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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 363.71
ADVERTISEMENTS ON STREET FURNITURE
( MOSTA LOCAL COUNCIL) BYE-LAWS
4th June, 2001
LOCAL COUNCIL BYE-LAW 39/8/2001.
Citation.
Furniture (Mosta Local Council) Bye-Laws.
Interpretation.
Cap. 363.
"advertisement" means any type of promotion whether
commercial or otherwise, and includes a notice or any other thing
used for the same purpose;
"applicant" means the person who applies to the Council under
the provisions of bye-law 3.2;
"contractor" means the person who has been authorised by the
Council to display, fix or place any advertisement on any street
furniture under the provisions of bye-law 3.1;
"Council" means the Mosta Local Council;
"street furniture" means any object, movable or immovable,
which is the Council’s property or is under its responsibility and
which although would not substantially form part of the road,
pavement, garden or other public area, would be placed in such
area or fixed to it, or even placed on it, and includes dustbins,
benches, planters, boundary walls, walls, columns, poles, trees,
roundabouts, central strips and traffic islands.
Authorisation to 
advertise on street 
furniture.
3.1 Subject to any permit, authorisation, or licence required
under any law, no person shall display, fix or place any
advertisement on any street furniture within the Mosta locality
boundary without the written authorisation of the Council.
3.2 Authorisation may be granted either after a written
application to the Council or else after a public call made by the
Council for applications to be submitted:
Provided that the authorisation shall be deemed void if
applicant fails to comply with the requirements established in the
guidelines issued, or which may be issued from time to time by the
Council in terms of article 33(1)( g ) of the Act:
Provided also that the guidelines shall be incorporated in
the contract document which shall regulate the authorisation
granted by the Council to the contractor in terms of bye-law 3.3.
3.3 Following a public call by the Council, the authorisation of
the Council shall take the form of a contract in accordance with the
regulations and procedures applicable to Local Councils.
Such a contract shall be valid for a period of one year
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which may be renewed for further periods of one year each by
means of a contract. In every case the Council reserves the right to
refuse to renew the contract.
3.4 The Council may, on awarding the contract mentioned in
bye-law 3.3, authorise the contractor to use the space where
advertisement may be displayed on street furniture, even by selling
the mentioned space to third parties. In such a case, the third parties
would not require the Counci1’s authorisation:
Provided that the contractor shall not use or sell the space
for any advertisement that is prohibited by law or in terms of the
contract.
3.5 For every authorisation granted by the Council according
to these Bye-Laws there shall be paid a fee as established in the
Schedule:
Provided that for any authorisation granted by the Council
following a public call, the fee due to the Council shall be that
offered in the tender document which has been accepted.
3.6 For every authorisation granted, the Council has the right
to request a deposit of money by way of guarantee.
3.7 Notwithstanding the authorisation granted under these
Bye-Laws, the person to whom authorisation is given is personally
responsible to obtain any permit or licence required under any other
law.
3.8 The Council may grant authorisation in terms of these Bye-
Laws to voluntary organisations that operate from the locality, or to
non-governmental organisations listed in the Eighth Schedule to
the Act, after a written request to advertise activities or public
notices free of charge is received.
3.9 Any authorisation granted under these Bye-Laws shall be
subject, amongst other conditions, to the condition that the
advertisement shall be removed within one week from the expiry
date of the authorisation. In the event of non-compliance, the
person responsible for removing such adverts shall be guilty of a
contravention.
3.10 If, in the opinion of the Council, any advertisement is in
breach of any law or any provision of the contract as indicated in
bye-law 3.4, this shall be removed as soon as requested by the
Council. In the event of non-compliance, the responsible person
shall be guilty of a contravention.
3.11 If, following a request for the removal of an advertisement
as indicated in bye-laws 3.9 and 3.10, there is non-compliance, the
Council shall have the right to remove the advertisement at the
expense of the contractor.
Penalty. 4. Every person who is in breach of one of the provisions of
these Bye-Laws or any condition of the authorisation given by
virtue of these Bye-Laws, shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine
( ammenda ) of twenty liri (Lm20) for such contravention, and to a
further fine ( ammenda ) of five liri (Lm5) for every day during
which one of the provisions of these Bye-Laws or any condition of
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the authorisation is breached.
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SCHEDULE
(Bye-law 3.5)
Fees due for Advertisements on Street Furniture
TABLE A
Squares, roundabouts and main roads (as indicated in Table C)
Size Fee Due for Every Day
Up to 0.5 square metre Lm 0.75
Up to 1.0 square metre Lm 1.00
Up to 2.0 square metres Lm 1.50
Exceeding 2.0 square metres Lm2.00 per day (up to a maximum of Lm80)
TABLE B
Secondary Roads (those not indicated in Table C)
Size Fee Due for Every Day
Up to 0.5 square metre Lm 0.55
Up to 1.0 square metre Lm 0.85
Up to 2.0 square metres Lm 1.25
Exceeding 2.0 square metres Lm2.00 per day (up to a maximum of Lm80)
TABLE C
Squares, roundabouts and main roads
Eucharistic Congress Street Fort Street
Constitution Street Civil Defence Street
Main Street Durumblat Street
Valletta Road Rotunda Square
Independence Avenue All the Playing Fields
Nicolò Isouard Street
