South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered Acts4—Insertion of sections 86 and 86A
After section 85 insert:
86—Council may determine that ticket for parking be obtained without fee
If a council has installed, or determined that it will install, permissive parking signs to apply to a length of road or an area, the council may (in addition to any other action that it may be empowered to take by or under this Act)—
(a) determine that a ticket must be obtained for parking in the length of road or the area through the operation of parking ticket-vending machines installed or to be installed in or near the length of road or area without payment of a fee; or
(b) vary or revoke a determination made under this section.
86A—Parking where ticket required without payment of fee
(1) This section applies to a driver who parks in a length of road, or in an area, to which a permissive parking sign applies if—
(a) information on or with the sign indicates that a ticket must be obtained through the operation of a parking ticket-vending machine for parking in the length of road or area; and
(b) information on or with the sign or the machine indicates that the ticket may be obtained without the payment of a fee.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)
—
(a) if a sign displays the words "FREE PARKING" together with a requirement (however expressed) for a ticket to be obtained—
(i) the sign will be taken to be a permissive parking sign for the purposes of the Australian Road Rules
to which Part 20 of the Rules applies; and
(ii) the words will be taken to indicate that a ticket must be obtained through the operation of a parking ticket-vending machine without payment of a fee;
(b) if a permissive parking sign displays the word "FREE TICKET" or such other words as may be prescribed by regulation, the words will be taken to indicate that a ticket must be obtained through the operation of a parking ticket-vending machine without payment of a fee.
(3) A driver referred to in subsection (1)
must obtain a ticket from a parking ticket-vending machine in or near the length of road or area.
Maximum penalty: $1 250.
(4) For the purposes of this section, a driver referred to in subsection (1)
does not obtain a ticket from a parking ticket-vending machine unless the driver, on first stopping the vehicle, promptly—
(a) proceeds to a parking ticket-vending machine in or near the length of road or area; and
(b) obtains a ticket through the operation of the machine; and
(c) complies with any instructions (as to dealing with the ticket or otherwise) on or with the sign, ticket or machine.