### Housing (Traffic) By-laws 《房屋(交通)附例》

27. Offences in car parks
(1) No person other than—
(a) an attendant or any person employed at a car park in the course of his duties;
(b) a person driving a vehicle into a car park or a person entering a car park to remove a vehicle therefrom;
(c) a passenger in a vehicle entering a car park or a person intending to leave the car park as a passenger in a vehicle; or
(d) an authorized officer,
shall enter a car park without having first obtained the permission of an attendant or authorized officer on duty at the entrance to the car park.
(2) No person shall remain in a car park after he has been lawfully ordered to leave the car park by an attendant or authorized officer.
(3) No person shall, without lawful authority, mutilate, deface or alter any ticket or replacement ticket.
(3A) No person in a car park shall—
(a) smoke;
(b) without lawful excuse be in possession of any ticket or replacement ticket which is mutilated, defaced or altered; or
(c) fail to give his name and address to an attendant or authorized officer when required to do so.
(4) No person shall, without lawful authority, tamper with or interfere with a vehicle in a car park.
(5) Any person who contravenes this by-law commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1. (E.R. 3 of 2021)
(L.N. 418 of 1984)

28. Attendants
(1) The Authority may appoint any person to be an attendant of a car park.
(2) Every attendant shall carry such evidence, under the hand of an authorized officer, of his appointment as an attendant as shall be approved by the Authority.
(3) Every attendant in a car park shall produce to any person in the car park having reasonable grounds for asking for the same, such evidence of his appointment as an attendant.

29. Impounding, removal and storage of vehicles
(1) The Authority or an authorized officer may, for the purposes of section 25B of the Ordinance, impound or remove a vehicle in such manner as the Authority or the authorized officer thinks fit.
(2) A vehicle that is removed under section 25B of the Ordinance may be stored in such place as may be provided by the Authority for that purpose.

### Housing (Traffic) By-laws 《房屋(交通)附例》

30. Impounding, removal and storage charges
The charges payable to the Authority under section 25B(4) of the Ordinance shall be—
(a) for impounding a vehicle, $320;
(b) for removing a vehicle, $420;
(c) for storing a vehicle, $110 for every day after the first day during which the vehicle is detained.
(L.N. 120 of 1981; L.N. 418 of 1984; L.N. 12 of 1990; L.N. 292 of 1994)

31. Duplicates and transfers of passes
(1) Where a car park pass or parking place pass is lost, destroyed or accidentally defaced, an application for a duplicate of such pass may be made to the Authority, and if the Authority is satisfied as to the reason for the application it may, upon payment of such fee as the Authority may fix, issue a duplicate pass which shall have the same validity as the original pass.
(2) Where a car park pass or parking place pass issued in respect of a vehicle is to be transferred for use in respect of another vehicle, an application for such transfer may be made to the Authority and the Authority may, upon production to it of the pass and payment of such fee as the Authority may fix, transfer the pass and shall enter in the pass the registration mark of the vehicle in respect of which the pass is transferred.

32. Offence to interfere with signs or road markings
(1) No person without the consent of the Authority shall—
(a) move, damage, or interfere in any way with, any sign erected under these by-laws; or
(b) obscure, deface, alter or obliterate any road marking placed by the Authority on or in a restricted road or car park.
(2) Any person who contravenes this by-law commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1. (E.R. 3 of 2021)
(L.N. 418 of 1984)

32A. False statements
Any person who knowingly makes a statement which is false or misleading as to a material particular—
(a) in furnishing any information under by-law 8(5A) or 26(4A); or
(b) in giving his name and address under by-law 8(5B), 26(5) or 27(3A),
commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1.
(L.N. 418 of 1984; E.R. 3 of 2021)

### Housing (Traffic) By-laws 《房屋(交通)附例》

33. Presumption as to signs or road markings
A sign erected on, in or near, or a road marking placed on or in a restricted road or car park which is similar to a sign or road marking specified in these by-laws shall be deemed to be a sign or road marking in accordance with these by-laws and to have been lawfully so erected or placed unless the contrary is proved, and the fact that a sign or road marking differs slightly in size, colour or type from a specified sign or road marking shall not prevent such sign or road marking from being a specified sign or road marking so long as the general appearance of the sign or road marking is not thereby materially impaired.
(L.N. 418 of 1984)

34. Repair of vehicles
(1) Subject to paragraph (3), no person shall carry out or cause or permit to be carried out on a vehicle in a parking place or car park any maintenance or repair or be in a parking place or car park for the purpose of carrying out such maintenance or repair.
(2) Any person who contravenes this by-law commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1. (E.R. 3 of 2021)
(3) It shall be a good defence to any proceedings under this by-law to prove that any maintenance or repair was necessary to enable the vehicle to be removed from the parking place or car park.
(L.N. 418 of 1984)

35. Limitation of liability
The exercise by the Authority of its functions under by-laws 5 and 14 shall not render the Authority or the Government subject to any liability in respect of the loss of or damage to any vehicle in a parking place or car park or the contents of any such vehicle.
(L.N. 418 of 1984)