Find out about parking laws and how to avoid receiving an infringement
When parking it is important to refer to the parking signs and abide by the restrictions. The restrictions are designed to ensure parking is fair and equitable for all as well as ensuring traffic flows freely.
The following parking restrictions are frequently used across the City and enforced in accordance with the Parking and Parking Facilities Local Law.
No part of a vehicle can park or stop on or over a footpath or place of refuge for pedestrians.
Vehicles cannot stop or park where signs prohibit the stopping or parking of cars on a verge. If you are parking or stopping on the verge of a home that isn’t yours, you must first obtain permission from the adjoining landowner.
Vehicles cannot park on a road or portion of road where there is a ‘no parking’ sign unless dropping off or picking up passengers or goods.
Vehicles cannot park on a road or part of a road where there is a no stopping sign or is marked with a continuous yellow edge line.
No part of a vehicle can stop or park on a road so the vehicle is on or adjacent to a median strip otherwise than in a parking space or on or within nine metres of any portion of a carriageway bounded on one or both sides by a traffic island.
A person parking a vehicle on a carriageway other than in a parking space shall park:
So that at least three metres of the width of the carriageway lies between the vehicle and the farther boundary of the carriageway, or any continuous line or median strip, or between the vehicle and a vehicle parked on the farther side of the carriageway.
A vehicle cannot park on any portion on a road:
For the purpose of exposing it for sale
If that vehicle is not licensed under the Road Traffic Act
If that vehicle is a trailer or a caravan unattached to a motor vehicle
For the purpose of effecting repairs to it, other than the minimum repairs necessary to enable the vehicle to be moved to a place other than a thoroughfare.
Vehicles cannot stop or park in a public reserve, unless within a parking facility or parking station, or an employee of the City, or has obtained the permission of the local government or an authorised person.
Vehicles cannot park on a road for longer than the time specified by road signs (where applicable)
No parking within one hour when the parking restriction time has expired – a person shall not park that vehicle again in the same thoroughfare on that day unless it has first been removed from the thoroughfare for at least one hour.