#13172
Sir Humphrey
Strataguru

    We have dealt with a few apparently abandoned cars. The process differed depending on various factors. 

    1) the car was on common property. One phone call to the police fixed it because it was listed as stolen. 

    2) the car was not stolen but on the bit of 'our' road that is actually a public road. A phone call to 'Canberra connect' (general local govt. enquiries line) fixed it. They attached a warning notice and took the car away some time later. 

    3) the car was on common property, the police said it was not reported as stolen but it looked abandoned, had not moved for a years or so. Local govt. advised that we would have to follow a process outlined in the 'uncollected goods act'-fairly complex. We put a notice in the newsletter and it turned out to belong to a tenant who bought it for a relative just before the relative got ill etc. He still had plans for it and was quite entitled to park it in the general parking area. Eventually the car was fixed up and left.