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Bylaws

Bylaws are rules made by local councils which affect the way we live, work and play. They are there to make our district a safe and healthy place. They can protect the public from nuisance; protect, promote and maintain public health and safety; and minimise the potential for offensive behaviour in public places. We develop them in consultation with our communities.

Our Bylaws are only applicable to the Hauraki District. They can be enforced by the Council or other nominated agencies, such as the New Zealand Police.

Our Alcohol in Public Places Bylaw regulates the consumption or possession of alcohol in specified public places, for specified days, times and events. It contains rules around:

  • Locations and times where alcohol is banned, including maps of those areas
  • Temporary alcohol bans
  • How you get dispensation from an alcohol ban
  • The enforcement of the bylaw being the NZ Police
Alcohol bottles and glasses

Our cemeteries bylaw includes rules for using cemeteries that we own or are responsible for, and includes Services Cemeteries. Our bylaw contains rules around:

  • Reserving a place for burial
  • Transferring a burial plot reservation
  • How we charge fees
  • Service responsibilities
  • Days and hours of services and burials
  • Installing and removing monuments and headstones
  • Types of tributes that can be placed and where
  • Carrying out work in our cemeteries
  • Planting vegetation
  • Using vehicles
  • Burial of poor persons
  • Behaviour in our cemeteries
  • Bringing animals to our cemeteries
Cemetery

Our dog control bylaw promotes the control of dogs in public places and on private property to minimise danger, distress, or nuisance caused by the keeping of dogs to the public. It should be read in conjunction with our Dog Control Policy.

Our bylaw contains rules around:

  • When dogs should be on their leash
  • Where and when dogs can be exercised off their leash
  • Places dogs aren’t allowed
  • Where you can take your dog on the Hauraki Rail Trail
  • Number of dogs allowed to be kept
  • Fencing requirements for dangerous dogs
  • Roaming, barking or howling dogs
  • Picking up your dog’s droppings
  • Impounding and neutering of dogs
Dog control

Our drainage bylaw puts controls in place to assist with our drainage activities in rural and urban areas. It does not apply to any Waikato Regional Council drains or assets. Our bylaw includes rules around:

  • Protecting our stopbanks, floodgates and pumps
  • Privately owned drains
  • Building, planting and grazing near our drains
  • Construction of crossings
  • Keeping our drains clear from debris
  • Fencing of drains
  • Taking or adding water to our drains
  • Inspection and maintenance we might need to do
  • Requests to maintain drains without the use of herbicide
  • Consents and fees
Drainage

Our food grading bylaw is to protect and promote public health by requiring food businesses registered with us that operate subject to a Food Control Plan to display a food grading certificate for public information. It contains our criteria for grading food businesses.

Food grade A+

A+ graded businesses provide an excellent level of confidence that they manage a food control plan, practise excellent food safety, and consistently produce safe and suitable food.

Food grade A

A gradedbusinesses provide a high level of confidence that they manage a food control plan, their practices are good, and they produce safe and suitable food. There may be areas for improvement that do not directly impact food safety, usually around documentation and procedures.

Food grade B

B graded businesses provide a satisfactory level of confidence that they produce safe food. There may be multiple areas for improvement that do not directly impact food safety in the immediate future, particularly around their observed practices. There is potential that food safety could be threatened in the future if improvements to processes and documentation are not resolved.

Food grade D

D graded businesses have been identified as having issues that are likely to result in food being unsafe or unsuitable, and action has been taken as a response. A Food Safety Officer has issued an improvement notice.

Food grade E

E graded businesses have had a critical issue relating to food safety, and have (or are in the process of) being closed by a Food Safety Officer as a result.

Food

Our freedom camping bylaw encourages responsible freedom camping in our district by stating rules for camping in public places. There are maps in the bylaw showing areas where freedom camping is prohibited and where it is allowed.

Freedom camping is prohibited along the Wharekawa Coastline (Seabird Coast), including in the townships of Kaiaua, Whakatīwai and Waharau, unless you are freedom camping in a designated freedom camping area listed in the bylaw and outlined below.

Please note that freedom camping is not permitted on Council reserves, unless it is listed below and you are camping within the designated area.

Our nuisance bylaw contains rules for minimising nuisance in our public spaces and on private property. It contains rules around:

  • Using skating devices, bicycles and mobility scooters in public places
  • Signage in public places
  • Soliciting or carrying out work in a public place
  • Vehicle crossings e.g. a driveway
  • Animals in public places
  • Damaging or interfering with vegetation
  • Electric and barbed wire fencing
  • Horses and vehicles on beaches
  • Slaughter of animals
  • Using our reserves
  • Smoke nuisance
  • Keeping stock, pigs, poultry and bees

Dispensation to keep pigs, poultry or bees

In accordance with the Nuisance Bylaw 2019 written permission for dispensation must be obtained using the application form below, to:

  • Keep up to four pigs in a Low Density Residential Zone
  • Build a pigsty or keep pigs closer than 50 metres to the property boundary in a Low Density Residential Zone
  • Keep more than six head of poultry in an urban area
  • Keep more than 12 head of poultry in a Low Density Residential Zone
  • Keep bees in an urban area or Low Density Residential Zone

We have rules for moving stock in our district on roads that we control. Stock includes cattle, deer, llamas, alpacas, sheep, goats, and any other animal farmed, and dependant on humans for their care. Roads we control may include state highways where NZ Transport Agency has delegated control to us. Our bylaw contains rules around:

  • The need for permits for moving stock over roads
  • Stock movement limits where an underpass may be needed

Our trade waste and wastewater bylaw helps us to regulate discharge of industrial/commercial waste, and the drainage of wastewater (sewage) from households. It contains rules around:

  • Storage and transport of hazardous substances
  • Consents for discharging trade waste and how they will be given
  • Disposal of trade waste from tankers (e.g. septic tank contents or industrial waste)
  • Accidental discharge or spillage of trade waste
  • System of charging fees and invoicing
  • Connecting to our domestic wastewater (sewerage) system
  • Disconnection from our wastewater (sewerage) system
  • Building or excavating over buried services or near public sewers
  • Technical details and requirements for wastewater

Trade Waste and Wastewater Application forms

The following application forms can be filled out electronically.

This bylaw sets the rules for parking in our district and the control of traffic. It applies to any road in the district (but not state highways). It contains rules around:

  • General parking restrictions
  • One-way roads
  • Turning restrictions
  • Heavy vehicle driving and parking restrictions on certain roads during certain times
  • Weight or load restrictions over bridges or culverts

Our waste management bylaw is about keeping the public and our waste contractor safe, and minimising nuisance from kerbside rubbish and recycling. It contains rules around:

  • Containers kerbside waste and recycling collection
  • Public rubbish bins
  • Storing or accumulating waste on your property
  • Using our refuse transfer stations
  • Waste operator and waste management facility operator licensing
  • Events
  • Construction site waste management and minimisation plans
  • Our system of fees and charges

Our water supply bylaw helps to protect our water supply network and our water sources from contamination. It contains rules around:

  • Accessing our water supply
  • Working around buried services
  • Protecting our water sources from contamination
  • Conditions for connecting to our water supply
  • Disconnecting from our water supply
  • Types of water supply we provide, including maps of water supply areas
  • Access points for water supply
  • Water restrictions
  • Water supply for firefighting
  • Water meters and restricting flow
  • Plumbing systems
Water - handheld hose

The Wharves and Boat Ramps bylaw contains rules to help us with the management of our wharf facilities. It includes rules about:

  • Accessing our wharves and boat ramps
  • Berthing of boats or vessels at our wharves
  • Removing vehicles and boats that are causing obstruction

As our wharves and boat ramps are public places, our Nuisance Bylaw also applies to these areas.

Wharf
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