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. 2024-82
    A by-law to adopt the 2025 capital budget
  • By-law No. 2024-83
    A by-law to adopt the 2025 operating budget
  • By-law No. 2024-74
    A by-law to adopt the 2025 Niagara Transit Commission budget and requisition for Niagara Region special levy tax for transit
  • By-law No. 2024-75
    A by-law to adopt the 2025 wastewater budget
  • By-law No. 2024-76
    A by-law to adopt the 2025 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
    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. 2024-81
    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 2023-90
• 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
  • By-law No. 02-2016, amended by By-law Nos. 2019-06 and 2019-30
    A by-law to define the procurement policies and procedures and to repeal By-law 95-2014
    
• 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. 2025-03
    A by-law to set and levy the rates of taxation for regional general and special purposes for the year 2025
• Tax ratios and tax rate reductions
  • By-law No. 2025-04
    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 2025
• Tree and forest conservation
  • By-law No. 2020-79
    A by-law to prohibit or regulate the harvesting, destruction or injuring of trees in woodlands
    
• 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 2024-73
    A by-law to adopt the 2025 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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