STANDARD BY-LAWS 1 – 19
1. NOISE
An owner or occupier of a lot must not create any noise on the parcel likely to
interfere with the peaceful enjoyment of the owner or occupier of another lot
or of any person lawfully using the common property.
2. VEHICLES
An owner or occupier of a lot must not park or stand any motor or other vehicle
on common property except with the written approval of the owners corporation.
3. OBSTRUCTION OF COMMON PROPERTY
An owner or occupier of a lot must not obstruct lawful use of common property
by any person.
4. DAMAGE TO LAWNS AND PLANTS ON COMMON
PROPERTY
An owner or occupier of a lot must not:
(a) damage any lawn, garden, tree, shrub, plant or flower being
part of or situated on common property, or
(b) use for his or her own purposes as a garden any portion of the
common property.
5. DAMAGE TO COMMON PROPERTY
(1) An owner or occupier of a lot must not mark, paint, drive nails
or screws or the like into, or otherwise damage or deface, any structure that
forms part of the common property without the approval in writing of the owners
corporation.
(2) An approval given by the owners corporation under sub clause
(1) cannot authorise any additions to the common property.
(3) This by-law does not prevent an owner or person authorised by
an owner from installing:
(a) any locking or other safety device for protection of the
owner’s lot against intruders; or
(b) any screen or other device to prevent entry of animals or
insects on the lot; or
(c) any structure or device to prevent harm to children.
(4) Any such locking or safety device, screen, other device or
structure must be installed in a competent and proper manner and must have an
appearance, after it has been installed, in keeping with the appearance of the
rest of the building.
(5) Despite section 62, the owner of a lot must maintain and keep
in a state of good and serviceable repair any installation or structure
referred to in sub clause (3) that forms part of the common property and that
services the lot.
6. BEHAVIOUR OF OWNERS AND OCCUPIERS
An owner or occupier of a lot when on common property must be adequately
clothed and must not use language or behave in a manner likely to cause offence
or embarrassment to the owner or occupier of another lot or to any person
lawfully using common property.
7. CHILDREN PLAYING ON COMMON PROPERTY IN
BUILDING
An owner or occupier of a lot must not permit any child of whom the owner or
occupier has control to play on common property within the building or, unless
accompanied by an adult exercising effective control, to be or to remain on
common property comprising a laundry, car parking area or other area of
possible danger or hazard to children.
8. BEHAVIOUR OF INVITEES
An owner or occupier of a lot must take all reasonable steps to ensure that
invitees of the owner or occupier do not behave in a manner likely to interfere
with the peaceful enjoyment of the owner or occupier of another lot or any
person lawfully using common property.
9. DEPOSITING RUBBISH AND OTHER MATERIAL ON
COMMON PROPERTY
An owner or occupier of a lot must not deposit or throw on the common property
any rubbish, dirt, dust or other material likely to interfere with the peaceful
enjoyment of the owner or occupier of another lot or of any person lawfully
using the common property.
10. DRYING OF LAUNDRY ITEMS
An owner or occupier of a lot must not, except with the consent in writing of
the owners corporation, hang any washing, towel, bedding, clothing or other
article on any part of the parcel in such a way as to be visible from outside
the building other than on any lines provided by the owners corporation for the
purpose and there only for a reasonable period.
11. CLEANING WINDOWS AND DOORS
An owner or occupier of a lot must keep clean all glass in windows and all
doors on the boundary of the lot, including so much as is common property.
12. STORAGE OF INFLAMMABLE LIQUIDS AND OTHER SUBSTANCES
AND MATERIALS
(1) An owner or occupier of a lot must not, except with the
approval in writing of the owners corporation, use or store on the lot or on
the common property any inflammable chemical, liquid or gas or other
inflammable material.
(2) This by-law does not apply to chemicals, liquids, gases or
other material used or intended to be used for domestic purposes, or any
chemical, liquid, gas or other material in a fuel tank of a motor vehicle or
internal combustion engine.
13. MOVING OF FURNITURE & OTHER OBJECTS ON
OR THROUGH COMMON PROPERTY
An owner or occupier of a lot must not transport any furniture or large object
through or on common property within the building unless sufficient notice has
first been given to the executive committee so as to enable the executive
committee to arrange for its nominee to be present at the time when the owner
or occupier does so.
14. FLOOR COVERINGS
(1) An owner of a lot must ensure that all floor space within the
lot is covered or otherwise treated to an extent sufficient to prevent the
transmission from the floor space of noise likely to disturb the peaceful
enjoyment of the owner or occupier of another lot.
(2) This by-law does not apply to floor space comprising a kitchen,
laundry, lavatory or bathroom.
15. GARBAGE DISPOSAL
An owner or occupier of a lot:
(a) must maintain within the lot, or on such part of the common
property as may be authorised by the owners corporation, in clean and dry
condition and adequately covered a receptacle for garbage, and
(b) must ensure that before refuse is placed in the receptacle it
is securely wrapped or, in the case of tins or other containers, completely
drained, and
(c) for the purpose of having the garbage collected, must place the
receptacles within an area designated for that purpose by the owners
corporation and at a time not
more than 12 hours before the time at which garbage is normally collected, and
(d) when the garbage has been collected, must promptly return the
receptacle to the lot or other area referred to in paragraph (a),
(e) must not place anything in the receptacle of the owner or
occupier of any other lot except with the permission of that owner or occupier,
and
(f) must promptly remove any thing which the owner, occupier or
garbage collector may have spilled from the receptacle and must take such
action as may be necessary to clean the area within which that thing was
spilled.
16. KEEPING OF ANIMALS
(1) Subject to section 49(4), an owner or occupier of a lot must
not, without the written approval of the owners corporation, keep any animal on
the lot or the common property.
(2) The owners corporation must not unreasonably withhold its
approval of the keeping of an animal on a lot or the common property.
17. APPEARANCE OF LOT
(1) The owner or occupier of a lot must not, without the written
consent of the owners corporation, maintain within the lot anything visible
from outside the lot that, viewed from outside the lot, is not in keeping with
the rest of the building.
(2) This by-law does not apply to the hanging of any washing,
towel, bedding, clothing or other article as referred to in by-law 10.
18. NOTICE-BOARD
An owners corporation must cause a notice-board to be affixed to some part of
the common property.
19. CHANGE IN USE OF LOT TO BE NOTIFIED
An occupier of a lot must notify the owners corporation if the occupier changes
the existing use of the lot in a way that may affect the insurance premiums for
the strata scheme (e.g. if the change of use results in a hazardous activity
being carried out on the lot, or results in the lot being used for commercial
or industrial purposes rather than residential purposes).