18 AUGUST
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
2583

Internal Affairs

Wellington Regional Water Board Act 1972

Wellington Regional Council Bylaw for Forests, Parks and Recreational Areas

Pursuant to section 10 of the Wellington Regional Water Board Act 1972, I hereby approve the Wellington Regional Council Bylaw for Forests, Parks and Recreational Areas made by Special Order of the Wellington Regional Council on the 28th day of June 1994, and confirmed by the council on the 9th day of August 1994, and as published in the Schedule to this notice.

Schedule

Wellington Regional Council Bylaw for Forests, Parks and Recreational Areas

Pursuant to the Local Government Act 1974, Reserves Act 1977, and Wellington Regional Water Board Act 1972, the Wellington Regional Council hereby makes the following bylaws for the control and administration of the various recreational parks and forests it administers.

1. Interpretation

In these bylaws the following terms mean:

• Council
  The Wellington Regional Council.

• Warranted Officer
  A park ranger, Forestry Department ranger, council employee or any other person authorised by a warrant issued by the Manager, Recreation or the Manager, Forestry to enforce the provisions of these bylaws.

• Vehicles
  Includes all types of vehicles however propelled, having 2 or more wheels or supports on which it moves or is moved.

• Vessels
  Includes all types of craft however propelled, which can operate on water.

• Parks
  Any park, walkway or recreational area vested in or under the control of the council.

• Forests
  Includes all indigenous and exotic forests vested in or under the control of the council.

• Stock
  Means any animal, domestic or otherwise and whether attended or unattended.

2. Parks and Forests Open to the Public

(1) Subject to the provisions of these bylaws and the provisions of any management agreement affecting any land not owned but administered by the council, the parks and forests, or parts thereof shall be open to the public at all times except during such times that they shall be closed to the public.

(2) Except with the express permission of a warranted officer, no person shall enter the parks or forests or remain therein during the times when they are closed to the public.

(3) If in the opinion of a warranted officer vehicle access is prejudicial to the interests of security or public safety, the warranted officer may deny access or require any person who has obtained access to leave.

(4) The Manager, Forestry may close any forest area in the interest of public safety during logging operations or at times of extreme fire hazard.

3. Conduct of Park and Forest Users

No person shall obstruct, disturb, or interfere with any other person in the use or enjoyment of any park or forest.

4. Dangerous Weapons

Except with the prior written permission of a warranted officer, no person shall within any park or forest carry or use any weapon or instrument of a dangerous character (including any firearm, bow and arrow, catapult or shanghai).

4.1 Chemicals

Except with the prior written permission of a warranted officer, no person shall within any park or forest carry or use any herbicide, insecticide or pesticide.

5. Throwing Stones, Missiles

No person shall throw any stick, stone or other missile within a park or forest in a manner that may annoy or injure any person, or damage any property.

6. Litter

(1) Litter shall be placed in the receptacles provided for this purpose.

(2) Subject to section (1) of this bylaw, no person shall deposit or throw, bury or burn on any part of a park or forest any litter, rubbish, substance, or article of dangerous or offensive nature, or likely to be of a dangerous or offensive nature.

7. Vehicles and Other Traffic Including Vessels

(1) No person shall drive or ride any animal, or any vehicle, or vessel of any description (whether propelled by mechanical power or not) within a park or forest in a manner which, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, is or might be dangerous to the public or to any person.

(2) No person shall take, ride or drive any animal, or any vehicle, or vessel of any description (whether propelled by mechanical power or not) into or on any areas within a park or forest expressly prohibited by notices, or into or on areas that a warranted officer expressly forbids that person to take the said vehicle, animal or vessel.

8. Parking

(1) No person shall park any vehicle in any place which is designated a no parking area by signs or road markings.

(2) No person shall park or leave parked a vehicle of any description in a manner that may obstruct or hinder other traffic, an entrance, thoroughfare or area being used by the public generally.

(3) Any vehicle found parked as in sections (1) and (2) of this bylaw may be removed to a place of safety at the owner’s expense.

(4) The term park in relation to this bylaw means to stand a vehicle for a period exceeding 5 minutes.

9. Vehicle Maintenance and Removal

(1) No person shall wash, clean, polish, paint, repair, tune or do any vehicle maintenance or mechanical work to a motor vehicle within a park or forest.

(2) Any vehicle found abandoned, or in need of repair, or left unattended during that time when the park or forest is closed to the public, may be removed therefrom to a place of safety at the owner’s expense.

10. Aircraft

(1) Except, in accordance with written permission previously obtained from the Manager, Recreation or Manager, Forestry, no person shall make use of any part of a park or forest for the purpose of the landing or alighting thereon, or the flying therefrom of aircraft of any