The ACT Government is to enact new legislation to make it easier to clean graffiti from private properties.
It is part of a broader strategy combating graffiti vandalism to be released in draft form next month.
ACT Urban Services Minister Bill Wood says clean up crews currently require written permission from property owners and that often means long delays.
"We want the ability to remove it, leaving the paintwork pretty much the same without having to get that permission first," Mr Wood said.
"That would get rid of graffiti rapidly and won't be a long drawn-out process."
Opposition Urban Services spokesman Greg Cornwell has welcomed the legislation but says the Government should go further and ban spray can sales to under 18-year-olds.
"It's a good step, but I'd like to see them go further and support my ban on spray can sales to under eighteens," Mr Cornwell said.
"The amendments that they are putting forward are borrowed from New South Wales, they can borrow the spray can legislation as well.
"If we don't ban them [spray cans] then it will mean people will be able to come across the border from Queanbeyan and Yass and purchase them in the ACT.
"I don't believe that's a good neighbour policy so far as vandalism in NSW is concerned."