Bylaws
On this page you can review Tasman District Council bylaws, the rules or regulations created to control specific activities within the District. Bylaws help ensure that our community is safe, healthy and vibrant. Their purposes include:
- Requiring activities to be licensed; to ensure that activities are carried out in a safe and responsible manner.
- Informing the community about acceptable standards of behaviour in public places.
- Promoting a nuisance free environment, i.e. through rules on keeping animals.
- Ensuring that the public can safely use public land.
Bylaws are a useful way of dealing with particular local nuisance problems. They focus on issues that the Council determines are significant enough to pass enforcement options.
The Tasman District Council Consolidated Bylaw was made in accordance with the requirements of the Local Government Act 2002, and contains the following bylaws: