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THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF GRAND FORKS
PESTICIDE USE CONTROL BYLAW NO. 2118
A bylaw to regulate the use of pesticides in the City of Grand Forks.
The Municipal Council for the Corporation of the City of Grand Forks, in open meeting lawfully
assembled, ENACTS as follows:
Citation
1. This bylaw may be cited as the "Pesticide Use Control Bylaw No. 2118".
Definitions
2. In this bylaw, unless the context otherwise requires:
2.1.
"Bylaw Enforcement Officer" means every person designated by Council as a
Bylaw Enforcement Officer for the City, and every Peace Officer;
2.2.
"City" means the City of Grand Forks;
2.3.
"Cosmetic Purposes" means for the purpose of maintaining outdoor trees, shrubs,
flowers, ornamental plants, or turf on a parcel or part of a parcel if the parcel or part
is used for residential purposes, or on land vested in the City;
2.4.
"Excluded Pesticide" means a pesticide listed in Schedule 2 of the Integrated Pest
Management Regulation, BC Reg. No. 604/2004, as amended from time to time;
2.5.
"Farm" means land classified as farm land under the Assessment Act (British
Columbia), as amended from time to time;
2.6.
"Land Used for Agriculture" means land designated as agricultural land under the
Agricultural Land Commission Act (British Columbia), as amended from time to time,
or any predecessor legislation to that Act;
2.7.
"Municipal Ticket Information Bylaw" means the City's Municipal Ticket
Information Bylaw No. 2073, as amended or replaced from time to time.
2.8.
"Permitted Pesticide" means a Pesticide as listed in Schedules 2 and 5 of the
Integrated Pest Management Regulation, B.C. Reg. 234/2015, as amended from
time to time;
2.9.
"Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporate
group, or municipality;
2.10.
"Pest" means an injurious, noxious or troublesome living organism, but does not
include a virus, bacteria, fungus or internal parasite that exists on or in humans or
animals;
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2.11.
"Pesticide" means a micro-organism or material that is represented, sold, used or
intended to be used to prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate a Pest and includes, but is
not limited to:
2.11.1.
a plant growth regulator, plant defoliator or plant desiccant;
2.11.2.
a control product as defined in the Pest Control Products Act (Canada); and
2.11.3.
a substance that is classified as a pesticide by the Integrated Pest
Management Act (British Columbia).
2.12.
"Private Residential Land" means a parcel or part of a parcel used for residential
purposes in the City.
2.13.
"Public Land" means all property held entirely or in part by the City.
Regulation
3. No Person shall use or apply Pesticides or grant permission or authority to use or apply
Pesticides for Cosmetic Purposes on outdoor trees, shrubs, flowers, other ornamental
plants, or turf situated on Private Residential Land.
4. No Person shall use or apply Pesticides or grant permission or authority to use or apply
Pesticides for Cosmetic Purposes on outdoor trees, shrubs, flowers, other ornamental
plants, or turf situated on Public Land within the City.
Exemptions
5. Section 3 and 4 do not apply to a Pesticide that is:
5.1.
An Excluded Pesticide,
5.2.
Applied for the management of Pests that transmit human diseases or for protection
of public health,
5.3.
Applied for the management of Pests that impact agriculture or forestry,
5.4.
Applied to a building or greenhouse, inside a building or greenhouse, or to a
residential area of a Farm,
5.5.
Applied to fruit/vegetable gardens or fruit trees,
5.6.
Applied to Land Used for Agriculture, a Farm, or land used for forestry, transportation,
public utility corridors, or pipelines, unless the public utility or pipeline is vested in the
City,
5.7.
Applied to a public or private swimming pool,
5.8.
Applied to control noxious weeds and/or invasive plants as designated from time to
time by the Province of British Columbia or any governmental entity agent thereof;
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5.9.
Applied to control noxious and/or invasive insects as designated from time to time by
the Province of British Columbia or any governmental entity agent thereof; or
5.10.
Applied on lands vested in the Government of Canada, the Province of British
Columbia, or any governmental entity agent thereof.
Offence and Penalty
6.
No Person shall do any act or suffer or permit any act or thing to be done in contravention of
this bylaw.
7.
Every Person who violates a provision of this bylaw, or who suffers or permits any act or thing
to be done in contravention of or in violation of any provision of this bylaw, or who neglects to
or refrains from doing anything required to be done by any provision of this bylaw, commits
an offence and shall be liable, upon conviction, to a fine of not more than $50,000 and not
less than $250, the costs of prosecution, and any other order imposed pursuant to the
Community Charter (British Columbia) or the Offence Act (British Columbia), as amended
from time to time.
8.
Each day during which a violation, contravention, or breach of this bylaw continues is deemed
to be a separate and distinct offence.
9.
Any person designated as a Bylaw Enforcement Officer pursuant to the City of Grand Forks
Municipal Ticket Information Bylaw is hereby authorized and empowered to enforce the
provisions of this bylaw by the Municipal Ticket Information Bylaw.
10. Any penalty imposed pursuant to this bylaw shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for,
any other penalty or remedy imposed pursuant to any other applicable statute, law, or
legislation.
General
11. Any enactment referred to herein is a reference to an enactment of British Columbia and
regulations thereto, as amended, revised, consolidated, or replaced from time to time.
12. If any section, paragraph, or phrase of this bylaw is for any reason held to be invalid by a
decision of a Court of competent jurisdiction, such decision will not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this bylaw.
Read a first and second time by the Municipal Council this 10th day of February, 2025.
Read a third time by the Municipal Council this 23rd day of March, 2026.
Adopted this 13th day of April 2026.
Mayor - Everett Baker
Corporate Officer - Kevin McKinnon
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CERTIFICATE
I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy of Bylaw No. 2118, cited as the
"Pesticide Use Control Bylaw No. 2118", as passed by the Municipal Council on the 13th day of
April, 2026.
Corporate Officer of the Municipal Council of the
City of Grand Forks