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Bylaws

Bylaws are rules or regulations that are created to control specific activities within New Plymouth District. Bylaws help ensure that our community is safe, healthy and vibrant. Their purposes include:

• Requiring activities to be licensed; to ensure that activities are carried out in a safe and responsible manner.
• Informing the community about acceptable standards of behaviour in public places.
• Promoting a nuisance free environment, i.e. through rules on the keeping of animals.
• Ensuring that the public can safely use public land.

Bylaws are a useful way of dealing with particular local nuisance problems. They focus on issues that the Council determines are significant enough to pass enforcement options.

The New Plymouth District Council Bylaws are made in accordance with the requirements set out in the Local Government Act 2002.

Bylaws in the New Plymouth District Council Bylaw 2008 and 2010

• Introductory Bylaw 2008 and 2010 (To be read in conjunction with all other Bylaw parts)
• Amendments
• Bylaw 2010: Part 2 Dog Control
• Bylaw 2010: Part 3 Liquor Control 
• Bylaw 2010: Part 4 Brothels (Location and Signage) and Commercial Sex Premises (Signage)
• Bylaw 2010: Part 5 Speed Limits
• Bylaw 2010: Part 6 Beauty Therapy, Tattooing and Skin Piercing
  
• Bylaw 2008: Part 1 Introductory
• Bylaw 2008: Part 2 Animals
• Bylaw 2008: Part 3 Cemeteries and crematorium
• Bylaw 2008: Part 3a Cemeteries and crematorium (Supplementary to Part 3 Cemeteries and crematoria New Plymouth District Council Bylaw 2008) 
• Bylaw 2008: Part 4 Fire Prevention and Smoke Nuisance (see also Regional Air Quality Plan) (Amended 1 March 2011)
• Bylaw 2008: Part 5 Public Places
• Bylaw 2008: Part 6 Recreation and cultural facilities
• Bylaw 2008: Part 7 Signs
• Bylaw 2008: Part 8 Skateboards
• Bylaw 2008: Part 9 Solid waste
• Bylaw 2008: Part 10 Stock control
• Bylaw 2008: Part 11 Trade Waste
• Bylaw 2008: Part 12 Trading in public places
• Bylaw 2008: Part 13 Traffic
• Bylaw 2008: Part 14 Wastewater
• Bylaw 2008: Part 15 Water supply
• Part XXXVI Airport (Amendment 3 1962)

Regional Air Quality

• Regional Air Quality Plan Defined Urban Areas Map (26 pages 3.82MB PDF)

Expiry of Part 6 Food Safety Bylaw

Under the proposed Food Act 2010 territorial authority bylaws relating to food safety will be repealed and a national grading system will be implemented under regulation. It is also recommended that food safety training and the recognition of competencies will be part of the new structure.

Pending this legislation, the Council has allowed the current Food Safety Bylaw to expire as of 1 July 2010.
Enquiries regarding the expiry or the pending Food Act 2010 should be directed to our Environmental Health Team.


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