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THE CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF CENTRAL SAANICH
BYLAW NO.2037
A Bylaw to regulate blasting
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the District of Central Saanich in open meeting assembled,
enacts as follows:
L. This Bylaw may be cited as the "Central Saanich Blasting Bylaw No. 2037, 2O2O."
2. ln this Bylaw:
"MUNICIPAL OFFICER" shall mean the Municipal Clerk and any Municipal Employee designated by
him to administer this Bylaw.
3. No person shall blast or carry on blasting operations without first having obtained a blasting permit
from the Municipal Officer.
4. No person shall carry on any blasting operations that are at variance with any description, plans,
specifications or other information supplied to the Municipal Officer in support of the application for
the blasting permit.
5. No person shall interfere with or obstruct the Municipal Officer in the conduct or administration and
enforcement of this Bylaw.
6. The Municipal Officer:
(1)
may enter into any site or premises at any reasonable time for the purpose of administering
or enforcing this Bylaw;
(2)
may revoke or refuse to issue a permit where the work being carried on or proposed to be
carried on is in contravention of this Bylaw;
(3)
may order the cessation of work that is proceeding in contravention of this By- Law by placing
a "STOP WORK ORDER" at the site or by a registered return letter to the person carrying on
the work or causing it to be carried on.
7. Where an application has been made, and:
(a)
the proposed work set out in the application conforms with this Bylaw and all other applicable
Bylaws, and;
the applicant for a permit provides satisfactory evidence that he maintains with an insurance
company authorized to carry on business in British Columbia comprehensive general liability
insurance which provides for the following minimum requirements:
(i) Bodily lnjury Liability
55,000,000.00
(ii) Property Damage Liability 55,000,000.00
(b)
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(iii) Third Party Liability
s5,000,000.00
as security for and against all loss, claims, damage or demands which may be made in
consequence of such blasting. The said insurance may not be cancelled, lapsed, or materially
changed without the insurer giving fifteen (15) days' notice of cancellation to the Municipal
Officer.
The Municipal Officer shall issue the permit for which the application is made
Every permit is issued upon condition that the blasting operation authorized thereby shall be
started within one (1) month from the date of issuing the permit.
The Application and permit shall be in the form prescribed from time to time, by the Municipal
Officer.
The application for a permit shall be accompanied by a fee as set out in the Fees and Charges
Bylaw, and this permit shall be in the form presented from time to time by the Municipal
Officer.
Any person carrying on blasting operations shall comply with the lndustrial Health and Safety
Regulations made pursuant to the provisions of the Workers Compensation Act which are hereby
made a part of this Bylaw.
No person shall do any act or suffer or permit any act or thing to be done in contravention of
this Bylaw.
Notwithstanding the aforesaid provisions of this Bylaw, no person shall engage in any blasting and
no permit shall be issued for any blasting to take place between the fourteenth (14th) day of April
and the second (2nd)dayof June in anyyear, both dates excluded, within eight hundred meters
(800 m) of any part of any fur farm in the Municipality, registered under the "Fur Farms Act" of
the Province of British Columbia without the consent, in writing, of all owners or occupants of
such fur farms within such distances from the place where the blasting is to be done. Such
consent shall be shown to the Municipal Officer when application is made for a blasting permit.
Notwithstanding the aforesaid provisions of this Bylaw, no person shall engage in any blasting and
no permit shall be issued for any blasting to take place within eight hundred meters (800 m) of
the incubator buildings of any approved hatchery without the consent in writing of all the owners
or occupants of such hatcheries within such distance from the place where the blasting is to be
done. Such consent shall be shown to the Municipal Officer when applying for the blasting permit.
For the purposes of this Bylaw, an "approved hatchery" shall bear the definition given in the
Agricultural Produce Grading Act..
Every person who, without lawful cause, contravenes this Bylaw by wilfully doing any act which it
forbids, or omitting to do any act which it requires to be done, is guilty of an offence and is liable,
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on summary conviction to a fine of not less than 5100.00, and not more than 5500.00 for a first
offence; and for each subsequent offence to a fine of not less than 5250.00 and not more than
5750.00. A separate offence shall be deemed to be committed upon each day during and in which
the contravention occurs or continues.
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The penalties imposed underSection 15 hereof shallbe in addition to and not in substitution for
any other penalty or remedy imposed by this Bylaw.
L7.
Central Saanich Blasting Bylaw No. 695, 1983 is hereby repealed.
READ A FIRST TIME this
20th day of
January
2020
READ A SECOND TIME this
day of
January
,2020
READ A THIRD TIME this this
day of
January
,2O2O
ADOPTED this
day of
February
2020
2oth
2oth
3rd
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Ryan
Mayor
sor
Liz Cornwell
Corporate Officer