that no such construction, erection, laying out, or planting shall be carried out, unless in the opinion of the council the construction, erection, laying out, or planting will not unduly impede vehicular traffic entering or using the road (not being a road or part of a road that has been declared a pedestrian mall under section 336).

For the purposes of any resolution or bylaw of the council, anything constructed or provided under the authority of the council shall be deemed to be sufficiently described if the road in which it is constructed or provided and its approximate locality in that road are specified in the bylaw or resolution.

Notes

Section 334: inserted, on 1 April 1979, by section 2 of the Local Government Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 43).
Section 334(1) proviso: amended, on 7 July 2004, by section 8 of the Local Government Act 1974 Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 64).