Uniform local laws cover Toowoomba Regional Council operations

Local laws covering council policies including car parking, keeping of animals, swimming pools and caravan park regulations came into force on January 1 this year.
Toowoomba Regional Council now has five local laws and 22 subordinate local laws.
Public submissions informed the streamlining of local laws inherited from the eight former councils.

In March 2008, Toowoomba Regional Council inherited 311 local laws and subordinate local laws. These included 185 model local laws and 126 subordinate local laws.
The process removed inefficiencies, inconsistencies and duplication of local laws across the region. 

The new local laws cover administrative and regulatory procedure and functions which include displaying signs, food hygiene, temporary accommodation facilities, camping grounds, cemeteries, temporary entertainment events, parking regulations, animal management and environmental management.

An additional local law administers council aerodrome operations.
The full list of gazetted local laws and subordinate local laws can be viewed.

Toowoomba Regional Council (TRC) has adopted an all encompassing local law that covers the aerodromes controlled by the Toowoomba Regional Council.

Previously, each of the aerodromes in Millmerran, Pittsworth and Toowoomba were governed by  separate  local laws inherited from the former councils of the regions in which they are situated.

The newly adopted local law is needed to ensure the safety and security of airside and landside activities and it enables Council to set fees and charges for use of the aerodromes.

On September 20, 2011 council agreed that the local law currently governing the Toowoomba Aerodrome be applied to the whole of the TRC area, taking the place of the current local laws governing the aerodromes individually.

The law governing the Toowoomba Aerodrome, Local Law No. 39 (Public Aerodromes)  of Toowoomba City Council is best suited to provide the basis of this new law as it provides a wider scope and addresses more issues than local laws currently governing the other aerodromes in the Toowoomba region.

In order to apply Local Law No. 39 (Public Aerodromes)  of Toowoomba City Council to the whole of the TRC area, it was necessary to make another local law, that is Toowoomba Regional Council Public Aerodromes (Application of Continuing Local Law) Local Law 2011.

Local Law No. 39 (Public Aerodromes) of Toowoomba City Council will be applied to the whole of the TRC area from 31 December 2011.

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