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City of Campbell River | Environmental Protection Bylaw No. 3551, 2014 Consolidated to 3852, 2022
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
BYLAW
BYLAW 3551, 2014
Consolidated Version
City of Campbell River | Environmental Protection Bylaw No. 3551, 2014 Consolidated to 3852, 2022
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City of Campbell River | Environmental Protection Bylaw No. 3551, 2014 Consolidated to 3852, 2022
Environmental Protection
Bylaw No. 3551, 2014
Revised March 28, 2022
Consolidated for Convenience Purposes to
include Bylaw 3551, 3674, 3852
P U R P O S E
This bylaw sets out to regulate, impose requirements and restrict/prohibit
activities in order to protect the natural environment and ecological systems
related to watercourses, trees, soils, lands and outstanding natural features
(visual assets) in the City of Campbell River.
In addition to the requirements set out in this bylaw, provincial and federal
environmental regulations also regulate activities that have the potential to
negatively affect the environment. Every person is advised to check with the
relevant government agencies to ensure all of the environmental requirements
by these agencies are fulfilled.
ADOPTED November 4, 2014
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C O N T E N T S
PART 1:
Title ................................................................................................................................... 5
PART 2:
Definitions ....................................................................................................................... 5
PART 3:
Watercourses and the Storm Drainage System ........................................................ 8
Modifying Watercourses and Storm Drainage Systems .................................................... 8
Development Adjacent to Watercourses ......................................................................... 9
Dumping Adjacent to Watercourses ............................................................................... 9
Fouling Watercourses and Storm Drainage Systems ..................................................... 10
Oil and Grit Interceptor Requirements .......................................................................... 10
PART 4:
Bald Eagle Nest Trees and Nest Tree Habitat .......................................................... 10
Cutting Down, Removal or Modification of Bald Eagle Nest Trees .............................. 10
Damaging Bald Eagle Nest Trees ..................................................................................... 11
Development Adjacent to Bald Eagle Nest Trees ............................................................ 11
PART 5:
Noxious Weeds and Invasive Plants .......................................................................... 12
PART 6:
General Exemptions ......................................................................................................13
PART 7:
Severability .....................................................................................................................13
PART 8:
Enforcement, Cost Recovery and Penalties ..............................................................13
Reconsideration ............................................................................................................... 14
Penalties ........................................................................................................................... 14
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The Council of the City of Campbell River enacts as follows:
PART 1:
Title
1.1 This bylaw may be cited for all purposes as Environmental Protection Bylaw No. 3551, 2014.
PART 2:
Definitions
Amd Bylaw 3674 Jul/18 Def'ns added
2.1 In this bylaw: unless the context otherwise requires:
Bald Eagle
Nest Tree
means any tree with a history of nest building by Bald Eagles including but not
limited to:
a. a tree with an existing nest, a tree with a nest under construction, or a
tree with an incomplete nest in it, at any time of the year whether or
not the nest is in use, whether Bald Eagles are present, or whether it is
a registered tree in any type of City, provincial or federal government
inventory;
b. a registered nest tree without a nest that appears on any City, provincial
or federal government inventory.
Bald Eagle
Nest Tree
Habitat
means the ground and vegetation within a buffer area of 60 metres measured
as a radius from the base of a Bald Eagle Nest Tree or a designated buffer as
identified by covenant or as determined by a Qualified Environmental
Professional under an approved City Development Permit.
Channelized
Stream
means a structure that forms part of an historic natural drainage pattern with
larger intact headwaters or significant sources of Groundwater and in which
water flows constantly, intermittently or at any time.
Deleterious
Material
means any of the following that when introduced into a Storm Drainage System
or Watercourse would Foul it, including but not limited to:
a. Pesticides, fertilizers, soaps, detergents, household and commercial
grade cleaning compounds, paints, solvents, chemicals, chlorinated
water, waste oil, grease or any material or substance which is a
Hazardous Material, contaminant, toxic substance, or reportable
substance that is identified or described in or defined by any applicable
statute, regulation or law, including any substance that violates the
Fisheries Act or the Waste Management Act; and
b. any sediment, rock, gravel, sand, clay, silt, earth, acid rock drainage,
construction or excavation wastes, cement, concrete, exposed
aggregate wash water or wood waste including wood chips or shavings.
Development
means any of the following:
a. removal, alteration, disruption or destruction of vegetation;
b. disturbance of soil, including the removal and deposition of soil;
c. construction, erection or demolition of buildings and structures;
d. flood protection works;
e. construction of roads, trails, docks, wharves and bridges;
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f.
provision and maintenance of sewer and water services;
g. development of drainage systems;
h. development of utility corridors;
i.
subdivision as defined under provincial enactment.
Development
Permit
means a permit granted under section 920 of the Local Government Act.
Discharge
means to directly or indirectly introduce a substance by spilling, disposing of,
dumping, placing, washing, abandoning, depositing, leaking, seeping, pouring,
draining, emptying, or by any other means.
Ditch
means an entirely constructed structure or facility used or intended to be used
to convey Stormwater flows, with seasonal flows and no significant headwaters
or springs.
Drip Line
means a circle on the ground around the trunk of a tree, the radius of which is
the distance between the outermost branches and the centre point of the
trunk, or its vertical extension.
Environmental
Protection
Official
means any person in the position of General Manager, Building Inspector,
Bylaw Enforcement Officer, Environmental Coordinator, Planner, Roads and
Drainage Supervisor, Transportation Manager, Transportation Specialist and
Subdivisions Engineer or Fire Chief, or their deputy or a person designated by
Council to act in the place of any of these persons, and includes an RCMP
Officer.
Fouling
means to Discharge a Deleterious Material into a Watercourse, Storm Drainage
System or Groundwater.
General
Manager
means the person in the position of General Manager of Operations for the City
and includes the Deputy General Manager and any person designated by
Council to act on their behalf for the purpose of this bylaw.
Groundwater
means the mass of gravity water that occupies the subsoil and upper bedrock
zone; the water occupying the zone of saturation below the soil-water zone.
Hazard Tree
means a tree identified in writing by a Qualified Environmental Professional as
having defect or other condition sufficient to significantly increase the risk that
all or part of the tree will fall resulting in injury to persons or damage to
property.
Hazardous
Material
means PCB wastes, biomedical wastes, wastes containing dioxin, waste oil,
waste asbestos, waste pest control product containers and wastes containing
pest control products including wastes produced in the production of treated
wood products using pest control products, leachable toxic waste, waste
containing tetrachloroethylene, wastes listed in Schedule 7 of the Hazardous
Waste Regulation (B.C. Reg. 63/88) , waste that is corrosive because it has a pH
factor of less than 2.0 or greater than 12.5 measured directly when the waste is
liquid or measured in a 50% distilled water mixture or solution by mass when
the waste is solid, waste containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon or matter
defined or prescribed as dangerous goods under the Transport of Dangerous
Goods Act (British Columbia).
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High Water
Mark
means the boundary of a Watercourse as ascertained and certified in writing
by a Qualified Environmental Professional.
Invasive Plant
means any Invasive Plant listed in Schedule "A" of this Bylaw and includes the
seeds of an Invasive Plant.
Motor Vehicle
Parking Area
means an area for the parking of vehicles, other than an area for residential use
consisting of less than five (5) vehicle parking stalls.
Noxious Weed
means any Noxious Weed listed in Schedule "A" of this Bylaw and includes the
seeds of a Noxious Weed.
Official
Community
Plan
means the Official Community Plan for the City, as amended from time to time.
Owner
means, in regard to real property,
a. the registered owner of an estate in fee simple;
b. the tenant for life under a registered life estate;
c. the registered holder of the last registered agreement for sale;
d. the holder or occupier of land held in the manner referred to in section
228 or 229 of the Community Charter;
and is deemed to include any person who is in lawful possession or occupancy
of any building situated on the land.
Pesticide
means any chemical-based material that is used to control pests, including
herbicides, insecticides, rodenticides and fungicides.
Qualified
Engineering
Professional
means a person who is registered or licensed as a Professional Engineer under
the Engineers and Geoscientists Act.
Qualified
Environmental
Professional
means an applied scientist or technologist, acting alone or together with
another qualified professional, if:
a.
the individual is registered and in good standing in British Columbia
with an appropriate professional organization constituted under Act,
acting under the association's code of ethics and subject to disciplinary
action by that association; and
b.
the individual is acting within that individual's area of expertise.
Riparian Areas
Regulation
means B.C. Reg. 376/2004 enacted on July 27, 2004 under the authority of the
Fish Protection Act.
Storm
Drainage
System
means the system and network of pipes, conduits, waterworks, bioswales,
swales, rain gardens, drains, reservoirs, canals, Stormwater Management
Facilities or other equipment or facilities in the City for the collection and
transmission of Stormwater or uncontaminated water on public property.
Stormwater
means surface runoff in response to rainfall, snowmelt or both that moves over
the land to a Watercourse or the Storm Drainage System; also means surface
runoff or overland flow from Developed areas.
Stormwater
Management
Facility
means a Stormwater impoundment and appurtenant structures, connections
and controls for containment, detention or retention of Stormwater and its
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delayed release at a controlled rate to a receiving Storm Drainage System or
Watercourse.
Subdivision
and
Development
Servicing
Bylaw
means the Subdivision and Development Servicing Bylaw for the City, as
amended from time to time.
Watercourse
means a stream, Channelized Stream, Ditch, pond, lake, river, creek, brook,
spring or Wetland whether it provides fish habitat or not and in which water
flows constantly, intermittently or at any time on private or public property.
Watercourse
Buffer Zone
means a streamside protection and enhancement area (SPEA)
a. as identified by covenant or established by a Qualified Environmental
Professional under the Riparian Areas Regulation or other enactment or
permit, including any Development Permit setback area required by the
City; or
b. as designated by a provincial or federal biologist under a provincial or
federal enactment;
and also includes a natural area around a Stormwater Management Facility
designated under paragraph (a) or (b) in relation to Development.
Wetland
means land that is inundated or saturated by surface or Groundwater at a
frequency and duration sufficient to support vegetation typically adapted for
life in saturated soil conditions, including swamps, marshes, bogs, fens,
estuaries and similar areas that are not part of a Watercourse or the active
floodplain of a Watercourse.
Yard Waste
means plant debris, grass clippings, tree clippings, leaves, branches, tree and
hedge pruning's, plants, flowers, sod, soil and rocks.
PART 3:
Watercourses and the Storm Drainage
System
MODIFYING WATERCOURSES AND STORM DRAINAGE SYSTEMS
3.1 a. No person shall enclose any portion of a Watercourse within a drain or culvert without
the prior written approval of an Environmental Protection Official.
b. No person shall alter, repair, remove, fill in, reconstruct, divert or carry out any other
Development on any Watercourse or Storm Drainage System without the prior written
approval of an Environmental Protection Official.
c. Without limiting paragraph (b), no person shall obstruct or impede the flow of any
Watercourse or Storm Drainage System without the prior written approval of an
Environmental Protection Official.
d. No person shall alter the location or the quantity of Stormwater entering any
Watercourse or Storm Drainage System from private land without prior written
approval of an Environmental Protection Official.
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e. Before granting approval under this section, the Environmental Protection Official shall
apply the:
i) provisions of this bylaw and other applicable enactments:,
ii) development permit requirements,
iii) assessment of a Qualified Environmental Professional prepared under applicable
enactments.
DEVELOPMENT ADJACENT TO WATERCOURSES
3.2
a.
No person shall Develop within a Watercourse Buffer Zone without a Development
Permit.
b.
Without limiting paragraph (a), no person shall Develop within thirty (3o) metres of the
High Water Mark of a Watercourse without a Development Permit.
c.
No person shall Develop within the area that is between thirty (30) metres and fifty (50)
metres from the High Water Mark of a Watercourse unless a Qualified Environmental
Professional has determined that the proposed Development is outside the assessment
area as defined in the Riparian Areas Regulation, (British Columbia).
d.
The requirement in paragraph (c) does not apply to a Ditch.
e.
For Development pursuant to Section 3.1(a) or (b), an Environmental Protection Official
may require the Owner of real property, in which the Development is to occur, to provide
to the City a report prepared by a Qualified Environmental Professional addressing
assessments identified in the Official Community Plan, this bylaw and the Riparian Areas
Regulation.
f.
The Owner of the real property on which the Development is to occur shall:
i) comply with all Development Permit requirements in the manner and within the
time frames identified in the Development Permit;
ii) upon completion of the requirements, submit to an Environmental Protection
Official a certified report prepared by a Qualified Environmental Professional
notifying that the Development Permit requirements have been fully implemented;
and
iii) provide security to the City an amount equal to 125% of the cost estimated by a
Qualified Environmental Professional of complying with the Development Permit
requirements.
DUMPING ADJACENT TO WATERCOURSES
3.3 a.
No person shall deliver, deposit, store, abandon, or allow to be delivered, deposited,
stored or abandoned, any fill or other material, including Yard Waste, within a designated
Watercourse Buffer Zone.
b.
Without limiting paragraph (a), no person shall deliver, deposit, store, abandon, or allow
to be delivered, deposited, stored or abandoned, any fill or other material, including Yard
Waste, within thirty (30) metres of a Watercourse if the area within thirty (30) metres is
in an Undeveloped naturally vegetated state.
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FOULING WATERCOURSES AND STORM DRAINAGE SYSTEMS
3.4
No person shall cause or permit any Deleterious Material, or water containing Deleterious
Material, to be deposited or released, directly or indirectly, including through Groundwater
contamination, into a Watercourse or Storm Drainage System that would Foul the
Watercourse or Storm Drainage System.
OIL AND GRIT INTERCEPTOR REQUIREMENTS
3.5
The Owner of real property where there is a vehicle or equipment wash area constructed as
part of a commercial or industrial business, or where a paved or impervious Motor Vehicle
Parking Area is constructed, shall:
a. construct and install an oil and grit interceptor designed by a Qualified Engineering
Professional in accordance with specifications contained in the Subdivision and
Development Servicing Bylaw to intercept the Stormwater runoff from the paved or
impervious area before it reaches the Storm Drainage System or Stormwater
Management Facility;
b. ensure that the design of the oil and grit interceptor includes a maintenance schedule
according to the manufacturer's specifications or as specified by a Qualified Engineering
Professional;
c. maintain the oil and grit interceptor according to the maintenance schedule and
manufacturer's specifications;
d. at the request of an Environmental Protection Official, provide proof of the maintenance
required under this section; and
e. without limiting paragraphs (c) and (d), an Environmental Protection Official may order
the cleaning of the oil and grit interceptor if the facility is full.
PART 4:
Bald Eagle Nest Trees and Nest Tree
Habitat
CUTTING DOWN, REMOVAL OR MODIFICATION OF BALD EAGLE NEST TREES
4.1 No person shall cut down or remove a Bald Eagle Nest Tree or cause any such tree to be cut
down, trimmed, root planed, topped, modified or removed unless:
a. any permit that may be required from the Province has been obtained;
b. prior to cutting or removal, a copy of the Provincial permit is provided to an
Environmental Protection Official with written notification of the intended date of
cutting or removal.
4.2
If the Bald Eagle Nest Tree is to be cut down or removed for a reason other than being a
Hazard Tree, the Owner of the real property from which the Bald Eagle Nest Tree is to be cut
down, trimmed, root planed, topped, modified or removed or their agent authorized in
writing shall submit to the City a habitat compensation plan prepared by a Qualified
Environmental Professional, prior to the cutting or removal, that:
a. describes the measures required to ensure how no net loss of Bald Eagle Nest Tree Habitat
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will be achieved; and
b. includes a time frame for implementation and completion of the measures with actions
required, monitoring schedule and communications plan.
4.3 The Owner of real property from which a Bald Eagle Nest Tree has been cut down, trimmed,
root planed, topped, modified or removed subject to Section 4.1 shall:
a. implement the habitat compensation plan in the manner and within the time frames
identified in the plan; and
b. upon completion of the plan measures, submit to the City a certified report prepared by
the Qualified Environmental Professional notifying that the habitat compensation plan
measures have been fully implemented.
DAMAGING BALD EAGLE NEST TREES
4.4 Without limiting sections 4.0 through 4.2, no person shall, without prior issuance of a permit
required by the Province and compliance with this Bylaw, carry out any of the following
damaging activities to any Bald Eagle Nest Tree:
a. Cutting or damaging of the roots within the Drip Line of the tree;
b. Placing fill, building materials, asphalt or a building or structure upon land within the
Drip Line of the tree;
c. Operating trucks, backhoes, excavators or other heavy equipment over the roots within
the Drip Line of the tree;
d. Denting, gouging or damaging the trunk or removing bark from the tree;
e. Depositing concrete washout, a chemical, or substances harmful to the health of the
tree on land within the Drip Line of the tree;
f. Removing soil from land within the Drip Line of the tree;
g. Blasting inside the Drip Line of the tree or outside the Drip Line so as to disturb the soil
within the Drip Line; and
h. Undermining the roots of a tree growing inside the Drip Line; or altering the
Groundwater or surface water level within the Drip Line of a tree.
DEVELOPMENT ADJACENT TO BALD EAGLE NEST TREES
4.5
a. No Person shall Develop within sixty (60) metres of a Bald Eagle Nest Tree without a
Development Permit.
b. The Owner of the real property in which Development is to occur adjacent to a Bald Eagle
Nest Tree pursuant to a Development Permit shall:
i) implement all Development Permit requirements in the manner and within the time
frames identified in the Development Permit; and
ii) upon completion of the Development Permit requirements, submit to an
Environmental Protection Official a report prepared and certified by a Qualified
Environmental Professional notifying that the Development Permit requirements
have been fully implemented.
Amd Bylaw 3674 Jul/18 Part 5 inserted and subsequent parts renumbered
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PART 5:
Noxious Weeds and Invasive Plants
5.1
No person shall plant Noxious Weeds or Invasive Plants on any property.
5.2
Every Owner of property shall keep the property clear of Noxious Weeds and Invasive
Plants.
5.3
Every Owner of property shall remove or cause to be removed from the property any Noxious
Weeds or Invasive Plants when ordered to do so by the City.
PART 6:
General Exemptions
6.1 Emergency Procedures:
a. for flood and erosion protection, and the clearing of obstructions;
b.
to prevent, repair or replace public utilities by the owner of the utilities;
c.
for clearing an obstruction from a bridge, culvert or drainage flow by a public authority
as defined in the Community Charter; or
d.
to repair bridges retaining walls or safety fences;
do not require a Development Permit provided that any person carrying out an
emergency procedure action shall report such action to the City immediately prior to
the emergency procedure action, or if this is not possible, immediately thereafter. An
Environmental Protection Official may require the submission of a report that details
the nature of the activity and impacts.
6.2 Cutting down, removal, pruning, topping or other modification of a Hazard Tree, situated in
an area in which Development is regulated pursuant to this Bylaw, is exempt from the
requirement of a Development Permit, provided that:
a.
the Owner of real property from which the Hazard Tree is to be cut down, removed or
modified shall provide to the City a certified letter prepared by a Qualified
Environmental Professional, prior to the cutting, removal or modification, specifying:
i) the tree that presents the hazard; and
ii) the condition of the Hazard Tree that give rise to the hazard.
b.
if the Hazard Tree is a Bald Eagle Nest Tree, the cutting down, removal, pruning, topping
or other modification is further exempt from the requirement pursuant to Section 5.1 (a)
if a permit has been approved by the Province for the cutting, removal, pruning, topping
or other modification of the tree.
6.3
Removal of invasive non-native vegetation in an area in which Development is regulated
under this Bylaw, does not require a Development Permit if the Owner of real property from
which invasive non-native vegetation is to be removed provides to the City an environmental
management plan prepared by a Qualified Environmental Professional prior to the removal
of the vegetation.
6.4
New recreational trails on public lands in an area in which Development is regulated under
this Bylaw do not require a Development Permit if the developer of the trail provides to the
City an environmental report prepared by a Qualified Environmental Professional detailing
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any environmental protection measures and habitat compensation requirements required
prior to trail construction.
6.5
Habitat restoration of an area in which Development is regulated under this Bylaw does not
require a Development Permit if the Owner of real property on which the restoration is to
occur provides to the City a vegetation management plan prepared by a Qualified
Environmental Professional prior to vegetation planting.
6.6
Construction, repair and maintenance of works by the City or its authorized agents and
contractors are exempt from this Bylaw, but the works must be completed in accordance with
the assessments and recommendations of a Qualified Environmental Professional and
applicable environmental regulations and best management practices.
6.7
Agricultural uses on lands within the Agricultural Land Reserve or under the Farm Practice
Protection (Right to Farm) Act or section 917(1) of the Local Government Act, do not require a
Development Permit.
Amd Bylaw 3674 Jul/18 6.8 added
6.8
The regulations prescribed in Part 5 and section 8.2(c) do not apply to Federal and Provincial
lands, Crown Corporations, and private managed forest lands.
PART 7:
Severability
7.1 If any section, subsection, paragraph, clause, phrase or word within this bylaw is for any reason
held to be invalid by the decision of a court or competent jurisdiction, such decision does not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this bylaw.
Amd Bylaw 3674 Jul/18 Sections 8.2 and 8.3 replaced
PART 8:
Enforcement, Cost Recovery and Penalties
8.1 An Environmental Protection Official and any agent of the Environmental Protection Official
may, at all reasonable times, enter upon any property in the City in order to inspect and
determine whether the regulations contained within this bylaw are being complied with.
8.2 If any Owner of property or other responsible person involved in Development or any other
activity is in contravention of this bylaw, or fails to keep the property clear of Noxious Weeds
or Invasive Plants, an Environmental Protection Official may by written notice delivered to
the Owner:
a. order an immediate suspension of all or any portion of Development or other activity;
b. order the Owner of the property in which Development occurred or other responsible
person to mitigate damages to the environment at their expense and under the direction of
a Qualified Environmental Professional and under any remedial action requirement
provisions of the Community Charter; and
c. order the removal of Noxious Weeds or Invasive Plants.
8.3 If the Owner or other responsible person fails to take action outlined in Section 8.2, Council
may make a declaration requiring that the Owner or other responsible person bring the
property into compliance with the provisions of this Part within a specified time frame. An
Environmental Protection Official may deliver to the Owner a notice in relation to Council's
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declaration.
8.4
If the Owner or other responsible person fails to comply with the notice requirement within
the time limit specified in the notice under section 7.2, the City by its workers, or others
authorized by Council, may, at all reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, enter the
property and affect such compliance at the cost of the defaulting Owner or other responsible
person. Such cost shall consist of all costs and expenses incurred by the City in affecting
compliance with this Part including, without limitation, administrative costs, costs of
attendance at the property by City employees or its contractors and the costs of the work
undertaken to mitigate damages to the environment.
8.5
If the Owner or other responsible person defaults in paying the cost referred to in Section 7.3
to the City within 30 days of a demand for payment from the City, the City may recover from
the Owner or other responsible person, in any court of competent jurisdiction, the cost as a
debt due to the City. If an Owner has not paid the debt by December 31 in the year in which
the debt was incurred, the City may direct that the amount of the cost be added to the real
property tax roll as a charge imposed in respect of work or service provided to the property of
the Owner.
Reconsideration
8.6
An Owner or other responsible person who has been issued a notice under Section 7.2 of this
Part may make representations to Council to have the decision reconsidered by applying in
writing for such reconsideration within 14 days of receipt of the notice, or lesser time if
specified in the notice.
Amd Bylaw 3852 Mar/22
Penalties
8.7
Every person who:
(a) violates or who causes or allows any of the provisions of this bylaw to be violated;
(b) fails to comply with any of the provisions of this bylaw;
(c) neglects or refrains from doing anything required under this bylaw; or
(d) who suffers or permits any act or thing to be done in contravention of any of the
provisions of this bylaw;
is deemed to have committed an infraction of, or an offence against, this bylaw and is liable
on summary conviction to a fine not less than $5,000 and a maximum of $50,000, or to
imprisonment for not more than six months, or to both.
For continuing offences, each day that such violation is caused, or allowed to continue,
constitutes a separate offence.
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READ THE FIRST TIME this
7th
day of
October,
2014
READ THE SECOND TIME this
7th
day of
October,
2014
READ THE THIRD TIME this
21st
day of
October,
2014
ADOPTED this
4th
day of
November,
2014
Signed by the Mayor and City Clerk this
19th
day of
November,
2014
Original Signed by:
Walter Jakeway
MAYOR
Tracy Bate
DEPUTY CITY CLERK
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Amd Bylaw 3674 Jul/18 Schedule 'A' added
SCHEDULE 'A'
Noxious Weeds and Invasive Plants
The following are Noxious Weeds subject to the regulations contained within Part 5 of this Bylaw:
Giant Hogweed
(Heracleum mantegazzianum)
Bohemian Knotweed
(Fallopia x bohemica)
Giant Knotweed
(Fallopia sachalinensis)
Himalayan Knotweed
(Polygonum polystachyum)
Japanese Knotweed
(Fallopia japonica)
Yellow Flag Iris
(Iris pseudacorus)
The following are Invasive Plants subject to the regulations contained within Part 5 of this bylaw:
Scotch Broom
(Cytisus scoparius)