The purpose and affect of the following Local Laws is:

Cemeteries

• To provide for the orderly management of the Exmouth Public Cemetery in accordance with established plans and to create offences for inappropriate behavior within the cemetery grounds;
• All persons engaged in the administration of or burying deceased in the Exmouth Public Cemetery, or otherwise providing services to or making use of the cemetery, are to comply with the provisions of these local laws.
• Please click here to view the complete Local Law for Cemeteries.
• Please click here to view the Exmouth Cemetery Guide
• Please click here to view the Exmouth Cemetery Niche Wall Map

Dogs

• To make provisions about the impounding of dogs, to control the number, the manner of keeping those dogs and to prescribe areas on which dogs are prohibited and as dog exercise areas;
• To extend the controls over dogs which exist under the Dog Act 1976.
• Please click here to view the complete Local Law for Dogs.

Property

• To regulate the care, control and management of all property of the local government except thoroughfares;
• To control the use of local government property . Some activities are permitted only under a permit or under a determination and some activities are restricted or prohibited. Offences are created for inappropriate behaviour in or on local government property.
• Please click here to view the complete Local Law for Property.

Standing Orders

• To provide for the orderly conduct of meetings of the council and committees, the manner of making an effective petition to the local government and for the safe custody and use of the common seal;
• The effect of these Standing Orders is that all council and committee meetings, the manner of making a petition to the local government, and the use of the common seal, are to be governed by the Standing Orders unless otherwise provided in the Act or Regulations.
• Please click here to view the complete Local Law for Standing Orders.

Activities on Thoroughfares and Trading in Thoroughfares & Public Places

• To consolidate various local laws relating to activities in thoroughfares and trading in thoroughfares and public places;
• Some activities are prohibited, some activities are permitted only under permit on thoroughfares and public places. Also, the local law enables a local government to require house numbering and the erection of fences in certain circumstances.
• Please click here to view the complete Local Law for Trading in Thoroughfares.

Health

• To control and administer sanitation, housing, general waste food and refuse, nuisances and general pest control, infectious diseases, itinerant food vendor licenses, lodging houses, offensive trades, offences and penalties, schedule and prescribed forms and fees;
• To allow the abovementioned issues to be sufficiently controlled so as to provide and acceptable standard of public health in the community. Clear statutory requirements governing these issues will better protect residents and members of the public passing through the Shire of Exmouth by significantly reducing the risk of exposure to conditions deemed detrimental to the maintenance of public health.
• Please click here to view the complete Local Law for Health.

Fencing

• To enable local government to regulate the minimum standards for fencing within the various planning zones of the Shire and encourage responsible construction and maintain required standards and control of fencing;
• To reduce the risk of public and environmental damage caused by unsatisfactory standards of fencing.
• Please click here to view the complete Local Law for Fencing.
• Please click here for more information regarding Fencing

Parking

• To enable the local government to regulate the parking or standing of vehicles in all or specified thoroughfares and reserves under the care, control and management of the local government; provide for the management and removal of such obstructing vehicles by the local government;
• To encourage responsible parking and maintain vehicular access to all areas within the local government; to reduce the risk of public and environmental damage caused by incorrect standards of parking.
• Please click here to view the complete Local Law for Parking.

Cat Control

• For preventing the keeping of cats so as to be a nuisance or injurious to health;
• To encourage responsible cat ownership; to reduce public and environmental nuisance caused by cats and to promote the effective management of cats.
• Please click here to view the complete Local Law for Cat Control.