South Australian Repealed Acts South Australian Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
185—NRM authorities may recover certain costs from owners of land
adjoining road reserves
(1) If an NRM
authority carries out on road reserve measures for the destruction or control
of animals or plants of a class to which this section applies, the
NRM authority may, within 3 months, give notice in writing to each owner of
land adjoining the road reserve requiring the owner to pay to the
NRM authority an amount specified in the notice within a period specified in
the notice, being not less than 28 days from the date of the notice.
(2) Subject to subsection (3)
, the amount specified in a notice under subsection (1)
directed to an owner of land must be the amount determined by the
NRM authority to be the costs and expenses incurred by the NRM authority in
carrying out the measures referred to in subsection (1)
on the section of road reserve adjoining the owner's land up to the middle of
the road reserve.
(3) Despite subsection (2)
, an NRM authority may, from time to time, fix a standard charge and determine
the circumstances in which the standard charge is to apply (being a standard
charge not exceeding an amount determined on the basis for the time being
fixed by the Minister), and, if those circumstances apply in relation to an
owner of land, the amount specified in a notice under subsection (1)
directed to that owner will be the standard charge.
(4) If an amount is
not paid by an owner of land within the period within which it is required to
be paid under this section, the owner is liable to pay interest charged at the
prescribed rate per annum on the amount unpaid.
(5) An amount payable
to an NRM authority by an owner of land under this section (including any
interest charge) may be recovered by the NRM authority as a debt.
(6) An NRM authority
may, if it is satisfied that just and proper grounds exists for it to do so,
remit the whole, or part, of any amount payable by a person under this
section.