National Environment Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, 2008 (Act No. 24 of 2008)Chapter 2 : Coastal ZonePart 3 : Coastal access land20. Responsibilities of municipalities with regard to coastal access land |
| (1) | A municipality in whose area coastal access land falls, must— |
| (a) | signpost entry points to that coastal access land; |
| (b) | control the use of, and activities on, that land; |
| (c) | protect and enforce the rights of the public to use that land to gain access to coastal public property; |
| (d) | maintain that land so as to ensure that the public has access to the relevant coastal public property; |
| (e) | where appropriate and within its available resources, provide facilities that promote access to coastal public property, including parking areas, toilets, boardwalks and other amenities, taking into account the needs of physically disabled persons; |
| (f) | ensure that the provision and use of coastal access land and associated infrastructure do not cause adverse effects to the environment; |
| (g) | remove any public access servitude that is causing or contributing to adverse effects that the municipality is unable to prevent or to mitigate adequately; |
| (h) | describe or otherwise indicate all coastal access land in any municipal coastal management programme and in any municipal spatial development framework prepared in terms of the Municipal Systems Act; |
| (i) | perform any other actions that may be prescribed; and |
| (j) | report to the MEC within two years of this Act coming into force on the measures taken to implement this section. |
| (2) | A municipality may make by-laws for the proper implementation of subsection (1). |