Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 3.40A

3.40A .         Abandoned vehicle wreck may be taken

        (1)         An employee authorised by a local government for the purpose may remove and impound a vehicle that, in the opinion of the local government, is an abandoned vehicle wreck.

        (2)         If, within 7 days after a vehicle is removed under subsection (1), the owner of the vehicle is identified, the local government is to give notice to that person advising that the vehicle may be collected from a place specified during such hours as are specified in the notice.

        (3)         A notice is to include a short statement of the effect of subsection (4)(b) and the effect of the relevant provisions of sections 3.46 and 3.47.

        (4)         If —

            (a)         after 7 days from the removal of a vehicle under subsection (1), the owner of the vehicle has not been identified; or

            (b)         after 7 days from being given notice under subsection (2), the owner of the vehicle has not collected the vehicle,

                the local government may declare that the vehicle is an abandoned vehicle wreck.

        (5)         In this section —

        abandoned vehicle wreck means a vehicle —

            (a)         that is not operational;

            (b)         the owner of which has not been identified by the local government after using all reasonable avenues to do so; and

            (c)         that has a value that is less than the prescribed value calculated in the prescribed manner.

        [Section 3.40A inserted by No. 49 of 2004 s. 25(1).]