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@excathedra said:
I agree arbitrary confiscation, especially if the owners are known, is not acceptable, but there do appear to be means for removal of abandoned goods after a suitable interval.
Does anybody actually read my column? I guess not – so here’s another link to it. It covers the confiscation and distribution of bikes to charities.
But for those of you who don’t need to know all that, unlike the Residential Tenancies Act, the current strata laws don’t have a provision for abandoned goods but the new laws will – or at least there will be provisions for regulations covering this (see below).
It’s hard to see that they will stray far from the tenancies regulations which allow landlords to give fair warning that they are going to dispose of abandoned goods, sell the goods once the deadline is up and then give the tenant the proceeds, minus the cost of the sales, if they turn up later. For that reason, many landlords and owners corps give the bikes to charity because it is less complicated and …. well … it’s just a good thing to do.
But first you need to have a bike audit and to do that … Look, just read the column. You know you want to.
125 Disposal of abandoned goods on common property
The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the following matters: (a) conferring power on an owners corporation to store or dispose of, or authorise the disposal of, goods left on common property, (b) notices to owners and other persons as to disposal or proposed disposal of goods by an owners corporation, (c) the passing of title to any goods on disposal by an owners corporation, (d) the payment of the proceeds of disposal of goods by an owners corporation, (e) conferring jurisdiction on the Tribunal to make directions and orders relating to the disposal of goods, including orders for the payment of compensation and as to the payment of the costs of disposing of goods.