1.0 Scope
1.1
The purpose of this bylaw is:
- To allow Council to exercise control over burning in the open air in urban areas of the District and prevent smoke from fires in the open causing a nuisance; and
- To enable the Council to prevent the spread of fires involving vegetation.
1.2
Council has a further avenue of control over smoke nuisance in the Nuisances provisions of the Health Act and persons responsible for causing a smoke nuisance may be prosecuted under the provisions of either the Health Act or the bylaw.
1.3
Regional Councils have responsibility for discharges into air. Consents and approvals may be required from Regional Councils for discharges into air from fires in the open air.
1.4
This bylaw shall be known and cited as the “Matamata-Piako District Council Fires in the Open Air Bylaw 2014” and shall come into force on 9 July 2014.
1.5
This bylaw is made pursuant to section 146(c) of the Local Government Act 2002 and section 20 of the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1977.
