NORTH-EAST DISTRICT COUNCIL (ADVERTISEMENT AND HOARDINGS SIGNS) BYE-LAWS

(section 44 read with section 45)

(23rd December, 2022)

ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS

    BYE-LAW

    1.    Citation

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Application

    4.    Exemption

    5.    Application to erect hoarding signs or place advertisement

    6.    Application requirements

    7.    Use of Council property for hoarding and advertising purposes

    8.    Period of permit

    9.    Renewal of permit

    10.    Contents of hoarding and advertisement

    11.    Removal of hoarding and advertisement

    12.    Maintenance of hoarding signs

    13.    Distance of erecting hoarding signs and advertisement

    14.    Furnishing name and address of owner

    15.    Advertisement to be secure

    16.    Obstructing view of traffic

    17.    Appeals

    18.    Offences and penalties

        Schedule 1

        Schedule 2

        Schedule 3

        Schedule 4

        Schedule 5

S.I. 162, 2022.

1.    Citation

    These Bye-laws may be cited as the North-East District Council (Advertisement and Hoardings Signs) Bye-laws.

2.    Interpretation

    In these Bye-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

    "advertising structure" means a structure of any kind or character erected, used, maintained for outdoor advertising purpose upon which any poster, billboard, printing, painting or other advertisement of any kind may be other placed for advertising purpose;

    "authorised officer" means a bye-law enforcement officer, a police officer or any person authorised in writing by the Council for the purpose of giving effect to, or enforcing these Bye-laws;

    "awning sign" means a sign that is permitted at the centres of economic activities in the natural and rural areas of maximum control;

    "commercial area" means an area designated for commercial or business activities;

    "Council" means the North-East District Council;

    "hoarding" means any structure used as an advertisement or used for exhibiting any advertisement;

    "outdoor advertisement" includes any notice board, billboard, placard, poster, or any similar publication placed outside the building or structure for public view and inspection;

    "owner" means a registered owner of any lot or premise, including his or her agents, successors in title or assigns or his or her heirs or any person who is entitled to receive rent in respect of such lot or premise;

    "person" includes natural person, firm, co-operative, partnership, association, limited liability company and corporation;

    "premises" means any building or part of the building, store, shop or other erection on or above the ground and the land occupied by the building, store, shop, or other erection;

    "public place" includes any public way or square or any public or communal land;

    "register" means any register which a Council is required to keep under these Bye-laws;

    "street" includes any highway, and any public bridge, road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether thoroughfare or not;

    "sign" means any card, cloth, paper, metal painted or wooden sign of any character placed for outdoor advertising purpose, or on the ground or any tree in the bush, wall, rock, fence, building structure either privately or publicly owned, other than an advertising structure and for the purposes of these Bye-laws sign does not include any of the following—

    (a)    the official notices issued by any Court of law, public body or officer;

    (b)    notices posted by any public officer in performance of a public duty or by any person in giving any legal notice; and

    (c)    the directional warning or information signs or structures required by or authorised by law;

    "to place" includes maintaining, erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing, gluing, sticking, carving or otherwise fastening, affixing or making visible any advertising displayed on or to the ground or to any tree in the bush, rock, fence, post, wall, building structure or thing;

    "visible" means capable of being seen by any person of normal visual acuity; and

    "zoned area" means any areas which is designated under the Development Plan for a particular land use provided by the Town and Country Planning Act (Cap. 32:09).

3.    Application

    The jurisdiction of these Bye-laws shall apply to all planning areas of the Council.

4.    Exemption

    (1) These Bye-laws shall not apply to—

    (a)    an advertisement on any notice board, billboard, support or framework carried out by a person;

    (b)    a hoarding sign which forms a temporary part of any building operation which shields any work in progress for the purpose of advertising the said premises for sale, or to protect the public from any hazard arising or which may arise from work in progress;

    (c)    a cart or a vehicle which keeps on moving;

    (d)    any hoarding erected on privately owned premises for the purpose of advertising the said premises for sale; and

    (e)    a veranda, balcony and a canopy classified as awning signs and shall include a sign—

        (i)    affixed at a flat level or painted on a parapet wall, balustrade, or railing of a veranda or a balcony,

        (ii)    affixed onto or painted on the face of a veranda or beam over a veranda column or on the face of a roof structure without a wall including a roof covering petrol pumps at a filling station,

        (iii)    suspended below the roof of a veranda or a balcony,

        (iv)    affixed on top of a roof of a veranda, or

        (v)    affixed onto or painted on a pillar, column or post supporting a veranda, a balcony or a roof structure without wall, parapet wall, balustrade, railing or beam.

    (2) The Council may direct the person erecting an advertisement or a hoarding to remove it or reposition it depending on any reasons given under these Bye-laws.

5.    Application to erect hoarding signs or place advertisement