South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts219—Power to assign a name, or change the name, of a road or public
place
(1) A council may
assign a name to a public or private road, or to a public place, or change the
name of a public or private road, or of a public place.
(1a) The council must
assign a name to a public road created after the commencement of this
subsection by land division.
(2) If a council
proposes to change the name of a public road that runs into the area of an
adjoining council, the council must—
(a) give
the adjoining council at least two months notice of the proposed change; and
(b)
consider any representations made by the adjoining council in response to the
notice.
(3) A council—
(a) must
immediately notify the Registrar-General, the Surveyor-General and the
Valuer-General of the assignment of a name, or the change of a name, under
this section; and
(b)
must, on request by the Registrar-General, the Surveyor-General or the
Valuer-General, provide information about the names of roads and public places
in the council's area.
(4) Public notice must
be given of the assigning or changing of a name under subsection (1).
(5) A council must
prepare and adopt a policy relating to the assigning of names under this
section.
(6) A council may at
any time alter its policy, or substitute a new policy.
(7) Public notice must
be given of the adopting or altering of a policy under this section.
(8) A reference in
this section to land division is a reference to the division of an allotment
under the Development Act 1993 or to the dealing with land under the
Roads (Opening and Closing) Act 1991 so as to open a road.