ROAD MANAGEMENT ACT 2004 - SECT 66 Written consent required for placing of specified things on a road or road infrastructure

ROAD MANAGEMENT ACT 2004 - SECT 66

    (1)     Subject to subsection (2), a person must not without the written consent of the relevant coordinating road authority—

        (a)     place any structure, device or hoarding for the exhibition of an advertisement or place any advertisement for exhibition on or over a road; or

        (b)     place any sign or bill on or over a road or on a pole, bus shelter, traffic sign, tree or other object or infrastructure on a road reserve.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

S. 66(2) amended by No. 70/2016 s. 4(1).

    (2)     Subject to subsection (3), subsection (1) does not apply if the placing of the structure, device, hoarding, advertisement, sign or bill is authorised or permitted by or under this Act or by or under any other Act.

S. 66(3) inserted by No. 70/2016 s. 4(2).

    (3)     For the purposes of subsection (2), the placing of a structure, device, hoarding, advertisement, sign or bill referred to in subsection (1) is not authorised or permitted merely because it is exempt from the requirement to obtain a permit under Victoria Planning Provisions approved under Part 1A of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 .