Niagara Region By-law Index
Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario
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# Niagara Region By-law Index
## Most requested by-laws
* **Budget**
+ By-law No. 2017-63 as amended by By-law No. 2022-80
A by-law to define budget control
+ By-law No. 2019-79 as amended by By-law No. 2020-84, By-law No. 2022-81 and By-law No. 2024-25
A by-law to define budget planning requirements
+ By-law No. 2025-71
A by-law to adopt the 2026 capital budget
+ By-law No. 2026-09
A by-law to adopt the 2026 operating budget
+ By-law No. 2025-66
A by-law to adopt the 2026 Niagara Transit Commission budget and requisition for Niagara Region special levy tax for transit
+ By-law No. 2025-68
A by-law to adopt the 2026 wastewater budget
+ By-law No. 2025-69
A by-law to adopt the 2026 water budget
* **Councillors' expenses**
+ By-law No. 2017-99 as amended by By-law No. 2018-44 and 2019-103
A by-law to provide for the reimbursement of expenses of the members of Niagara Regional Council
* **Document execution**
+ By-law No. 09-2016 as amended by By-law Nos. 2017-112 and 2019-65
A by-law to govern the execution of documents and to delegate certain administrative powers and duties to staff and to repeal of By-law 126-2011
* **Niagara Transit Commission**
+ By-law No. 2022-38 as amended by By-law No. 2025-73
A by-law to establish the Niagara Transit Commission
* **Establish standing committees**
+ By-law No. 35-2014
A by-law to establish standing committees
* **Fees and charges**
+ By-law No. 2025-65
A by-law to establish fees and charges for the services and activities provided by Niagara Region and the use of its property, and to repeal By-Law No. 2024-81
* **Integrity commissioner**
+ By-law No. 2023-67
A by-law to appoint an Integrity Commissioner for Niagara Region and to repeal By-law No. 2021-37
* **Licensing**
+ By-law No. 2018-76 as amended by By-law No. 2020-03
A by-law to provide for the licensing, regulating and inspecting of adult entertainment parlours, owners and operators of adult entertainment parlours and entertainers at adult entertainment parlours
+ By-law No. 2021-57
A by-law to license, regulate and govern owners, drivers and brokers of taxicabs and transportation network company businesses
+ By-law No. 2021-58
A by-law to license, regulate and govern vehicles used for hire (specialty vehicles, shuttle buses, sightseeing vehicles, caleche)
+ By-law No. 2021-59
A by-law to license, regulate and govern salvage shops and salvage yards
+ By-law No. 2021-60
A by-law to license, regulate and govern second-hand good shops and dealers in second-hand goods
+ By-law No. 2021-61
A by-law to license, regulate and govern tow trucks, and owners, drivers and brokers of towing businesses
* **Procedural**
+ By-law No. 120-2010
By-law No. 120-2010 was amended by By-law No. 49-2011; By-law No. 124-2011; By-law No. 11-2012; By-law No. 38-2012; By-law No. 06-2013 (now repealed); By-law No. 109-2013; By-law No. 130-2013; By-law No. 133-2013; By-law No. 01-2014; By-law No. 46-2014; By-law No. 58-2014; By-law No. 94-2014; By-law No. 55-2015; By-law No. 65-2015; By-law No. 2018-31; By-law No. 2018-80; By-law No. 2019-03; By-law No. 2019-16; By-law No. 2019-36; By-law No. 2019-41; By-law No. 2020-11 (now repealed); By-law No. 2020-16; By-law No. 2020-51; By-law No. 2021-44; By-law No. 2022-36; By-law No. 2022-40; By-law No. 2023-68; No. 2023-97; By-law No. 2024-36; and By-law No. 2024-52.
* **Procurement**
+ Procurement By-law No. 2025-57
A by-law to provide for the procurement of goods and services and the disposal of surplus goods by Niagara Region and to repeal By-law No. 02-2016 (effective March 1, 2026)
* **Records retention**
+ By-law No. 2023-57
A by-law to provide for the classification, retention and destruction of records of the Regional Corporation
* **Regional development charges**
+ By-law No. 2022-71
A by-law to establish development charges and to repeal By-law No. 2017-98
+ By-law No. 2022-94 as amended by Ontario Land Tribunal Order No. OLT-22-004722
A by-law to establish transit development charges
Learn about procedures for payment of development charges.
* **Sewer use**
+ By-law No. 2024-51
A by-law to regulate discharges to the sanitary and storm sewer systems of Niagara Region and to repeal By-law No. 27-2014
* **Signs, notices and advertising**
+ By-law No. 122-2013
A by-law to prohibit a person to place or permit a sign other than an official sign or a sign permitted by this by-law on a Regional road
* **Smoking**
+ By-law No. 22-2002
A by-law to regulate the smoking of tobacco in public places and workplaces
+ By-law No. 112-2013 as amended By-law No. 2019-52
A Regional by-law to protect children and vulnerable persons from exposure to outdoor second-hand smoke amended on January 17, 2019
+ By-law No. 2022-35
A by-law to regulate water pipe smoking
Learn about local regulations and enforcement or call the Tobacco Hotline at 905-688-8248 or 1-888-505-6074 ext. 7393.
* **Tax capping**
+ By-law No. 2020-20
A by-law to adopt optional tools for the purposes of administering limits for the commercial, industrial and multi-residential property classes for the year 2020
* **Tax rates**
+ By-law No. 2026-16
A by-law to set and levy the rates of taxation for regional general and special purposes for the year 2026
* **Tax ratios and tax rate reductions**
+ By-law No. 2026-15
A by-law to set tax ratios and tax rate reductions for prescribed property subclasses for regional purposes and area municipal purposes for the year 2026
* **Tree and forest conservation**
+ By-law No. 2020-79 as amended by By-law No. 2025-24
A by-law to prohibit or regulate the harvesting, destruction or injuring of trees in woodlands
* **Trespass notices**
+ By-law No. 2024-68
A by-law to establish a system for administering notices and other matters under the Trespass to Property Act (R.S.O. 1990, c. T.21)
* **Waste management**
+ By-law No. 2022-32 as amended by By-law No. 2022-60
A by-law to regulate the use of the solid waste management system
+ By-law No. 2026-07
A by-law to adopt the 2026 Waste Management Budget
For more information and by-law enforcement, visit Waste Management, or call 905-356-4141 or 1-800-594-5542.
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The legislative material on this site has been prepared for convenience of reference only and does not yet have official sanction.
For all purposes of interpreting and applying the law, users should consult the original by-laws.
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