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THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF MISSISSAUGA
User Fees and Charges
By-law 0165-2025
Amended by By-laws 0178-2025, 0044-2022 s.94(3)(a)(f), 0003-2026, 0018-2026, 0048-2026,
0058-2026, 0076-2026
WHEREAS sections 8, 9 and 11 of the Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, c. 25
("Municipal Act, 2001"), authorize a municipality to pass by-laws necessary or desirable
for municipal purposes, and in particular paragraph 3 of subsection 11(2) authorizes by-laws
respecting the financial management of the municipality;
AND WHEREAS subsection 391(1) of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides that sections
9 and 11 of that Act authorize a municipality to impose fees or charges on any class of persons
for services or activities provided or done by or on behalf of the municipality and for the use
of the municipality's property, including property under its control;
AND WHEREAS subsection 391(2) of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides that a fee
or charge imposed for capital costs related to services or activities may be imposed on persons
not receiving an immediate benefit from the services or activities but who will receive a
benefit at some later point in time;
AND WHEREAS subsection 391(3) of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides that the
costs included in a fee or charge may include costs incurred by the municipality or local board
related to administration, enforcement and the establishment, acquisition and replacement
of capital assets;
AND WHEREAS subsection 391(4) of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides that a fee
or charge may be imposed whether or not it is mandatory for the municipality or local board
imposing the fee or charge to provide or do the service or activity, pay the costs or allow
the use of its property;
AND WHEREAS subsection 391(5) of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides that, in the
event of a conflict between a fee or charge by-law and the Municipal Act, 2001, or any
other act or regulation made under any other act, the by-law prevails;
AND WHEREAS fees and charges listed in the Schedules attached hereto may be
administered and calculated in accordance with other City of Mississauga by-laws or
provincial legislation or both, including but not limited to:
(i)
animal services by-laws;
(ii)
business licensing by-laws;
(iii)
fire prevention and suppression by-laws;
(iv)
parking by-laws;
(vi)
the Building Code Act, 1992, S.O. 1992, c. 23, its regulations and by-laws
passed under the Act or its regulations;
(vii)
the Funeral, Burial and Cremation Services Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 33, its
regulations and by-laws passed under the Act or its regulations;
(viii)
subsection 69(1) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13; and
(ix)
Order in Council 1413/08 and lottery licensing by-laws passed under the Order
in Council;
AND WHEREAS the Council of The Corporation of the City of Mississauga wishes
to establish and maintain a list of services, activities and the use of property subject to
fees or charges and the amount of each fee or charge;
AND WHEREAS the Council of The Corporation of the City of Mississauga has
authorized the passage of a by-law for the purpose of establishing the list of 2026 fees and
charges;
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NOW THEREFORE the Council of The Corporation of the City of Mississauga
ENACTS as follows:
DEFINITIONS
1.
In this By-law:
(a)
"Administration Fee" has the meaning assigned to it in Schedule "B-2" to this By-
law;
(b)
"By-law" means this Fees and Charges By-law;
(c)
"City" means The Corporation of the City of Mississauga as a municipal
corporation and, where the context requires, its geographic area;
(d)
"City Manager" means the Chief Administrative Officer for the City or a person
authorized by the City Manager to act as a designate for the purposes of this By-
law;
(e)
"City Solicitor" means the City Solicitor for the City or a person authorized by the
City Solicitor to act as a designate for the purposes of this By-law;
(f)
"Commissioner" means any of the Planning and Building Commissioner, the
Commissioner of Transportation and Works, the Commissioner of Community
Services, the Commissioner of Corporate Services and the Commissioner of
Legislative Services;
(g)
"Commissioner of Community Services" means the Commissioner of
Community Services for the City or a person authorized by the Commissioner of
Community Services to act as a designate for the purposes of this By-law;
(h)
"Commissioner of Corporate Services" means the Commissioner of Corporate
Services for the City or a person authorized by the Commissioner of Corporate
Services to act as a designate for the purposes of this By-law;
(i)
"Commissioner of Legislative Services" means the Commissioner of
Legislative Services for the City or a person authorized by the Commissioner of
Legislative Services to act as a designate for the purposes of this By-law;
(j)
"Commissioner of Transportation and Works" means the Commissioner of
Transportation and Works for the City or a person authorized by the Commissioner
of Transportation and Works to act as a designate for the purposes of this By-law;
(k)
"Department" means a department of the City;
(l)
"Direct Costs" has the meaning assigned to it in Schedule "B-2" to this By-law;
(m)
"Director of Parks, Forestry and Environment" means the Director of Parks,
Forestry and Environment for the City or a person authorized by the Director of
Parks, Forestry and Environment to act as a designate for the purposes of this
By-law;
(n)
"Director of Recreation and Culture" means the Director of Recreation and
Culture for the City or a person authorized by the Director of Recreation and
Culture to act as a designate for the purposes of this By-law;
(o)
"Division" means a division within a Department;
(p)
"Effective Date" means the date that a fee or charge comes into effect or where
applicable, the date range that a fee or charge is in force and effect;
(q)
"External Parties" includes, but is not limited to, The Regional Municipality of
Peel, the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO), public utilities, developers,
private interests, including, but not limited to, private interests related to
insurance claims or conditions of development;
(r)
"Fire & Emergency Services" means the division of the Department of
Community Services for the City being a fire department within the meaning of the
Fire Protection and Prevention Act, 1997, S.O. 1997, c. 4, and is deemed to include
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any fire department personnel of the Fire & Emergency Services Division;
(s)
"Fire Chief" means the Fire Chief for the City or a person authorized by the Fire
Chief to act as a designate for the purposes of this By-law;
(t)
"Government body" includes (i) any Ontario municipality together with its
agencies, boards and commissions; (ii) a public utility or public transportation
system owned or operated by the City or the Region of Peel or by their boards;
(iii) the Governments of Canada and Ontario together with their ministries and
agencies; (iv) a board as defined in the Education Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. E.2 and
any school operated by a board and located within the boundaries of the City of
Mississauga; an Ontario university, college of applied arts and technology or other
post-secondary institution; (v) an institution approved as a public hospital under
the Public Hospitals Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.40; (vi) a conservation authority
established under the Conservation Authorities Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.27;
(u)
"highway" means a common and public highway and includes any street,
sidewalk, bridge, trestle, viaduct or other structure forming part of the highway
and, except as otherwise provided, includes a portion of a highway;
(v)
"Internal Parties" means City departments;
(w)
"long-term outdoor patio" means an accessory outdoor seating area, located
adjacent to or within proximity of a restaurant, convenience restaurant or take-out
restaurant, which is erected on a sidewalk or in a parking lay-by within a highway
located in the Port Credit Business Improvement Area, as shown in Schedule "A"
of By-law 0227- 2020;
(x)
"MiWay" means the division of the City responsible for the operation and control
of the City's public bus transportation system;
(y)
"non-resident" means a person who is neither a property owner nor a tenant of
property within the City;
(z)
"person" includes an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation,
municipal corporation, unincorporated association or organization, trust, and a
natural person in his or her capacity as a trustee, executor, administrator, or other
legal representative;
(aa)
"Planning and Building Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Planning
and Building for the City or a person authorized by the Planning and Building
Commissioner to act as a designate for the purposes of this By-law;
(bb)
"property" means any public or private real property within the City, including
buildings, structures and erections of any nature and kind in or upon such lands,
but excludes real property owned by the Federal or Provincial Crown;
(cc)
"property owner" means the registered owner of property or any person, firm or
corporation having control over or possession of the property or any portion
thereof, including a property manager, mortgagee in possession, receiver and
manager, trustee and trustee in bankruptcy;
(dd)
"seasonal outdoor patio" means an accessory outdoor seating area, located
adjacent to or within proximity to a restaurant, convenience restaurant or take-out
restaurant, which is erected on any highway;
(ee)
"seasonal outdoor retail sales and display" means an accessory outdoor area,
located adjacent to or within proximity of an existing retail store, including an
outdoor market, in which goods are offered for sale, lease and/or rental to
consumers, which is erected on any highway;
(ff)
"Total Charge" has the meaning assigned to it in Schedule "B-2" to this By-law;
and
(gg)
"Treasurer" means the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for the City or a
person authorized by the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer to act as a
designate for the purposes of this By-law.
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SCHEDULES TO THIS BY-LAW
2.
The fees and charges identified in the Schedules attached hereto shall be imposed by
the City for those services, activities or uses of property provided by the City.
3.
The following Schedules are attached to and form part of this By-law:
Schedule "A"
General Fees and Charges
Schedule "A-1"
Enforcement Fees and Charges
Schedule "B-1"
Transportation and Works Fees and Charges
Schedule "B-2"
Transportation and Works - Charges to External or Internal
Parties for Engineering, Construction, Maintenance, Traffic and
Street lighting Works
Schedule "B-3"
Transportation and Works - MiWay Fares
Schedule "B-4"
Stormwater Fees and Charges
Schedule "C-1"
Planning Act Processing Fees - Applications
Schedule "C-2"
Planning Act Processing Fees - Inspections
Schedule "C-3"
Planning Act Processing Fees - Committee of Adjustment
Schedule "D"
Parks, Forestry and Environment Fees and Charges
Schedule "E-1"
Recreation and Culture Rental Rates for Meeting Rooms, Food
Services and Banquets, Garry W. Morden Training Centre,
Pools, Culture Venues, Filming Locations, Box Office, Other
Rentals and Associated Services and Sundries
Schedule "E-2"
Recreation Rental Rates for Arenas, Gyms and Indoor Artificial
Turf
Schedule "E-3"
Recreation and Culture Program Fees and Charges
Schedule "F"
Culture Education Programs
Schedule "G"
Mississauga Public Libraries Fees & Charges
Schedule "H"
Fire & Emergency Services Fees
ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
4.
Subject to sections 5 and 6, the Treasurer is authorized to carry out the administration of
this By-law, including but not limited to the enforcement thereof and the collection activity,
and for instructing the City Solicitor to take such legal action as may be considered
appropriate.
5.
Where a Schedule to this By-law states that the City Manager, a Commissioner, or a
Director has the authority to impose a new fee, waive, reduce or otherwise vary a fee or
charge, Council hereby delegates to the City Manager or the Commissioner or Director,
as applicable, and their designate, the authority to impose a new fee, waive, reduce or
otherwise vary the fee or charge for the item concerned, in accordance with the general
criteria for any such imposition of a new fee, waiver, reduction or variation as set out in
the Schedule with respect to that item.
6.
The power under section 5 of this By-law to impose a new fee may be used, subject to
the requirements of the Municipal Act, 2001, where a new program or service is being
offered by the City in response to market demand, to maximize usage of City facilities
and locations, or for promotional or trial purposes. In imposing the new fee or charge, the
City Manager, Commissioner or Director, as the case may be, shall have regard to all
applicable City criteria and policies, and the direct and indirect costs to the City to deliver
the new program or service. The new fee or charge imposed shall be added to the
applicable Schedule of this By-law as soon as is practicable.
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GENERAL
7.
Subject to section 5 of this By-law, no request by any person for documentary, written or
printed information relating to any land, building or structure in the City, or request for
services or activities provided by the City, or request to use the City's property or any
application specified in the column entitled "Fee Name" of a Schedule, shall be processed
unless and until the person requesting the information, services, activities, use of property
or application, as the case may be, has paid the fee or charge in the prescribed amount
set out in the "2026 Fee" column of the applicable Schedule (or the interim fee or charge
in the prescribed amount set out in the "2025 Fee" column of Schedules "E-2", "E-3" and
"F" where applicable).
8.
The fees and charges approved and imposed under section 2 are subject to any
adjustment authorized by a statute, regulation or by-law in respect of the calculation or
administration of a fee or charge, such adjustment to be effective as provided for in such
statute, regulation or by-law.
9.
Despite section 2 and section 16, any fee or charge:
(a)
authorized by a by-law that comes into effect on the same or a later date than this
By-law shall be the approved and imposed fee or charge for the service, activity or
use of property specified; or
(b)
included in a valid agreement entered into by the City and one or more other parties
shall be the approved and imposed fee or charge for the service, activity or use of
property specified.
10.
The fees and charges as listed in the Schedules to this By-law will be subject to
Harmonized Sales Tax (H.S.T.) where applicable.
11.
The fees and charges as listed in the Schedules to this By-law may be paid in
accordance with applicable Corporate Policy 04-11-13 except that Corporate Policy 04-
01-05 shall govern payment terms for all recreation facility rentals and refunds.
12.
The fees and charges imposed by this By-law are due and payable:
(a)
at the time of the transaction for which the fee or charge is imposed; or
(b)
if subsection 12(a) is not applicable, upon the due date specified in any request
or invoice issued by the City or by any other body acting on behalf of the City to
any person in connection with a fee or charge imposed by this By-law.
13.
Interest for unpaid amounts owing for fees and charges will be charged in accordance with
Corporate Policy 04-07-02. Payment is due within 30 days of the invoice date. With the
exception of Government bodies, interest will accrue on overdue accounts at a rate of
1.25% compounded and applied every 30 days until paid, unless precluded by contract,
by-law or legislation.
14.
All unpaid fees or charges imposed by this By-law on a person are a debt due to the City
and the City may take such action as it considers necessary and as permitted by law to
collect the debt.
15.
Where all or part of a fee or charge imposed by this By-law remains unpaid, such fee or
charge, including interest and any other eligible recovery, may be added to the tax roll for
the following property and collected in the same manner as municipal taxes:
(a)
in the case of a fee or charge for the supply of a service or thing to a property, the
property to which the service or thing was supplied;
(b)
in all other cases, any property for which all of the owners are responsible for
payment of the fee or charge.
16.
The fees and charges set out in the "2026 Fee" column of each Schedule (and the interim
fees and charges set out in the "2025 Fee" column of Schedules "E-2", "E-3" and "F")
are approved and imposed commencing on the Effective Date set out in each Schedule.
DELETIONS, TRANSITION AND ENACTMENT
17.
Each provision of this By-law, including all of the Schedules, continues in force until
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amended, repealed or replaced (by by-law or by a resolution of the Council confirmed by
by-law) and for greater certainty this includes continuing in force after December 31,
2025 until amended, repealed or replaced.
18.
Should any part of this By-law, including any part of a Schedule attached hereto, be
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or of no force, it is the stated
intention of Council that such invalid part of this By-law shall be severable from this By-
law and that the remainder of this By-law, including the remainder of each Schedule, as
applicable, shall continue to operate and be in force.
19.
Words importing the singular number shall include the plural, and words importing the
masculine gender shall include the feminine, and the converse of the foregoing also
applies, unless the context of the By-law otherwise requires.
20.
A citation of or reference to a by-law or other enactment, including reference to a City
Policy, is deemed to be a citation of or reference to the by-law, enactment or policy as
amended or updated from time to time.
21.
By-law 0221-2024, as amended, being the 2025 User Fees and Charges By-law, is
repealed effective at the end of December 31, 2025, immediately before the time this By-
law comes into force and effect.
22.
This By-law shall come into force on January 1, 2026.
23.
This By-law may be referred to as the "Fees and Charges By-law".
ENACTED and PASSED this 5th day of November, 2025.
Signed by Carolyn Parrish, Mayor and Diana Rusnov, City Clerk.