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Local Government Act 1974

Public services - Parking places and buildings and transport stations

591: Provision of parking places and buildings and transport stations

You could also call this:

"Councils can create parking areas and transport stops for public use"

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The council can provide parking places and buildings and transport stations for you to use. They can buy or take land or buildings to do this. They can also use land or buildings they already have for this purpose.

The council can make any land or building they have into a parking place or transport station. They can let you use part of a road as a parking place or transport station. They can also choose a place or road to be a transport station for buses or trucks.

When the council does this, they must make sure you can still get to the houses or shops near the road. They must also make sure the road is not blocked and that you are not annoyed by the parking place or transport station.

If the council lets you use part of a road as a parking place, they are not responsible if your vehicle gets damaged. The council can also rent out parking places or transport stations to people, but only if they are not part of a road.

A parking place is where you can leave your vehicle, and it can be a building or an open area. A transport station is where buses or trucks can wait between trips, and it can have buildings and facilities like ticket offices and waiting rooms. You can find more information about this in section 591A or in Part 14.

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Part 34Public services
Parking places and buildings and transport stations

591Provision of parking places and buildings and transport stations

  1. The council may provide parking places and buildings and transport stations, and for that purpose may—

  2. take, purchase, or otherwise acquire any land or buildings or erect any buildings in or near to the district:
    1. utilise any land or buildings that may lawfully be appropriated for the purpose:
      1. take all such steps as the council thinks necessary to adapt for use as a parking place or building or transport station any land or building that it may acquire or utilise under this section:
        1. authorise the use as a parking place or transport station of any part of a road:
          1. appoint any place or any road or any specified part of any place or road as a transport station for the exclusive use of vehicles engaged in any passenger service or goods service or any other transport service.

            1. The council shall not authorise the use of any part of a road as a parking place or transport station so as unreasonably to prevent access to any premises adjoining the road, or the use of the road by any person entitled to the use thereof, or so as to be a nuisance.

            2. The exercise by the council of its power under this section with respect to the use of any part of a road shall not render it subject to any liability in respect of loss of or damage to any vehicle or the fittings or contents of any vehicle.

            3. Except as provided in bylaws made pursuant to section 591A or as provided in subsection (2) of that section, no part of a road may be appointed as a parking place available only to a specified person or to a specified class of persons or to vehicles owned or operated by a specified person or by specified classes of persons.

            4. The council may, in the exercise of its power of leasing and letting under Part 14, let or lease to any person for use as a parking place or transport station any parking place or transport station provided by it (not being part of a road).

            5. In this section—

              parking place means a place (including a building) where vehicles, or any class of vehicles, may wait

                transport station means a place where transport-service vehicles, or any class of transport-service vehicles, may wait between trips,—

                  and each of those expressions includes all necessary approaches and means of entrance to and egress from any such place, and all such buildings, ticket offices, waiting rooms, cloak rooms, structures, appliances, and other facilities as the council considers to be necessary or desirable for the efficient use of that place for the purpose for which it is provided and the collection of charges in relation to that use.

                Notes
                • Section 591: inserted, on , by section 2 of the Local Government Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 59).
                • Section 591(1) proviso: repealed, on , by section 56 of the Local Government Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 42).