ADVERTISEMENTS ON STREET FURNITURE (SANTA VENERA LOCAL COUNCIL) BYE-LAWS

ADVERTISEMENTS ON STREET FURNITURE

(SANTA VENERA LOCAL COUNCIL)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 363.84

ADVERTISEMENTS ON STREET FURNITURE

(SANTA VENERA LOCAL COUNCIL) BYE-LAWS

19th March, 2002

LOCAL COUNCIL BYE-LAW 58/2/2002, as amended by Legal Notice

425 of 2007.

The title of these Bye-Laws is the Advertisements on Street

Furniture (Santa Venera Local Council) Bye-Laws.

Substituted by

L.N. 425 of 2007.

(Bye-law 3.5)

Fees due for Advertisements on Street Furniture

Size

Fee due

Two Weeks

One Month

One Year

Up to 0.5 square metre

€6.99

€11.65

€46.59

Up to 1.0 square metre

€13.98

€23.29

€116.47

Up to 2.0 square metres

€27.95

€46.59

€232.94

Exceeding 2.0 square metres -

€4.66 per day (subject to a minimum of €93.17).

1

In these Bye-Laws unless the context otherwise requires -

"Act" means the Local Government Act;

"advertisement" means any type of promotion whether

commercial or otherwise, and includes a notice;

"applicant" means the person who applies to the Council under

the provisions of bye-law 3.2;

"contractor" means the person who has been authorised by the

Council to display, fix or place any advertisement on street

furniture under the provisions of bye-law 3.1;

"Council" means Santa Venera Local Council;

"street furniture" means any object, movable or immovable,

which is the Council’s property or is under its responsibility and

which although would not substantially form part of the road,

pavement, garden or other public area, would be placed in such

area or fixed to it, or even placed on it, and includes dustbins, skips

or bins on wheels, bus shelters, benches, planters, boundary walls,

w a l l s , c o l u m n s , t r e e p i t s , v e rg es a n d c e n t r a l r e se r v a t i o n s ,

roundabouts, central strips and traffic islands.

1 Subject to any permit, authorisation, or licence required

u n d e r a n y l a w, n o p e r s o n s h a l l d i s p l a y f i x o r p l a c e a n y

advertisement on any street furniture within the Santa Venera

locality boundary without the written authorisation of the Council.

3.2 Such authorisation may be granted either after a written

application to the Council or else after a public call made by the

Council for applications to be submitted

Provided that the authorisation shall be deemed void if

applicant fails to comply with the requirements established in the

guidelines issued or which may be issued from time to time by the

Council in terms of article 33(1)(g) of the Act

Provided also that the guidelines shall be incorporated in

the contract document which shall regulate the authorisation

granted by the Council to the contractor in terms of bye-law 3.3.

3.3 Following a public call by the Council, the authorisation of

the Council shall take the form of a contract in accordance with the

regulations and procedures applicable to Local Councils.

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Such a contract shall be valid for a period of one year

which may be renewed for a further one year period by means of a

contract. In every case the Council reserves the right to refuse to

renew the contract after having given valid reasons in writing to

any person concerned.

3.4 The Council may, on awarding the contract mentioned in

bye-law 3.3, authorise the contractor to use the space where

advertisement may be displayed on street furniture, even by selling

the mentioned space to third parties. In such a case, third parties

would not require the Council’s authorisation

Provided that the contractor shall not use or sell the space

for any advertisement that is prohibited by the contract, or at a

higher price than that established by the Council by the contract or

with conditions different from those stipulated in the original

contract.

3.5 For every authorisation granted by the Council according

to these Bye-Laws there shall be paid a fee as established in the

Schedule

Provided that for the authorisation granted by the Council

following a public call, the fee entitled to be paid to the Council is

that offered in the tender document which has been accepted.

3.6 Notwithstanding the authorisation granted under these

Bye-Laws, the person to whom authorisation is given is personally

responsible for any permits or licences necessary under any other

law.

3.7 The Council may grant authorisation in terms of these Bye-

Laws to voluntary organisations that operate from the locality, or

non-governmental organisations listed in the Eighth Schedule to

the Act, after the Council receives a written request so as to

advertise activities or public notices without payment.

3.8 Any authorisation granted under these Bye-Laws is subject

amongst other conditions to a condition that the advertisement shall

be removed within one week from the expiry date of the

authorisation. In any case to the contrary, the person responsible

for removing such adverts shall be guilty of a contravention.

Every person who is in breach of one of the provisions of

these Bye-Laws or any condition of the authorisation given by

virtue of these Bye-Laws, shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine

(ammenda) of forty-six euro and fifty-nine cents (€46.59) for such

contravention, and to a further fine (ammenda) of two euro and

thirty-three cents (€2.33) and not more than eleven euro and sixty-

f i v e c e n t s ( € 11 . 6 5 ) f o r e v e r y d a y d u r i n g w h i c h o n e o f t h e

provisions of these Bye-Laws or any condition of the authorisation

is breached.

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