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THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF MISSISSAUGA
Nuisance Gathering
By-law 0211-2023
(Amended by By-law 0030-2025)
WHEREAS sections 8, 9 and 11 of the Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, c. 25 (the
"Municipal Act, 2001") authorize The Corporation of the City of Mississauga to pass by-laws
necessary or desirable for municipal purposes, and in particular paragraphs 5, 6, 8 of
subsection 11(2) authorize by-laws respecting the economic, social and environmental well-
being of the municipality; the health, safety and well-being of persons, and the protection of
persons and property;
AND WHEREAS Section 35 of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides that a municipality may
pass by-laws removing or restricting the common law right of passage by the public over a
highway and the common law right of access to the highway;
AND WHEREAS Section 128 of the Municipal Act, 2001 authorizes a municipality to
prohibit and regulate public nuisances, including matters that, in the opinion of the Council of
The Corporation of the City of Mississauga are or could become or cause public nuisances;
AND WHEREAS it is in the opinion of the Council of The Corporation of the City of
Mississauga that certain gatherings, as defined in this By-law, are or could become or cause a
public nuisance;
AND WHEREAS subsection 391 of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides that a municipality
may impose fees and charges on persons for services or activities provided or done by or on
behalf of it, including costs related to administration and enforcement;
AND WHEREAS section 436 of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides that a municipality may
pass by-laws providing that the municipality may enter on land at any reasonable time for the
purpose of carrying out an inspection to determine compliance with a by-law or an order made
pursuant to the by-law;
AND WHEREAS sections 444 and 445 of the Municipal Act, 2001, provide that a
municipality may make an order requiring the person who contravened the by-law or who
caused or permitted the contravention or the owner or occupier of the land on which the
contravention occurred to discontinue the contravening activity and/or to do work to correct the
contravention;
AND WHEREAS section 446 of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides that a municipality may
proceed to do things at a person's expense which that person is otherwise required to do under
a by-law but has failed to do and the costs incurred by a municipality may be recovered by
adding the costs to the tax roll and collecting them in the same manner as property taxes;
AND WHEREAS on December 13, 2023, the Council for The Corporation of the City of
Mississauga passed Resolution 0269-2023 approving General Committee Recommendation
GC-0580-2023 to enact a nuisance gathering by-law to regulate nuisance gatherings within the
City of Mississauga;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of The Corporation of the City of Mississauga hereby
ENACTS:
PART 1: DEFINITIONS
1.
For the purposes of this By-law:
"By-law" means this by-law to regulate Nuisance Gatherings in the City;
"Car Rally" means any formal or informal event or exhibition consisting of the gathering
of Motor Vehicles; (0030-2025)
"Chief of Police" means the Chief of Peel Regional Police and includes their designate
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"City" means The Corporation of the City of Mississauga or the geographical area of the
City of Mississauga as the context requires;
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner appointed by Council with administrative
responsibility for the City's Enforcement Division and includes their designate;
"Council" means the Council of the City;
"Highway" means a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway, driveway,
square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle and Mississauga Transitway, any part of which is
intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles and includes the
area between the lateral property lines thereof and for greater certainty, "Highway"
includes all roadways located within a City park, a municipal cemetery, a golf course and
a marina;
"Motor Vehicle" means an automobile, motorcycle, motor-assisted vehicle and any
other vehicle propelled or driven by gasoline or electric power; (0030-2025)
"Nuisance Gathering" means a gathering on a Premises, which by reasons of the
conduct of the Persons in attendance, results in any one or more of the following
activities occurring:
a)
public disorderly conduct;
b)
public drunkenness or public intoxication;
c)
the unlawful sale, furnishing, or distribution of alcoholic beverages or controlled
substances;
d)
the deposit of refuse on public or private property;
e)
damage to or destruction of public or private property;
f)
pedestrian traffic, vehicular traffic, or illegal parking that obstructs the free flow of
traffic or could interfere with the ability to provide emergency services;
g)
unreasonable noise, including loud music or shouting that is of such a volume or
nature that it is likely to disturb the inhabitants of the City;
h)
unlawful open burning or fireworks;
i)
public disturbances, including public brawls or public fights; (0030-2025)
j)
outdoor public urination or defecation; or (0030-2025)
k)
a Car Rally that includes any of the activities outlined in sections (a) to (j).
(0030-2025)
"Officer" means a by-law enforcement officer employed by the City and/or appointed by
Council to perform the duties of enforcing City by-laws, and also includes a police officer
employed by the Peel Regional Police or the Ontario Provincial Police;
"Owner" means a Person who is the registered owner of a property and includes a
property manager, tenant or any other Person who otherwise has rightful possession of
or possessory control of any property;
"Person" includes any individual person, a corporation, a condominium corporation,
including its directors and officers, a partnership, any other form of business or legal
association or entity, and the heirs, executors and administrators or other legal
representatives of a Person, including their respective successors and assigns; (0030-
2025)
"Premises" means any public or private place in Mississauga, including but not limited
to Highways, parks, parking lots, yards appurtenant to a building or dwelling or vacant
lands.
PART 2: NUISANCE GATHERINGS
Restrictions and Requirements
2.
No Person shall sponsor, conduct, continue, host, create, allow, cause or permit a
Nuisance Gathering.
3.
No Person shall attend a Nuisance Gathering.
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4.
No Person who, individually or jointly with others, is an Owner, shall allow, cause or
permit a Nuisance Gathering on a Premises.
5.
Every Person who sponsors, conducts, continues, hosts, creates, allows, causes or
permits a Nuisance Gathering shall take all reasonable and lawful actions to end a
Nuisance Gathering.
PART 3: ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Administration
6.
The Commissioner is responsible for the administration and enforcement of this By-law
and may from time to time, appoint delegates or assign duties to City staff under this By-
law. (0030-2025)
Restricting or Prohibiting Access to Highways (0030-2025)
7.
Where a Nuisance Gathering is occurring on or adjacent to the Highway, on the direction
of the Commissioner or the Chief of Police, an Officer may temporarily restrict or prohibit
the public from access to and/or using any Highway or portion thereof, and in doing so
may place or erect one or more notices on the said Highway. (0030-2025)
8.
Where the access and/or use of a Highway is temporarily restricted or prohibited under
this By-law, the common law right of passage by the public and the common law right of
access by an owner of land abutting the Highway or portion of the Highway are so
restricted or prohibited. (0030-2025)
9.
No Person shall access and/or use a Highway, or portion of a Highway that has been
temporarily restricted or prohibited from access and/or use under this By-law except with
the direction of an Officer or other lawful authority. (0030-2025)
10.
No Person shall, without lawful authority, remove, displace, deface or obstruct any
barricade, device, sign or notice placed on a Highway pursuant to this By-law. (0030-
2025)
Inspections
11.
An Officer may enter upon land at any reasonable time in accordance with the Municipal
Act, 2001 for the purpose of carrying out an inspection to determine whether or not this
By-law or any orders issued pursuant to this By-law are being complied with.
12.
For the purposes of conducting an inspection pursuant to this By-law, an Officer may:
a)
require the production for inspection of documents or things relevant to the
inspection;
b)
inspect and remove documents or things relevant to the inspection for the
purpose of making copies or extracts;
c)
require information from any person concerning a matter related to the
inspection; and
d)
alone, or in conjunction with a person possessing special or expert knowledge,
make examinations or take tests, samples or photographs necessary for the
purposes of the inspection.
13.
No Person shall prevent, hinder, or obstruct, or attempt to hinder or obstruct, an Officer
who is lawfully exercising a power or performing a duty under this By-law.
Orders and Remediation (0030-2025)
14.
An Officer who finds a contravention of this By-law may make one or more orders
requiring that: (0030-2025)
a) the contravening activity be discontinued; and/or
b) work be done to correct the contravention.
15.
Upon an order of an Officer pursuant to subsection 14(a) of this By-law, every Person
who is sponsoring, hosting, creating, conducting, allowing, causing or permitting a
Nuisance Gathering on a specified Premises shall cease. (0030-2025)
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16.
Every Person not residing on a specified Premises shall leave such Premises after
having been directed to leave by an order made pursuant to subsection 14(a) of this By-
law. (0030-2025)
17.
An order made under this By-law shall include:
a)
the reasonable particulars of the contravention adequate to identify the
contravention and the location of the Premises on which the contravention
occurred; and
b)
the date by which there must be compliance with the order.
18.
Every Person shall comply with an order made pursuant to this By-law.
19.
Any order required to be given or served pursuant to this By-law is sufficiently given or
served by delivering it personally to the Person to whom it is directed or sending it by
registered mail to the last known address of the Person, which service shall be deemed
to be five (5) days after mailing.
20.
In addition to the provisions in sections 21 to 23 of this By-law, where a thing or matter
that is required to be done through an order of an Officer pursuant to subsection 14(b) of
this By-law is not completed by the time set out in the order, the matter or thing may be
done by the City at the Person's expense and the City may recover the costs of doing
the matter or thing from the Person directed or required to do it by court action or by
adding the costs to the tax roll and collecting them in the same manner as property
taxes. (0030-2025)
PART 4: FEES
21.
In addition to the remedial costs recoverable under section 20 of this By-law, the City
may impose a fee or charge upon any Person sponsoring, conducting, continuing,
hosting, creating, allowing, causing or permitting a Nuisance Gathering. (0030-2025)
22.
The amount of the fee or charge imposed under section 21 of this By-law shall be the
amount of administrative costs, costs of enforcement and any other related costs
incurred by the City in responding to and addressing the Nuisance Gathering pursuant to
this By-law, including such other fees as may be set out in the applicable City User Fees
and Charges By-law or any successor thereto; (0030-2025)
23.
Fees or charges imposed on a Person pursuant to this By-law constitute a debt of the
Person to the City.
PART 5: OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
24.
Every Person who contravenes any provision of this By-law, and every director or officer
of a corporation who knowingly concurs in such contravention by the corporation, is
guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine, and such other penalties, as provided for in the
Provincial Offences Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P. 33, and the Municipal Act, 2001, as both may
be amended from time to time.
25.
All contraventions of any provision of this By-law are designated as continuing offences.
26.
In addition to sections 24 and 25, any Person who is charged with an offence under this
By-law by the laying of an information under Part III of the Provincial Offences Act,
R.S.O. 1990, c. P. 33 and is found guilty of the offence is liable, pursuant to the
Municipal Act, 2001, to the following fines:
a)
a minimum fine of $500 and a maximum fine not exceeding $100,000; and
b)
in the case of a continuing offence, for each day or part of a day that the offence
continues, a minimum fine of $500, and a maximum fine not exceeding $10,000,
and the total of all daily fines for the offence is not limited to $100,000.
27.
Every person who is convicted of an offence under this By-law may be liable, in addition
to the fines established under subsection 26(a), to a special fine, which may exceed
$100,000, designed to eliminate or reduce any economic advantage or gain from
contravening this By-law.
PART 6: RECOVERY THROUGH MUNICIPAL TAX ROLL (0030-2025)
27.1
The City may recover all unpaid costs and expenses incurred in the enforcement of this
By-law, including the costs associated with work described in subsection 14(b), the fees
described in sections 21 to 22, and the fines and penalties levied through sections 24 to
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27, by court action or alternatively, by adding the same to the Person's tax roll and
collecting them in the same manner as property taxes. (0030-2025)
27.2
Where the Person liable to pay the costs and expenses referred to in section 27.1 is a
condominium corporation, the aggregate costs and expenses to be added to the tax roll
of each unit owner shall be in the same proportions as specified in the condominium
declaration for sharing the common interests. (0030-2025)
PART 7: APPLICATION AND INTERPRETATION (0030-2025)
Application
28.
This By-law applies to all Persons, lands and properties in the City of Mississauga.
Interpretation
29.
This By-law shall not be interpreted as exempting any Person from the requirement to
comply with any other City by-law. In the event of a conflict between the provisions of
this By-law and any other City by-law, the provisions which are more protective of the
public assets of the City, the economic, social and environmental well-being of the City,
the health, safety and well-being of persons in the City, and persons and property in the
City, shall apply.
PART 8: GENERAL (0030-2025)
30.
In this By-law, a reference to an Act, regulation or by-law is to that Act, regulation or
bylaw as it is amended or replaced from time to time.
31.
If a court of competent jurisdiction declares any provision or part of a provision of this
By-law invalid, the provision or part of a provision is deemed severable from this By-law
and it is the stated intention of Council that the remainder of this By-law shall continue to
be in force.
Enactment
32.
This By-law shall come into force and effect on January 1, 2024.
Short Title
33.
This By-law may be referred to as the "Nuisance Gathering By-law".
ENACTED and PASSED this 13th day of December, 2023
Signed by Bonnie Crombie, Mayor and Diana Rusnov, City Clerk.