Health, Safety and Amenity Local Law 2009

Brisbane City Council’s Health, Safety and Amenity Local Law 2009 regulates activities which affect the liveability of our suburbs and work places.

Health and safety

Council places importance on values such as keeping Brisbane's air clean, our natural environment safe, and controlling waste for our community. Under the law, Council manages:

• lighting fires and backyard burning
• standards for rubbish bins and commercial waste containers
• vehicle maintenance and camping on roads
• hazardous fencing
• maintenance of ornamental lakes, ponds and pools

Amenity

A number of the local law provisions are about managing amenity. Under the law, Council manages:

• abandoned shopping trolleys
• graffiti on private property
• community newspapers and unsolicited advertising material
• unsightly objects, materials or vegetation
• distribution of fly poster signs 
• maintenance of pools, ornamental ponds and lakes

More information

For more information you can contact Council or download:

• Managing Brisbane's Health, Safety and Amenity (PDF - 60kb)
• Health, Safety and Amenity Local Law 2009 fact sheet (PDF - 1.1Mb)*

* Due to the large file size, this document may take a while to download.