Local Laws

After a comprehensive review, City of Moreton Bay has made 13 new local laws to better align with contemporary community needs, expectations and lifestyle. The laws were prepared in direct response to feedback from the community through Council’s Local Laws Review Project, a three-phase engagement program conducted between March 2021 and June 2023. The new laws commenced on 8 December 2023.

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The purpose and general effect of the local law and the subordinate local law is to provide a regulatory framework for the operation of cemeteries and burials outside of a cemetery in the local government area, the burials and disturbance of human remains in a Council cemetery and installing memorials in a Council cemetery.

The purpose and general effect of the local law and the subordinate local law is to provide a regulatory framework for various matters that predominantly occur on private land in the local government area, including:

(a) the declaration of local pests and matters relating to declared local pests;
(b) overgrown land;
(c) the accumulation of objects, materials and organic matter;
(d) backyard fires; and
(e) local annoyance and hazards.

The purpose and general effect of the Local Law and the Subordinate Local Law is to provide a regulatory framework for various activities on public land and roads in the local government area, including:

(a) restricting some activities on public land and roads;
(b) driving vehicles on public land;
(c) the management and use of shopping trolleys;
(d) the maintenance and repair of driveway crossovers and awnings overhanging public land and roads;
(e) the maintenance of road verges; and
(f) guidelines for verge gardens.

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