Waitakere City has a team of Parking Enforcement Officers who are responsible for enforcing both Council bylaws as well as offences that form part of the road transport laws of New Zealand.
Traffic Regulations 1976 Regulation 123 Parking signs –
(1) Every controlling authority which imposes a parking restriction on any road shall provide and maintain appropriate parking signs to indicate the restriction and its extent.
Traffic Regulations 1976 Regulation 123. Parking signs – (1) Every controlling authority which imposes a stopping restriction on any road shall indicate the restriction and its extent.
Traffic Regulations 1976 Regulation108 No-stopping lines. At any place where a controlling authority has prohibited the kerbside stopping of vehicles all times, drivers may be advised of this prohibition by the marking and maintaining of a broken yellow line.
Traffic Regulations 1976/ Regulation 35(2) No person, shall stop a vehicle on a road at any time (even if they are still in it) So as to obstruct entry to or exit from any place used or appearing to be used as a vehicle entrance to or exit from land fronting a roadway; and for the purposes of this paragraph a vehicle parked alongside any part of a kerb crossing provided for a vehicle entrance or exit or within 1 metre of the prolongation of the side of a vehicle entrance or exit shall be deemed to be obstructing entry or exit.
Traffic Regulations 1976 Regulation 109 Special parking areas
– A controlling authority may designate any area of a road way as a bus stop. The Waitakere City Council sets aside special parking area reserved specifically for Buses only. An (omni)bus means a passenger-service vehicle the body of which is designed for the carriage of both seated and standing passengers. Bus stops in Waitakere City are designated for that specific class of passenger-service vehicles that are setting down or uplifting passengers. Even buses are not allowed to park within bus stops. Bus stop offences are able to be enforced 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.
Traffic Regulations 1976 Regulation 109. Special parking areas – A controlling authority may designate any area of a road way as a taxi stand.
The Traffic Regulations 1976 define a goods vehicle as follows.
Regulation 2. “Goods – service vehicle” or “goods vehicle” means a motor vehicle designed exclusively or principally for the carriage of goods.
The Traffic Regulations 1976 further state:
Regulation 35(2) No person, being the driver or in charge of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park that vehicle on a road, whether attended or unattended-On any part of a roadway reserved by a controlling authority as a loading zone, the location of which is indicated by the controlling authority by the erection of the appropriate parking sign – if the vehicle is not of the class (if any) specified on the sign.
Traffic Regulations 1976
(i) So that any other stopped motor vehicle is located between their vehicle and the nearest edge of the roadway.
Traffic Regulations 1976 Regulation 35(2) – No person, being the driver or in charge of any vehicle shall stop, stand, or park that vehicle on a road whether attended or unattended –
(j)Otherwise than parallel with the direction of the roadway and with the left side of the vehicle as close as is practicable to the left side of the road.
Traffic regulations 1976 - Regulation 35 (2)
No person, being the driver or in charge of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park that vehicle on a road, whether attended or unattended –
On a flush median:
Traffic Regulations 1976 Regulation 37. Use of motor-vehicle lights - (5) No person shall park or leave any goods-service vehicle (being a heavy motor vehicle or a vehicle fitted with a flat deck or tray fitted for the carriage of goods, whether or not it is fitted with sideboards and tailboards) on any roadway during the hours of darkness, unless it displays to the rear a red light visible at a distance of 100 metres.
Traffic Regulations 1976 Regulation 57. Compliance with equipment requirements – No person shall operate any motor vehicle that is required to be equipped with any equipment specified in these regulations and in accordance with these regulations.
Land Transport Act 1998
Section 6 – Vehicles to be safe and operated in compliance with rules – (2) If the regulations or the rules require a vehicle to have current evidence of vehicle inspection, a person may not operate the vehicle on a road without the appropriate current evidence of vehicle inspection (as the case may require).
(4) Evidence of vehicle inspection must be displayed on the vehicle to which it applies.
Section 34. Contravention of section 6 - (1) A person commits an offence if the person
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(b) Operates a vehicle on a road without displaying current evidence of vehicle inspection.
Transport (Vehicle and Driver Registration and Licensing) Act
Section 5 - Motor vehicles to be registered and licensed - (1) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, no person shall use any motor vehicle on any road unless -
(b) The current licence issued for that vehicle is affixed and displayed on the vehicle in the manner prescribed.
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