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Chapter 170 - Property Maintenance
Article I - Interpretation
170-1. Title.
This chapter may be cited as the "Property Maintenance By-Law."
170-2. Scope.
This chapter shall apply to all land within the City of Dryden including residential, non-
residential and vacant land.
170-3. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BY-LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER - A By-law Enforcement Officer of the Corporation of
the City of Dryden.
CITY - The Corporation of The City of Dryden.
INOPERATIVE MOTOR VEHICLE - A motor vehicle which is not operative or which is not
currently licensed pursuant to the provisions of the Highway Traffic Act
(Ontario) and amendments thereto, or a motor vehicle which has had part or
all of its superstructure or sources of motive power removed.
LAND - Includes yard or vacant lot.
MOTOR VEHICLE - Includes an automobile, motorcycle, and any other vehicle
propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power.
OWNER - An owner, lessee or occupant of any land in the City.
REFUSE - Debris, rubbish, garbage, waste or material of any kind whatsoever, and
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes accumulations,
littering, remains, trash, discarded or inoperative mechanical equipment,
automotive and mechanical parts, disused or discarded furniture, garden
refuse and trimmings, paper, cartons, crockery, glass, cans, containers, earth
or rock fill, old or decaying lumber or material from construction or demolition
projects, domestic, commercial and industrial waste.
YARD - An open space on the same lot with a main building or structure, unoccupied
and unobstructed from the ground to the sky.
Article II - General Provisions
170-4. Interpretation.
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170-5. Conflict.
In the event of any conflict between this chapter and any other by-law of the City,
the more restrictive provision shall prevail unless the context requires otherwise.
170-6. Depositing of refuse: hazard.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited refuse or objects on any lands that
may create a health, safety or accident hazard
170-7. Depositing of snow or ice.
A. No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited snow or ice accumulations on
lands that may create a health, safety or accident hazard.
B. No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited snow or ice from private lands
onto public lands.
170-8. Depositing of the growth of trees, other.
Being the owner of private lands, no person shall deposit the growth of hedges, shrubs,
trees or similar growth on such private lands to interfere with the use of a highway, city
sidewalk or land.
170-9. Grass and/or weeds trimmed, maximum height.
Grass and/or weeds shall be kept trimmed so as to not exceed 20 centimetres in
height. Being the owner of private lands, no person shall permit the growth of grass
and/or weeds on such lands in excess of 20 centimetres in height.
170-10. Storage of inoperative vehicles/parts.
A. No person shall permit land to be used for the storage of inoperative motor
vehicle(s) or parts thereof except in accordance with the following:
(1) The vehicle and parts are stored in an enclosed building;
(2) The vehicle and parts are fully and completely covered with a canvas or
similar opaque, weather-resistant tarpaulin in good repair, in which case no
more than one (1) such covered vehicle shall be permitted in any yard.
B. Notwithstanding the above, this section shall not apply to the storage of motor
vehicles and parts, which are reasonably necessary for the conduct of a bona
fide business, lawfully conducted on the property.
170-11. Depositing of refuse on private or public lands.
No person shall permit or cause to be permitted the throwing, placing or depositing
of refuse on private land or public lands.
170-12. Exemptions.
Notwithstanding the above, nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to interfere with
the filling or raising of land with earth or rock fill or with the disposal of refuse on any
lands which have been designated for that purpose by by-law of the City.
170-13. Ponding of storm water.
All lands shall be graded, filled up or otherwise drained so as to prevent recurrent
ponding of storm water.
170-14. Holes, pits, excavations, trenches; hazards.
No person shall permit or allow on property owned or occupied by such person any
holes, pits, excavations or trenches constituting a health or safety hazard.
Article III - Enforcement
170-15. Penalties; offences.
Every person who contravenes any of the provision of this chapter is guilty of an
offence and shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of not more
than $5,000, exclusive of costs, and every such fine is recoverable under the Provincial
Offences Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.33, as amended.