HomeMy WebLinkAbout770"Paperbound book, 14.5 x 21.5 cm., 172 pages, dated 1954, 3 copies. Book
includes a black and white photograph of the Pickering Township Council, 1954
and a list showing members of Municipal Council and principal officers, 1850 - 1954.
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"BY-LAWS
of the
CORPORATION
of the
TOWNSHIP
of
PICKERING
George T. Todd, Reeve"
"BY-LAWS 3
BY-LAW NO. 1311
A By-Law to prohibit the running at large of domestic animals within the Municipality of
the Township of Pickering, and providing for the appointment of Pound-keepers
therein.
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering enacts as
follows :
L From and after the passing of this by-law no person shall permit or allow any horse,
bull, ox, cow, sheep, goat, pig, or other cattle, geese or other poultry, of which he may
be the owner, or of which he may have charge, whether temporarily or otherwise,
to run at large upon any public road, street or place in the Township of Pickering,
or to trespass upon private premises or lands therein whether the said premises
or lands be enclosed or not.
2 For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this bylaw and of Chapter 301
R. S. O, 1927, entitled ""The Pound Act"" and any amendments that may hereafter
be made thereto the Corporation of the Township of Pickering shall annually appoint
a sufficient number of Poundkeepers for the said Township, and the duties of such
Poundkeepers shall be as prescribed by the said Pound Act and by this by-law
(For tariffs pound keepers and penalties, contact clerk's office).
Passed December 24th. A. D 1928.
G. M. Forsyth. Reeve. Donald R. Beaton. Clerk."
"4 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NO. 1312
To prohibit and regulate the obstruction, encumbering, injuring or fouling of highways or
bridges in the Municipality of the Township of Pickering.
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering enacts as
follows :
1. No person shall have or place any worm or other fence, materials, or other o
bstructions, whether temporary or otherwise, on any highway or bridge under the
jurisdiction and control of the said Corporation, or permit any material or liquid
to flow from premises occupied by him onto any such highway or bridge, so as to foul
or injure the same. Provided that this entactment shall not extend to or apply to
materials to be used' for the construction or repair of any such highway or bridge, .
if they do not interfere with the use of it for public travel.
2. No person shall throw, place, or deposit any dirt, filth, glass, handbills, paper,
or other rubbish or refuse on any highway or bridge under the jurisdiction and control
of this Corporation.
3. No person shall have or place any obstruction in any ddtch or culvert on any of the
highways under the jurisdiction and control of this Corporation.
4. Any person having or placing any such obstruction on any such highway, bridge,
ditch, or culvert who does not remove the same therefrom after five days' notice from
the Council through the Reeve, Township Road Superintendent or Clerk to remove the
same, shall be liable for the expense of having the same removed, and upon such
default, such obstruction may be removed forthwith by the Township Road
Superintendent, on order of the Reeve or Council of said Municipality.
5. The Council of this Municipality, before ordering the removal of any such
obstruction or causing the same to be removed summarily in manner aforesaid,
may through the Clerk notify the person having or placing such obstruction to appear
before the said Council, at a meeting thereof to be held not less than eight days
thereafter, to show cause, if any why he should not be required to remove suoh
obstructions."
"BY-LAWS 5
6. If any person, after having been notified as aforesaid to remove any such
obstructions he shall have or may have placed on any such highway or bridge,
or in any such ditch or culvert, fails to remove same, it shall be lawful for the Council
of this Corporation, or for the Reeve thereof, by a written order directed to the
Township Road Superintendent or any other person, instructing such Superintendent
or other person to remove and should have removed the same, and1 such expense,
if not sooner paid, may be placed on the Collector's Roll of the Municipality against the
person so in default, and collected from him in the same manner as are ordinary
Municipal Taxes, or the same may be collected from him by suit in the Division Court.
7. Any neglect or refusal to obey any order made under authority of this
by-law, or to pay the costs of removing any such obstructions as aforesaid,
shall subject the offender to a penalty for every such offence of a sum not exceeding
$20.00 together with costs of prosecution and conviction, as well as of the removal of
such obstruction, and such penalty and costs shall be recoverable under the Summary
Convictions Act.
8. Any person convicted before a Police Magistrate or Justice of the Peace of any
other contravention of any of the provisions of this by-law shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding $20.00 for each offence, to be recoverable under the Summary Convictions
Act.
9. Every penalty recovered under the provisions of this by-law shall be paid over to
the Treasurer of this Corporation, for the use of this Corporation.
10. By-iLaw No. 736 and all other by-laws or parts of by-laws of this Corporation
contrary to or inconsistent with any of the provisions of this by-law, be and the same
are hereby repealed.
Passed December 24th. 1928.
G. M. Forsyth, Reeve. Donald R- Beaton, Clerk."
"6 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NO. 1313
By-law providing for the protection of sidewalks in the Municipality of the Township of
Pickerng.
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering enacts as
follows :
1. It shall not be lawful for any carriage, motor car or truck, wagon, bicycle,
sleigh or other vehicle or conveyance of any description and whatever to motive
power or particular kind or class of such vehicles or conveyances may be,
to be upon or used, drawn, hauled, or propelled along or upon any sidewalk,
pathway or footpath used by or set apart for the use of pedestrians and forming part
of any highway or bridge, boulevard, or other means of public communication,
or being in or upon any highway, boulevard, park, park lot, garden,
or other place set apart or for public recreation, in the said Municipality.
2. It shall not be lawful for any person to lead1, ride, or drive horses or cattle
upon any such sidewalk, or in or on any other places not proper thereon.
3. Any person, firm, or company contravening any of the provisions of this
by-law, shall be liable upon conviction to a fine not exceeding $20.00 and the same
shall be recoverable under the Summary Convictions Act.
4. All penalties recovered under the provisions of this by-law shall be paid over to the
Treasurer of this Corporation, for the use of this Corporation.
5. By-law No. 738 and all other by-laws or parts of by-laws of this Corporation
inconsistent with or contrary to any of the provisions of this by-law,
be and the same are hereby repealed.
Passed December 24th. 1928.
G. M. Forsyth, Reeve. Donald R. Beaton. Clerk."
"BY-LAWS 7
BY-LAW NO. 1314
For licensing, regulating and governing the keepers of billiard, pool and bagatelle
tables and bowling alleys in the Municipality of the Township of Pickering.
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering enacts as
follows :
1. All persons, who for hire or gain, and proprietory clubs which directly or
indirectly keep, or have in their possession, or on their premises, any billiard,
pool or bagatelle tables, or keep or have any such table, whether used or not in a
house or place of public entertainment, or resort in 'the said Municipality,
shall annually pay to the said Municipality the license fees hereinafter mentioned
therefor, and shall not keep or for hire or gain let the use of any such tables without
having first obtained a license for the same.
2. The fees to be paid for a license for any such billiard, pool, or bagatelle tables
by any one person or club shall toe $50.00 for one such table, and $20.00 for each
additional table kept by such person or club. These fees shall be payable annually
and such licenses shall be terminated at the end of the calendar year in which the
same shall be issued.
3. All such licenses shall be issued and signed by the Reeve and Clerk and delivered
upon receipt of the fees payable; provided, however, that no such license shall be
issued to a person not holding a similar license for the previous year until after 15
days from the time when the application for the same has been made and the
necessary fees paid. Provided also that the said Reeve and1 Clerk may if they
desire remit the matter of granting such license to any one or more applicants therefor
to the Council of this Corporation, and in such event the decision of the Council in the
matter shall be final; provided also that such Council may cancel any such license at
any time.
4. No intoxicating liquor or other refreshments shall be sold in connection with any
premises in the said Municipality where any such billiard, pool or bagatelle table or
bowling alley arc kept for hire or gain, and no drinking of intoxicating liquor,
use of profane or obscene language, gambling or disorderly conduct shall be
permitted in any such premises."
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6. No person under the age of eighteen years shall be permitted to frequent or
loiter in any premises where any such tables are kept and operated for gain or hire
in the said Municipality.
7. All such licenses shall be subject to any impositions and regulations of the
Province of Ontario, now in force or that may hereafter be .imposed and made.
8. The term ""Proprietary Club"" as used in this by-law shall be deemed to mean
and include all clubs other than those in which the use of any such billiard, pool or
bagatelle tables is only incidental to the main objects of the club.
9. Any person or proprietary club contravening, violating, or attempting to evade
any of the provisions or requirements of this by-law shall upon conviction be liable
under the Summary Convictions Act.
10. All of such license fees and penalties shall be pa.id over to the Treasurer of this
Corporation, for the use of this Corporation.
11. By-law No. 969 and all other by-laws or pants of by-laws of this Corporation
contrary to or inconsistent with any of the provisions of this by-law be and the
same are hereby repealed.
Passed December 24th, 1928.
G. M. Forsyih, Reeve. Donald R. Beaton. Clerk."
"BY-LAWS 9
BY-LAW NO. 1316
To regulate and license exhibitions, menageries and shows in the Municipality of the
Township of Pickering.
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering enacts
as follows :
1. No exhibition of wax-works, menageries, circus-riding, or other like shows usually
exhibited by showmen, shall be held in the said Municipality until a license shall have
first been obtained therefor.
2. No roller-skating r.ink, merry-go-round, switchback railway, carnival, or other like
contrivance, shall be operated in the said Municipality until a license shall have been
first had and obtained for the same.
3. All such licenses shall be issued by the Reeve and the Clerk, and any such
license may be revoked at any time at the pleasure of the Council.
4. The fee for a license for any of the shows mentioned in Section 1, of this by-law
shall be $20.00 for each day's exhibition.
5. The fee for a license for operating any of the amusements or contrivances
mentioned in Section 2, of this by-law shall be the sum of $10.00.
6. This by-law shall not extend to or affect the exhibitions or shows of any
agricultural or horticultural society, or any lecture or entertainment of a religious or
scientific character.
7. No such License shall be issued for any menagerie, circus. Wild West, trained
animal or other show, unless the owner, manager or operator produces a license
therefor from the Treasurer of the Province of Ontario.
8. Any person contravening, violating or attempting to evade the provisions or
requirements of this by-law shall be liable upon conviiction to a fine of not more
than $20.00 and the same shall be recoverable under the Summary Convictions Act.
9. By-law No. 746 and all other by-laws, or parts of by-laws, of this Corporation
contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this by-law be and the same are
hereby repealed.
Passed December 24th, 1928.
G. M. Forsyth, Reeve. Donald R. Beaton, Clerk."
"10 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NO. 1317
To provide for the preservation of public morals in the Municipality of the Township of
Pickering.
Whereas by the provisions of the revised Statutes of Ontario, power is given to Councils
of Township Municipalities to pass by-laws for certain purposes.
Be it therefore enacted by the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of
Pickering :
1. It shall not be lawful to post up or exhibit placards, play bills, posters, writings or
pictures, or to write words, or make pictures or drawings, which are indecent or
may tend to corrupt or demoralize, on any wall or fence or elsewhere on any highway or
in any public place in the said Municipality.
2. It shall not be lawful for any person to utter any profane oath, or obscene,
blasphemous or grossly insulting language, or to commit any other immorality or
indecency in the said Municipality.
3. It shall not be lawful for any person to be intoxicated or guilty of any disorderly
conduct in any street, highway cr public place, or at any public meeting held for a lawful
purpose, in the said Municipality.
4. It shall not be lawful for any person to keep a house of ill fame, or to harbour persons
of bad character, in the said Municipality.
5. It shall not be lawful for any person to keep a gambling house, or to allow gambling
on his or her premises within the said Municipality.
6. It shall not be lawful for any person to indecently expose his or her person at or near
any public highway or other public place in the said Municipality.
7. Any person contravening any of the provisions of this by-law shall,
upon conviction before a Police Magistrate or Justice of the Peace, be liable to a
fine not exceeding $50.00 for each offence, such fine to be recoverable under the
Summary Convictions Act.
8. All penalties recovered under this by-law shall be paid over to the
Treasurer of the said' Municipality, for the use of the said Municipality.
9. By-law No. 743 and all other by-laws, or parts of by-laws contrary to or
inconsistent with any of the provisions of this by-law be and the same are
hereby repealed.
Passed December 24th, 1928.
G. M. Forsyth, Reeve. Donald R- Beaton, Clerk."
"BY-LAWS 11
BY-LAW NO. 1318
By-law to prevent or regulate the firing of guns or other firearms, to prohibit the setting off
of fireworks and the holding of charivaries, and other like disturbances of the peace in the
Municipality of the Township of Pickering.
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering enacts
as follows :
1. It shall not be lawful for any person to discharge a gun or other firearms, or to fire
or set off fireballs, squibs, crackers or fireworks, or to take part in a charivari,
or cause or assist in causing any like disturbance of the peace on any highway,
street or public place within the said Municipality.
2. It shall not be lawful for any person to be guilty of ringing bells, blowing or
sounding horns, shouting, or making unusual noises calculated to disturb
any of the inhabitants of the said Municipality.
3. Any person, contravening any of the provisions of this bylaw upon conviction,
shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $20.00 to be recoverable under the Summary
Convictions Act.
4. All penalties recovered under this by-law shall be paid over to the Treasurer
of the said Municipality, for the use of said Municipality.
5. By-law No. 744 and all other by-laws or parts of by-laws of this Corporation
contrary to or inconsistent with any of the provisions of this by-law be and the
same are hereby repealed.
Passed December 24th, 1928.
G. M. Forsyth. Reeve. Donald R. Beaton, Clerk."
"12 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NO. 1334
Of the Municipal Corporation of the Township of Pickering, respecting the
Public Health.
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering enacts
as follows :
1. It shall be the duty of the medical officer of health to assist and advise the local
board of health and its officers in matters relating to public health and to superintend
the enforcement and observance, within this municipality, of health by-laws or
regulations, and of Public Health Acts, and of any other sanitary laws, and to perform
such other duties and lawful acts for the preservation of the public health as may,
in his opinion, be necessary, or as may be required by the Department of
Health of Ontario. He shall also present to the said board, before the loth day of
November in each year, a full report upon the sanitary conditions of the
Municipality.
2. The sanitary inspectors, besides performing the duties imposed by this
by-law, shall assist the medical officer of health and perform such other duties as may
from time to time be assigned to them by the local board of health or the medical officer
of health.
3. The chairman of the board of health shall, before the 1st day of December in each
year, present to this council a report containing a detailed statement of the work of the
board during the year, and the report of the sanitary condition of the municipality as
rendered to the board by the medical officer of health. A copy of each such report shall
be transmitted by the Secretary to the Department.
4. No person shall, within the Municipality, suffer the accumulation upon his
premises, or deposit, or permit the deposit upon any land belonging to him,
of anything that may endanger the public health, or deposit upon, on or into, any street,
square, lane, byway, wharf, dock, slip, lake, pond, bank, harbor, river, stream,
sewer, or water, any manure or other refuse or vegetable or animal matter, or other filth.
5. It shall be the duty of the sanitary inspectors to keep a vigilant supervision
over all streets, lanes, by-ways, lots, or premises upon which any such
accumulation may be found and at once to notify the persons who own or occupy
such lots or premises, or who either personally or through their employees have
deposited such manure, refuse, matter, or filth, in any street, lane, or by-way,"
"BY-LAWS 13
to cleanse the same, and to remove what is found thereon; such persons shall forthwith
remove the same, and if the same be not removed within twenty-four hours after such
notification the inspector may prosecute the persons so offending. He shall also inspect
at intervals, as directed by the local board of health, all premises occupied by persons
residing within the municipality, and shall report to the board every violation of any of the
provisions of this by-law, or of any other regulation for the preservation of the public
health, and shall also report every case of refusal to permit him to make such inspection.
6. Whenever it shall appear to the local board, or to any of its officers, that it is
necessary for the preservation of the public health, or for the abatement of anything
dangerous or injurious to the public health, or whenever a notice signed by one or more
inhabitant householders of this municipality is received stating the condition of
any building in the municpalty to be so filthy as to be dangerous to the public health,
or that upon any premises in the municipality there is any foul or offensive ditch,
gutter, drain, privy, cess-pool, ash-pit, or cellar, kept or constructed so as to be
dangerous or injurious to the public health, or that upon any such premises an
accumulation of dung, manure, offal, filth, refuse, stagnant water, or other matter
or thing is kept, so as to be dangerous or injurious to the public health, it shall be
the duty of the sanitary inspector to enter such building or premises for the purpose
of examining the same, and, if necessary he shall order the removal of such
matter or thing. If the occupant or owner or his lawful agent or representative having
charge or control of such building or premises, after having had twenty-four hours' notice
from any such officer to remove or abate the same, he shall be subject to the penalties
mentioned in section 35.
7. If the local board is satisfied upon due examination that a cellar, room,
tenement, or building within the municipality, occupied as a dwelling-place
has become by reason of the number of occupants, want of cleanliness, the existence
therein of a communicable disease, or other cause, unfit for such purpose, or that it has
become a nuisance, or in any way dangerous or injurious to the health of the occupants,
or of the public, the board may give notice in writing to such occupants, or any of them,
requiring the premises to be put in proper sanitary condition, or requiring the occupants
to quit the premises within such time as the board may deem reasonable. If the
persons so notified, or any of them, neglect or refuse to comply with the
terms of the notice, every person so offending shall be liable to the penalties
mentioned in section 35, and the board may cause the premises to be properly
cleansed at the expense of the owners or occupants, or may remove the occupants
forcibly and close up the premises, and the same shall not again be occupied as a
dwelling-place until put into proper sanitary condition."
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8. No person shall at any time use any house, shop, or outhouse as a slaughterhouse
or as a place for slaughtering animals or fowls therein, unless such shop, house or
out-house is distant not less than 200 yards from, any dwelling house, and not less than
70 yards from any public street or road.
9. All slaughter houses within the Municipality shall be subject to inspection under the
direction of the local board of health: and no person shall keep any slaughter-house
unless the permission in writing of the board for the keeping of such slaughterhouse
has beer, first obtained, and remains unrevoked. Such permission shall be
granted, after approval of such premises upon inspection, subject to the condition that
the slaughter-house shall be so kept as to comply with the regulations of the Department
of Health respecting slaughter-houses, and upon such condition being broken the
permission may be revoked by the board; and all animals to be slaughtered,
and all fresh meat exposed for sale in this municipality shall be subject to like inspection.
10. All milch cows, cow byres and dairies, and all places in which milk is sold or kept for
general use, and all cheese-factories and creameries shall be subject to inspection under
the direction of the board; and the proprietors shall obtain permission in writing from
the board, to keep any such dairy or other place in which milk is sold or kept, or to keep a
cheese factory or creamery, and the same shall not be kept by any person without such
permission, which shall be granted after approval of such premises
upon inspection, subject to the condition that all such places are so kept and
conducted that the milk shall not contain any matter or thing liable to produce disease,
either by reason of adulteration, contamination with sewage, absorption of disease
germs, infection of cows, or any other cause, and upon such condition being broken the
said permission may be revoked by the board.
11. No person shall offer for sale within this municipality as food, any diseased
animal, or any meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, milk, or other article of food which,
by reason of disease adulteration, impurity, or other cause is unfit for use.
12. It shall be the duty of the owner of every house within this municipality to
provide for the occupants of the same a sufficient supply of wholesome drmking
water; or if any occupant of the house is not satisfied with the wholesomeness or
sufficiency of such supply, he may apply to the local board of health to
determine as to the same; and if the supply is sufficient and wholesome,
the expense incident to such determination shall be paid by such occupant;
and if not, by the owner; and in either case such expense shall be recoverable in the
same manner as municipal taxes."
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13. If the local board of health or the medical officer of health certify that any well should
be filled in or otherwise treated, such well shall be dealt with accordingly toy the owner or
occupant of the promises. Pending compliance with the order of the local board of health,
or the local medical officer of health, the local medical officer of health shall take such
measures as in his judgment may be necessary to prevent the use of water from the said
well. No well shall be used as a privy, privy-vault, or cess-pool.
14. No privy-vault, cess-pool, septic-tank or reservoir into which a privy,
water-closet, stable or sink is drained, shall be established until the approval in
writing of the medical officer of health has been obtained.
15. The next preceding section shall not apply to privies or closets with a
water-tight container above the surface of the ground, but sufficient dry earth,
wood ashes, coal ashes or other material to absorb all fluids of the deposit must be
thrown upon the contents of such privies daily, and the contents covered completely
with chloride of lime once each week. The contents when removed, shall be
disposed of in a sanitary manner to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health or
the local sanitary inspector.
16. If the exigencies or circumstances of the municipality require that privy-vaults,
cess-pools and reservoirs shall be allowed in accordance with section 14, they shall be
cleaned out or disinfected or both on the order of the medical officer of health,
or the local board of health.
17. Within the limits of this municipality, no night-soil or contents of
any cess-pool, septic-tank or reservoir shall be removed, unless the removal is
by some odorless process.
18. It shall be the duty of the owner of every house, apartment and place of business
within this municipality to provide for the occupants, employees and customers adequate
sanitary closets and toilet accommodation.
19. All putrid and decaying animal or vegetable matter must be removed from all
cellars, buildings, out-buildings and yards on or before the 15th day of May in each
year.
20. Every householder and every hotel and restaurant-keeper or other person shall
dispose of all garbage, for the disposal of which he is responsible, either by burning
the same or by placing it in a proper covered receptacle, the contents of which shall be
regularly removed, at least twice a week.
21. All restaurants or eating-houses operated in this municipality shall be required
to have wash rooms and toilets, one for males and one for females,
for the accommodation of the public."
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22. Swine shall not be kept within the limits of this municipality, except in pens,
with floors kept free from standing water and regularly cleansed and disinfected,
and distant at least 100 feet from any dwelling house, school house or church.
23. The keeper of every livery-stable or other stable shall keep his stable and
stable-yard clean, and shall not permit more than two wagon-loads of manure to
accumulate in or near the same at any one time, and shall at all times keep such
manure in a proper covered receptacle.
24. No house shall be built upon any site, the soil of which has been made up of any
refuse, unless such soil has been removed from such site, and the site disinfected,
or unless the soil has been covered with a layer of charcodl or ashes, covered by a layer
of concrete at least six inches thick and of such additional thickness as may be requisite
under the circumstances to prevent the escape of gases into such proposed house.
25. The drain of every house connected with a sewer or cess-pool shall be
properly ventilated by means of a pipe extending up'ward from the highest point of the
main soil or waste-pipe, and also by a pipe carried upward from the drain outside the
walls of the house. Such pipes shall be of the same dimensions as the main
soil or waste pipe, and shall be constructed of the same material,
or of stout galvanized iron, and no trap shall intervene 'between the ventilating pipes.
If a trap intervenes between the sewer or cess-pool and the ventilating pipes,
then a four-inch ventilating pipe of such material shall be carried from a point between
such trap and the sewer. Every ventilating pipe shall be carried above the roof of the
house, and shall open above a point sufficiently remote from every window, door,
sky-light, chimney or other opening leading into any house to prevent the escape into
it of gases from such ventilating pipes.
26. No pipe from any drain or soil pipe shall be connected with any chimney in a
dwelling house.
27. Every house-drain shall be constructed of vitrified earthenware or iron pipe,
or of such other material as shall have the approval of the local board and
medical officer of health; and every soil and waste-pipe of iron pipe shall be
rendered impervious
to gas or liquids, by the joints being run with lead and caulked or constructed of
lead pipe weighing at least six pcunds to the square foot; and the waste pipe from every
closet, sink, tub. wash-basin or other service shall have as near as possible to the point
of junction with such service a trap so constructed, vented and furnished that it shall at no
time allow of the passage of gas into the house. And all joints shall be so constructed as
to prevent gas escaping through them."
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28. The construction of any closet or other convenience which allows of the escape from
it or from the drain or soil-pipe into the house of air or gas is prohibited.
29. No pipe supplying water to a water-closet or urinal shall be directly connected
with a pipe supplying water for drinking purposes.
30. The medical officer of health or the secretary of the local board of health shall
provide each legally qualified medical practitioner, practicing within this municipality,
with blank forms on which he shall report cases of communicable disease to
the medical officer of health, and also with other blank forms on which to report death or
recovery from any such disease.
31. All such forms shall be so printed, gummed and folded that they may be readily
sealed without the use of any envelope and shall call for the following information.
Report of Communicable Disease.
Christian name and surname of patient :
Age of Patient:
Locality (giving name of village or lot and concession) :
Name of Disease :
Name of School attended by Children from that house :
Measures employed for isolation and disinfection :
Signature of Physician :
Report of Death or Recovery from Infectious Disease.
Christian name and surname of Patient :
Locality (giving name of village or lot and concession) :
Name of Disease :
How Long Sick :
Whether dead, or recovered :
Means of disinfection employed and when employed :
Signature of Physician :
32. The medical officer of health or one of the sanitary inspectors within six hours
after he has received notice of the existence in any house of any communicable
disease in respect of which it is his duty to do so, shall affix or cause to be affixed,
near the entrance of such house, in plain view of the public a card at least nine inches
wide and twelve inches long, stating that such disease exists in the house, and stating the
penalty for removal of such card without the permission of the medical officer of health,
and no person shall remove such card without his permission."
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33. No animal suffering from, any communicable disease shall be brought or kept
within this municipality except by permission of the medical officer of health.
34. Any person who violates sections 4. 6. 7. 9. or 11. of this by-law, or section 24
or sections32 or 33, shall for every offence incur a penalty of not less than $5.00 nor
more than $50.00 and any person who violates any other provision of this by-law
shall for every offence incur a penalty of not more than $20.00; and such penalties
shall be recoverable under the Summary Convictions Act.
35. This by-law is passed under authority of the Public Health Act and in the place
and stead of the by-law forming Schedule B. of the said Act.
36. The said by-law forming Schedule B. to the said Public Health Act is hereby
repealed, and by-law No. 742 and all other toy-laws or parts of by-laws of this
Corporation that are contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this by-law,
be and the same are hereby repealed.
Passed December 2nd. 1929.
G. M. Forsylh, Reeve. Donald R. Beaton, Clerk."
"BY-LAWS 19
BY-LAW NO. 1336.
By-law to prohibit spitting on sidewalks and pavements and in o-ther places within the
Township of Pickering.
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering enacts as
follows:
1. That spitting on sidewalks and pavements and in the passages and stairways
of and entrances to public buildings and in buildings, halls rooms and other places
to which the public resort, and other public conveyances, within the Township of
Pickering, is hereby prohibited.
2. That any person violating the provisions of this by-law shall for every offence
incur a penalty of not less than $1.00 nor more than $50.00 in the discretion of the
convicting Police Magistrate, besides costs, and such penalties shall be
recoverable under the Summary Convictions Act.
3. By-law No. 1167 of this Corporation is hereby repealed.
Passed December 2nd. 1929.
G.M. Forsyth. Reeve. Donald R. Beaton, Clerk"
"20 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NO. 1443
of the Municipal Corporation of the Township of Pickering.
A By-law for licensing, regulating and governing hawkers, pedlars and petty chapmen,
and other persons carrying on petty trades in the Township of Pickering.
BE IT ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of
Pickering.
1. That subject to the provisions contained in Section No. 13 of this by-law,
no person shall, within the said Township of Pickering, hawk or peddle goods,
wares or merchandise for sale, or go from place to place, or to other men's houses,
on foot, or with any animal, vehicle, boat, vessel or other craft, bearing or drawing goods,
wares or merchandise for sale, or otherwise carry goods, wares or merchandise for sale,
or go from place to place or to other men's houses to take orders for coal oil or gasoline
or other oil. to be delivered afterwards from a tank car moved on a railway line, or go
from place to place to make sales or deliveries of coal oil or other oils or gasoline from
such tank car, without having first procured a license entitling him to do so under the
provisions of this by-law.
2. Such license shall be issued1 by the Township Clerk to every such hawker, pedlar,
petty chapman, or other person carrying on petty trade, or going from place to place or
otherwise as in the first section of this by-law mentioned, upon his paying to the Treasurer
of the Township of Pickering the proper license fee therefor, as herein provided, and
producing to the Clerk of the said Township the Treasurer's receipt for such license fee;
and every such license shall be signed by the Reeve and countersigned by the Clerk and
the Corporate Seal shall be affixed thereto, and every such license shall express
upon its face the period during which it shall be in force and shall be subject to the
regulations and conditions hereinafter mentioned.
3. The sums to be paid for such licenses for the whole Township of Pickering shall be
as follows:
Every person travelling on foot, the sum of $10.00
Every person travelling with an animal bearing or drawing a burden the sum of $20.00
and for every extra animal the sum of $5.00. (Five Dollars).
Every person travelling by a motor passenger car, the sum of $100.00."
"BY-LAWS 21
Every person travelling by a light motor truck, the sum of
$100.00. Every person travelling by a heavy motor truck, the sum of
$100.00
Every person trading -with a boat or other craft and exposing for sale goods,
wares or merchandise, for such boat or craft, the sum of $50.00.
Provided, however, that in the case of an applicant for any such license being a person
who has resided continuously within the Township of Pickering for at least one year prior
to the application therefor, the license fee payable as noted above shall be reduced and
abated to the extent of 90 per cent.
4. Every such license shall remain in force for one year from the date of its being issued,
including the day of the date of the issuing thereof.
5. A license shall be required for each horse and vehicle, or each team of horses and
vehicles, or motor vehicle so employed in hawking or peddling, or exercising any of the
trades, calling or occupations mentioned or referred1 to in the first section of this by-law.
6. No such license shall be transferable, nor shall it be used except by the person to
whom it was originally issued, but providing, however, that the holder of one or more of
such licenses may by a memorandum endorsed on such license and signed by him,
authorize any one of his servants or employees named in such memorandum and -whose
signature is written on the margin opposite such memorandum, of authority, to hawk,
pedd'le or exercise any such trade, calling or occupation as aforesaid under such
license during the currency thereof.
7. Every holder of a license under this By-law who allows his license to be used in
contravention of this by-law may, upon conviction have his license forfeited by the
convicting Magistrate, in addition to being liable to the penalties hereinafter mentioned.
8. That it shall be the duty of the holder of every such license to exhibit the same to any
peace officer or Magistrate of the County of Ontario, or to any officer or officers
appointed by the Council to enforce this by-law, or to any person to -whom the holder
thereof shall offer goods for sale, or to any ratepayer of the Township of Pickering,
or to the holder of a license under this by-law, whenever the same shall be demanded,
under a penalty of at least $1.00 and not more than $5.00 for every such offence,
to be recovered as hereinafter provided.
9. Every person Obtaining a license under the provisions of this by-law
(except persons travelling on foot) shall attach or cause to be attached on some
conspicuous place on the animal, vehicle or vessel as the case may foe, painted upon a
piece of tin or other metal plate, or on the said vehicle or boat the words ""Licensed
Peddlar Pickering Township"" and for neglect thereof shall foe liable to the"
"22 BY-LAWS
same fines, penalties and costs as may be imposed by this by-law for the violation of
Section 8 hereof; and any person continuing to exhibit the same after the expiry of his
license, shall be liable to the same fines, penalties and costs as for violation of Section
8 hereof, to be recovered as hereinafter provided.
10. That in the event of any person offending against any ot the provisions of this by-law,
it shall be competent for and be the duty of every Constable, Peace Officer or other
person being cognizant of such offence to make complaint thereof before any Justice
of the Peace or Magistrate having jurisdiction within the said Township of Pickering.
11. Any person offending against any of the provisions of this by-law
(except the provisions of Section 8 and 9) shall, on conviction by summary
conviction before any Magistrate having jurisdiction in the premises,
be liable to be punished by a fine of not less than $10.00 and not exceeding
$20.00 and the legal costs ot prosecution, and on default of payment forthwith
of the fine so inflicted and of the said costs, the said fine and costs shall be levied by
distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender, and in case of there being
no distress found out of which the said fine and costs can be levied, such offender shall
be liable to be punished by imprisonment in the County Gaol of the County of Ontario
for any period not exceeding twenty-one days, with or without hard labor, unless such
fine and costs, including the costs and charges of conveying such offender to the
said County Gaol (the costs thereof being ascertained and stated in the conviction)
are sooner paid
12. That when any fine or penalty has been levied under this by-law one
moiety or half part shall go and be paid to the informant or prosecutor, and the other
moiety or one-half part thereof shall be paid to the Treasurer of this Corporation and
constitute a part of the funds of the Corporation
13. No such license as aforesaid shall be required for hawking. peddling or
selling goods, wares or merchandise to a retail dealer, or foi hawking, peddling or
selling goods, wares or mechandise the growth, produce or manufacture of Ontario,
not being liquors within the meaning of the Liquor Control Act, if the same are hawked,
or peddled by the manufacturer producer of them, or by his bona fide servants or
employees having written authority to do so but such servant or employee shall
exhibit his authority when required so to do by any municipal or peace officer,
and in a prosecution for a breach of this by-law the onus of proving that he does
not require to be licensed shall be upon the person charged
PASSED this eighth day of July, 1935
R. C. REESOR, Reeve DONALD R. BEATON. Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 23
BY-LAW NUMBER 1461
of the Municipal Corporation of the Township of Pickering.
By-law to amend By-law No. 1443 of the said Municipal Corporation, entitled ""A By-Law
for licensing, regulating and governing hawkers, peddlars and petty chapmen, and other
persons carrying on petty trades in the Township of Pickering.""
BE IT ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of
Pickering:
1. THAT Section 3 of the said By-law Number 1443 be and the same is hereby repealed
and the following Section enacted and substituted in place thereof, that is to say :
""3. The sums to be paid for such licenses for the whole of the Township of Pickering
9hall be as follows :
Every person travelling on foot, the sum of $10.00
Every person travelling with an animal bearing or drawing a Durden, the sum of $20.00:
And for every extra animal the additional sum of $5.00,
Every person travelling Dy motor cai or truck, the sum of $50.00
Every person trading with a boat or other water craft and exposing for sale goods,
wares or merchandise, for each such boat or other craft the sum of $50.00
Provided, nowever, that in the case of an applicant loi such license being a person
who has resided continuously within the Township of Pickering for at least six months
prior to his application for such license and satisfies the Reeve or Council of this
municipality that he has not taken up residence temporarily for the purpose .>f securing
the license desired at a lower rate, then the license fees as noted above shall be
reduced and abated to the extent oi eighty per cent ""
2 THAT all such licenses hereafter issued in the present year 1936 shall be for the
term ending with the said year, and the fees tor all such licenses that may be so issued
on or after this date in the present year shall be a proportionate portion of the fees
reinbefore fixed for such licenses for a full calendar year, according to the portion of said
vear remaining unexpired: and following from"
"24 BY-LAWS
and after the year 1036 all such licenses shall be issued for the then calendar year,
or unexpired part of the then current calendar year 'but in every instance ending at the
termination of each calendar year; and for all such licenses so issued after the end of
the said year 1936 the full amoust of the fees set forth in the said By-law 1443, as now
amended by this By-law, shall be payable respectively.
3. That Section 9 of the said By-law Number 1443 be hereby amended by adding
thereto at the end thereof the following words and figures, that is to say: ""And, following
the year 1936, all such license plates shall bear the name of the municipality, the number
of the license -which it indicates, and the year of issue.""
4. That the said By-law Number 1443 is hereby amended so as to conform to all the
provisions of this By-law.
5. In all other respects the said By-law Number 1443 is hereby confirmed.
PASSED JULY 13th 1936.
R. C. REESOR, REEVE DONALD R. BEATON, CLERK"
"BY-LAWS 25
BY-LAW NUMBER 1499
By-law to amend By-law No. 1443 of the Municipal Corporation of the Township of
Pickering entitled ""A By-law for licensing, regulating and governing hawkers, peddlars
and petty chapmen and persons carrying on petty trades in the Township of Pickering"",
as the said By-law has been amended by By-law No. 1461 of the said Municipal
Corporation.
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering ENACTS AS
FOLLOWS :
That Section 3 of the said By-law No. 1443 as amended by the said By-law No. 1461
be hereby repealed and the following enacted and substituted in place thereof, that is to
say :
""The sums to be paid for such licenses for the whole of the Township of Pickering shall
be as follows :
""Every person travelling on foot the sum of $10.00.
""Every person travelling with an animal bearing or drawing a burden, the sum of $20.00,
and for every extra animal the additional sum of $5,00.
""Every person travelling by motor car or truck the sum of $50.00
""Every person trading with a boat or other watercraft and exposing for sale goods,
wares or merchandise, for cash such boat or craft, the sum of $50.00.
""Provided, however, that in the case of an applicant for such license being a person
who has resided continuously within the Township of Pickering for at least six months
prior to his application for such license and satisfies the Reeve or Council of the
Municipality that he has not taken up residence temporarily for the purpose of securing
the license desired at a lower rate, then the license fees as noted above shall be
reduced and abated to the extent of ninety-per cent (90%).
PASSED July 4th. 1938.
RALPH E. MOWBRAY. Reeve DONALD R. BEATON, Clerk"
"26 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1528
A By-law to regulate the setting out of fires within the limits of the Township of
Pickering and to prohibit the making of fires on any of the public highways in the said
township.
WHEREAS the practice of some week-end visiting motorists of picnicking on quiet,
little travelled sidelines and making fires there en for one purpose and another has in
more than one instance resulted in the destruction of considerable adjacent crops,
fences and trees;
AND WHEREAS the burning of dead grass on lands in proximity to buildings and the
lighting of bonfires in villages and other places are found to be dangerous, with resultant
loss and inconvenience and it is expedient to regulate such fires;
NOW THEREFORE it is enacted by the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering:
(1) That in future it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to make or start a fire on
any of the public highways, streets or roads within the limits of the Township of Pickering
except as herein provided.
(21 No person shall set out or light any bonfire or fire for the burning of rubbish, grass,
brush, leaves, or for any other like pur-post, between the hour of sunset and the hour of
sunrise of the following day, or allow any such fire to continue after the hour of sunset,
within the limits of the said Township.
C9) Any person who lights a fire for the burning of rubbish, grass, brush, leaves, or for
any other lawful purpose shall, before doing so. take all necessary precautions to prevent
the spread therecf, and shall, before the Are is lighted, and during the whole of the time
the fire is burning, keep a sufficient number of persons immediately available for the
purpose of controlling and preventing such fire from spreading.
(4) No such fire shall be set, lighted or permitted to burn within twenty feet of any frame
or woe den or partly wooden building, nor within fifteen feet of any brick, stucco,
or concrete building.
(5) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this By-Law shall be liable
upon conviction thereof before a Magistrate having jurisdiction, to a fine not exceeding
fifty dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, to be recoverable under the provisions
of the Ontario Summary Convictions Act; and on default of payment thereof,
to imprisonment in the common jail of the County of Ontario for a period not exceeding
ten days, unless such fine and costs be sooner paid.
(6) That By-Law Number 1370 of the Corporation of the Township cf Pick< ring be
and the same is hereby repealed.
PASSED September 5th. 1939
RALPH E. MOWBRAY, REEVE DONALD R. BEATON, CLERK"
"BY-LAWS 27
BY-LAW NUMBER 1561
of the Municipal Corporation of the Township of Pickering.
A By-law for licensing, regulating and governing owners and drivers of cabs, busses,
motor and other vehicles regularly used for hire within the Township of Pickering.
BE IT ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of
Pickering, as follows:
1. ""CAB"" shall mean any vehicle regularly used for hire for the conveyance of
persons within the Township of Pickering, but shall not include any motor vehicle
licensed to convey children to school lor which a small charge is made.
2. The owner of any cab, hotel omnibus or sight-seeing coach, before using or
operating same and allowing same to be used or operated within the Township
of Pickering, shall first obtain a license entitling him so to do, which said license
may be in the form ""A"" to this By-law annexed, or in like form, and such owner shall,
prior to obtaining his license, pay a fee of $10.00 therefor to the Treasurer of this
Municipality, and he shall not own or drive any cab unless so licensed.
3. No person shall drive, or act as driver of, any cab. hotel omnibus cr
sight-seeing coach within the Township of Pickering without having obtained a
license enabling him to do so, which said license may be in the form (B) to this
By-law annexed, or in like form, and such person shall, prior to obtaining his license,
pay a fee of $5.00 therefor to the Treasurer of this Municipality. ($1.00 as amended
By-law 1886)
4. Every owner of more than one vehicle required to be licensed under this By-law,
shall take out a separate license for each vehicle, but shall only pay a fee of $5.00 for
each additional vehicle.
5. No person licensed under this By-law shall carry in any vehicle used for
hire a greater number of occupants or persons than the manufacturer's rating of seating
capacity of such vehicle, inclusive of the driver.
6. The owner or driver of every cab shall keep the interior and exterior of every cab or
other vehicle licensed under this By-law clean, dry and in good repair, and whenever the
owner of any such"
"28 BY-LAWS
vehicle receives notice, either given to him or his driver, and signed by the Chief
Constable, that such vehicle is not in a fit or proper condition for use, stating briefly the
items complained of, such owners shall within the time mentioned in such notice,
put the same in a fit and proper condition. Every vehicle shall also be equipped with an
extra tire.
7. The owner of a cab, hotel omnibus or sight-seeing coach, in respect of which a
license has been issued under this By-law, shall, when required, submit his vehicle
for examination by the Chief Constable or other officer authorized by him,
and no owner or driver shall at any time, when his vehicle is not employed, prevent or
hinder the said Chief Constable or any officer authorized by him. from entering the same,
or at any time prevent or hinder him from entering his garage or other building for the
purpose of inspecting the same.
8. When any licensed owner disposes of his vehicle and acquires another vehicle,
he shall submit the latter vehicle to the Chief Constable for approval before using
the same.
9. No licensed owner of any vehicle shall employ any person, other than a
licensed driver, as a driver of his vehicle. Every owner and driver licensed
under this By-law shall be of the full age of twenty-one years.
10. The license provided for by this By-law shall be issued by the Chief Constable,
who shall sign all licenses issued under this By-law, the fees payable therefor
having been first paid to the Township Treasurer.
11. Any person convicted of a breach of any provision of this By-law shall
forfeit and pay, at the discretion of the convicting Magistrate, a penalty not
exceeding (exclusive of costs) the sum of $50.00 for each offence.
12. The license of any person convicted of a breach of any provision of
this By-law or found guilty by the Council of this Municipality of any breach of any
provision of this By-law, may be revoked or cancelled.
THIS BY-LAW shall come into force and take effect at once from and after the
passing of the same.
PASSED May 5th, 1941.
'Signed' WM. REESOR, Reeve (Signed) DONALD R. BEATON, Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 29
FORM ""A""
CHAUFFEUR LICENSE NO....................
CAB LICENSE NO......
CAB OWNER'S LICENSE
This is to certify that ........................................................................
of ..................................................., is hereby licensed to keep an
Auto-Cab No................................
for hire in the Township of Pickering.
This License is to be in force from the date hereof until the 31st day of December
following, and is issued pursuant to the provisions of BY-LAW Number 1961, or any
amendment thereto, or of any By-laws passed in lieu thereof.
This License is not transferable.
Dated this ....................... day of ................................................ 19 ......
CHIEF CONSTABLE
RECEIVED the sum of .................... Dollars for the above license.
TREASURER
FORM ""B"" CAB DRIVER'S LICENSE
CHAUFFEUR LICENSE NO.........................
CAB BADGE NO. ................................
DATED this .................................... day of ............................ 19.......
Name in full.................................................................................................
Address ..................................................................................................
This license is issued subject to the conditions of any or all By-Laws of the Township of
Pickering relating to owners and drivers of cabs and other vehicles.
This is to certify that .............................................................................
is hereby licensed as a cab driver.
This license is in force from the date hereof until the 31st day of December following.
This license cannot be transferred or sold.
RECEIVED the sum of ............................... for the above license.
TREASURER CHIEF CONSTABLE Signature of Licensed Person"
"30 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1562
A By-Law for causing the removal of trees from any of the public highways of the
Township of Pickering when in the public interest to do so. and for removing decayed
or dangerous trees from any such public highway, and for protecting trees on the said
highway from loss, mutilation or destruction.
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the
Township of Pickering:
1. Any tree planted upon a highway in the said Township may be removed when
deemed necessary in the public interest, but the owner of the lands adjacent to the
highway and nearest to the tree shall be given at least ten days notice of the intention
of the Council to remove such tree and be recomrx nsed for his trouble in planting and
protecting it, and, if he so desires, shall be entitled to himself remove the tree, but shall
not be entitled to any further or other compensation.
2. This Council may prohibit the planting of any species of trees upon any of the public
highways in the said Township which it deems unsuited, and may direct the
removal, without notice, of such trees growing on any such highway or planted
thereon, contrary to the provisions of this By-Law.
3. This Council may authorize any officer or committee of the Council to supervise
the planting of trees upon the highways of the said Township and the trimming of trees
planted upon a highway or upon private property where the branches extend over a
highway. or to remove decayed or dangerous trees, or trees which have, by By-Law of
the Municipality, been directed to be removed.
4. Notices required to be given by Clause One of this By-Law may be given by leaving
the same with a grown-up person residing on the land, or. if the land is not occupied,
by posting same in a conspicuous place on the land where the tree is growing.
5. Any person who ties or fastens any animal to, or injures or destroys a tree growing
upon a highway, or who suffers or permits any animal in his charge to injure or destroy
any such tree, without first having obtained permission so to do by special resolution
of the Council of this Municipality, and contrary to the provisions of this By-Law,
shall incur a penalty not exceeding Twenty-Five Dollars, one-half of which penalty
shall go to the person laying the information and the other one-half thereof to this
Municipality for the general purposes thereof.
6. It shall be the duty of this Coun-cil to appoint an Inspector of Trees, whose duty
shall be as defined in this By-Law and by Section 511 of the Municipal Act. Revised
Statutes of Ontario, 1937, Chapter 266.
7. All By-Laws of this Corporation inconsistent with the provisions of this
By-Law be and the same are hereby repealed.
PASSED this 5th day of May, 1941.
WILLIAM REESOR, Reeve DONALD R. BEATON, Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 31
BY-LAW NUMBER 1571
A By-law to restrict the speed of vehicles on certain roads in the Township of Pickering.
WHEREAS Subsection 2A of Section 23 of the Highway Traffic Act as amended by
Subsection 3 of Section 2 of the Highway Traffic Amendment Act, 1937, provides that:
The Council of any Township may by reason of density of population or number and
proximity of buildings therein or in any part thereof by By-Law approved by the
Department prohibit a motor vehicle from being operated at a greater rate of
speed than thirty miles per hour in the Township or in such part or parts thereof or on
such highways or parts of highways therein as the By-Law may define.
AND WHEREAS it is deemed expedient by reason of the density cf population and
number and proximity of buildings adjacent thereto that speed of vehicles on certain
portions of roads in the Township of Pickering be restricted.
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the
Township of Pickering:
1. No vehicle may be driven upon the following designated portions of highways in the
Township of Pickering at a greater rate of speed than 30 miles per hour, that is to say :
FIRSTLY. On that portion of the Brock Road which is contained within the limits of the
Police Village of Claremont and extends from a point which is 50 rods south of the
northern limits of Lots Nos. 18 and 19 in the 8th Concession of the said Township in a
northerly direction to a point that is 300 rods north of the southern limits of Lots Nos. 18
and 19 in the 9th Concession of the said Township, the said Brock Road being a county
road which extends from the Provincial Highway No. 2 in a northerly direction to the
townline between the Townships of Pickering and Uxbridge,
and SECONDLY. The portion of the county highway described as the 9th Concession
line of the said Township of Pickering which extends from a point which is 10 rods east
of the South-West angle of Lot Number 17 in the 9th Concession of the said Township of
Pickering in a westerly direction to a point at the south-westerly angle of Lot No. 19 in the
said 9th Concession, a distance of 174 rods, the same being all within the limits of the
said Police Village of Claremont."
"32 BY-LAWS
2. Every person who violates any of the provisions of this Bylaw shall incur the penalties
provided in Subsection 3 of Section 23 of the Highway-Traffic Act
(R.S.O., Chapter 51, 1927).
3. The provisions of this By-Law shall not become effective until signs have
been erected in compliance with the regulations of the Department of Highways.
4. Subject to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, this By-Law shall take
effect upon, from and after receiving the approval of the Department of Highways.
PASSED October 6th, 1941.
WILLIAM REESOR, Reeve DONALD R. BEATON, Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 33
BY-LAW NUMBER 1665
A. By-Law of the Township of Pickering for the licensing and regulating of Restaurants
and Lunch Counters.
THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL of the Township of Pickering ENACTS AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1.
From and after the final passing of this By-Law, a license shall be required to enable any
person or persons, within the limits of the Township of Pickering to conduct, maintain
and carry on a Restaurant or Lunch Counter.
Licenses for the keeping and carrying on of a restaurant or lunch counter shall be issued
and signed by the Chief Constable of the Township of Pickering upon payment of the
sum of Three Dollars ($3.00) per annum and up to the 2nd day of January next a
proportionate part of such sum shall be payable for the balance of the year, the said
license, after issue shall continue in force until the first day of January following, unless
revoked as in this By-Law is provided.
Section 2.
The license holder, under such license, shall observe, keep and obey all provisions of
the Ontario Liquor Control Act. as to the sale of intoxicating liquors, and of this By-Law,
and of any amendments thereto, which shall hereafter be passed by By-Law or resolution
of this Council.
Section 3.
All wurlitzers, nickelodeons and juke boxes operated on the premises of any person
holding a license under this By-Law, shall be disconnected promptly at 12 o'clock
midnight and shall not be played between said hour and 7 o'clock in the morning.
Section 4.
For any violation of the terms of this By-Law any person shall be liable to a fine of not
less than $25.00 for the first offence and not less than $50.00 for each subsequent
offence.
And the license so issued may be cancelled by resolution of the Council of the Township
of Pickering for this purpose.
THAT By-Law Number 1662 be and the same is hereby repealed. PASSED this 5th day
of June, 1945
D. B. ANNIS. Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON. Clerk"
"34 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1667
A By-law foi prohibiting slot machines, pin ball games, etc.. within the limits
of the Township of Pickering.
THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL of the Township of Pickering ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
From and after the passing of this By-Law, no person occupying any premises in the
Township of Pickering, and carrying on therein the business of a barber, billiard or pool
room, snooker table, bowling alley, carnival, cigarette or tobacco vender, circus, dance
hall, refreshment booth, restaurant, hot dog stand, skating rink, theatre or any other
business, shall keep on their premises any slot machine, pin game, pin ball game,
punch board, ball game or any other similar device, whether played or not.
Any person upon conviction before a Magistrate or a Justice of the Peace, shall be
fined for a first offense the sum of $50.00 and costs, and for a second or any subsequent
offense the sum of $100.00 and costs.
PASSED this 3rd day of July, 1945.
D. B. Annis, Reeve. L. T. Johnston, Clerk."
"BY-LAWS 35
BY-LAW No. 1686
By-law No. 1686 of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering, setting apart the
Township School Area of Township of Pickering School Area No. 1.
WHEREAS it is expedient that a township school area be set apart :
THEREFORE the Council of the Township of Pickering pursuant to the authority
conferred by subsection (1) of Section 15 of the Public Schools Act. R.S.O. 1937,
chapter 357. enacts as follows :
1. The portion of the Township described in section 2 hereof is hereby set apart as a
township school area.
2. The said township school area shall consist of School Sections 1, 4 E and
Union 1. and all the lots in Broken Front Ranges 2 and 3, from Nos. 1 to those
portions of lots 13 and 14 which lie east of the centre line of Duffln's Creek;
all the lots in the 1st and 2nd Concessions from Nos. 1 to 12 inclusive,
and south half lot 1. all lot 2. south half lots 8, 9. 10 and 11 in the 3rd Concession;
save and except all properties expropriated by His Majesty the King,
from which no taxes are received by this municipality.
3. The board of school trustees of the said township school area is hereby
designated as ""Township of Pickering School Area No. 1.""
4. On and after the 25th day of December, 1946, the school sections included
in the said township school area shall cease to exist as separate school sections,
and the school boards having jurisdiction in such sections shall be dissolved.
5. This by-law shall take effect from the 1st day of April 1946.
PASSED this 1st day of April, 1946. First Reading : 4th day of March, 1946.
Second Reading : 4th day of March, 1946. Third Reading : 1st day of April, 1946.
(Signed) D. B. Annis. Reeve. (Signed) L. T. Johnston, Clerk."
"36 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW No, 1746
A By-law to restrict the speed of vehicles on certain roads in the Township of Pickering.
Whereas sub-section 2A of Section 23 of the Highway Traffio Act as amended by
sub-section 3 of Section 2 of the Highway Traffic Amendment Act, 1937, provides that :
The Council of any township may by reason of density of population or number and
proximity of buildings therein or in any part thereof by By-law approved by the Department
prohibit a motor vehicle from being operated at a greater rate of speed than thirty miles
per hour in the Township or in such part or parts thereof or on such highways or parts of
highways therein as the By-law may define.
And Whereas it is deemed expedient by reason of the density of population and number
and proximity of buildings adjacent thereto that speed of vehicles on certain portions of
roads in the Township of Pickering be restricted.
Now. therefore, the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering,
in the County of Ontario, enacts as follows :
1. No vehicle may be driven upon the following designated portion of highway in the
Township of Pickering at a greater rate of speed than 30 miles per hour, that is to say :
The sideline between lots 32--33, between No. 2 Highway and the 1st Concession Line.
2. Every person who violates any of the provisions of this By-law shall incur the
penalties provided in sub-section 3 of Section 23 of the Highway Traffic Act (R.S.O.,
Chapter 251, 1927).
3. The provisions of this By-law shall not become effective until signs have been
erected in compliance with the regulations of the Department of Highways.
4. Subject to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, this
By-law shall take effect upon, from and after receiving the approval of the
Department of Highways.
Passed this 3rd day of May, 1948.
W. H. Westney, Reeve. L. T. Johnston, Clerk."
"BY-LAWS 37
BY-LAW No. 1754
of the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering lo appoint members to the
Pickering-Whitby Township Planning Board.
WHEREAS at a joint meeting of the Councils of the Townships of Whitby and
Pickering held at Brougham on the 26th day of July, 1948, it was agreed that the
Townships of Pickering and Whitby should form a joint Planning Board,
comprising the whole of the Townships of Pickering annd Whitby except the Ajax area,
that the costs of such a Board should be borne Pickering 65% and Whitby 35 &, that
Pickering Township should have four members and Whitby Township two members,
and that application for such a Board be made to the Department of Planning and
Development.
AMD WHEREAS under date of July 29th. 1948, the Department of Planning and
Development have given their approval for a joint Planning Board comprising the
Townships of Pickering and Whitby;
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering
that the following named persons be members of the Pickering-Whitby Planning Board
for the term as specified :
1. Cyril Morley for three years
2. Roy Morrish for two years
3. John Powers for one year
4. Clare Balsdon for one year
PASSED this 3rd day of August. 1948.
W. H. Westoey, Reeve.
L. T. Johnston. Clerk.
(Corporate Seal)"
"38 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW No. 1757
A By-Law of the Municipality of the Township of Pickering, to make a change in the
Municipal Voting hours.
WHEREAS the present hours for the opening and closing of the Poll for Municipal
Elections are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
AND WHEREAS Council feel that the best interests of the Municipality would be
served if said Poll was open later so that residents who obtain employment outside
the Township may have time to vote after working hours.
AND WHEREAS Chapter 266, R.S.O. Section 112, sub-section 2, provides that the
said Poll must remain open eight consecutive hours between the hours of 9 a.m. and
9 p.m.
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering :
1. THAT the Poll shall be opened at every polling place at 10 a.m. o'clock in the
forenoon, and shall be kept open until 8 p.m. o'clock in the afternoon.
2. THAT all By-Laws contrary to or inconsistent with this
By-Law shall be repealed.
PASSED this 4th day of October, 1948.
W. H. Westney, Reeve. L. T. Johnston, Clerk."
"BY-LAWS 39
BY-LAW No. 1771
Of the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering to repeal By-law No. 1697.
WHEREAS on September 3rd, 1946, the Council of the Township of Pickering passed
By-law No. 1697, whereby the Township jf Pickering was designated as an Urban
Development Area under Section 23 of the Planning Act. Section 23 of the Planning
Act has aeen repealed, and the following substituted therefor :
23. (1) The Council may by by-law designate any area within the Municipality as an
urban development area and thereupon no person shall convey land in the area by
way of a deed or transfer on any sale or enter into an agreement of sale and purchase
or enter into any agreement that has the effect of granting the use of or right in the land
directly or by entitlement to renewal for a period of twenty-one years or more -
(a) unless the land is described in accordance with and is within a registered plan of
subdivision,
(b) unless the land is more than ten acres in area,
(c) Unless the land is the whole part remaining to the person of one parcel described
in a registered conveyance to him; or
(d) unless the consent of the Planning Board, if any, or where there is a subsidiary
planning area, the planning board thereof, or the Minister, is given,
(2) At least two, or as many as may be required, certified copies of the By-law shall be
lodged in the office of the Minister where the same shall be available for public inspection
during office hours and registered in the proper registry office where the same shall be
made available to the public as productions.
(3) When an area is designed as an urban development area it shall not be altered or
dissolved without the approval of the Minister.
(4) Every person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and
liable to a penalty of not more than $500. recoverable under The Summary
Convictions Act."
"40 BY-LAWS
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering enacts
as follows :
The provisions of the By-law shall apply to the whole of the Township of Pickering, that is,
from Lake Ontario to the Uxbridge Townline. and from the Township of Whitby to the
Townships of Scarboro and Markham on the West, and include Broken Front Range
1—lots 34 - 35; Broken Front Range 2 lots 1 to 35 inclusive. Broken Front Range 3
lots 1 to 35 inclusive; Concession 1 lots 1 to 35 inclusive; Concession 2 lots 1 to 36
inclusive; concession 3 lots 1 to 35 inclusive; concession 4 lots 1 to 35 inclusive;
Concession 5 lots 1 to 35 inclusive; Concession 66 lots 1 to 35 inclusive;
Concession 7 lots 1 to 35 inclusive; Concession 8 lots 1 to 35 inclusive;
Concession 9 lots 1 to 35 inclusive.
The By-law No. 1697 be, and the same is hereby repealed.
BY-LAW read a first and second time December 2nd, 1948.
BY-LAW read a third time and passed January 24, 1949.
(Signed) W. H. Westney, Reeve. CSeal)
L. T. Johnston, Clerk."
"BY-LAWS 41
BY-LAW NUMBER 1784
A By-Law Restricting Parking in the Township of Pickering
The Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering ENACTS AS
FOLLOWS:
DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this By-Law:-
PARK means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than
temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
STREET or HIGHWAY includes a common or public highway, street, avenue, parkway,
driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle, designed and intended for, or used by,
the general public for the passage of vehicles.
VEHICLE means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be
transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power.
PARKING RESTRICTIONS
When properly worded signs have been erected and are on display no person shall park
a vehicle on any designated street in the Township of Pickering:-
The East side of the travelled portion of the roadway of the sideline between Lots Nos. 8
and 9 in the North half of the First Concession of the Township of Pickering, this road
being known as UNIVERSITY DRIVE, which lies on the west side of subdivision lots
134-99-98-97-96 in Plan 377.
PENALTY
Any person violating any of the provisions of this By-Law shall be subject to a penalty of
not more than Ten Dollars ($10.00) for the first offence and not more than Twenty-five
Dollars <$25.00) for every subsequent offence, exclusive of costs, and all such
penalties
shall be recoverable under the Ontario Summary Convictions Act.
This By-Law shall not become effective until approved by the Department of Highways
and until the signs referred to herein have been erected and are on display.
By-Law read a First time this 1st day of December, 1949
By-Law read a Second time this 1st day of December 1949
By-Law read a Third time and Passed this 1st day of Dec, 1949
W.H. Westney, Reeve L.T. Johnston. Clerk"
"42 BV-LAWS
BY-LAW No. 1787
A By-Law to regulate the bulk and curtilage of all Dwelling Houses hereafter
to be erected in the Township of Pickering.
BE IT ENACTED, therefore, by the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the
TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
The following terms when used in this By-Law shall have the meanings assigned
to them as follows :
YARD Shall mean an open space located on the same lot as the building which it serves,
unoccupied from the ground to the sky except for structures specifically authorized by this
By-Law
SIDE-YARD Shall mean a yard located between the side wall of the building served and
the side lot line and extending through from the street line to the rear line of the lot.
DWELLING HOUSE Shall mean a building designed, intended for, or used solely for
year-round habitable purposes.
SUMMER COTTAGE Shall mean a building designed, intended for, or used solely for
temporary habitable purposes, and for not more than six (6) months in any consecutive
twelve-month period
1. No DWELLING HOUSE or SUMMER COTTAGE hereafter to be erected within the
Township of Pickering of one storey in height shall have a ground floor area of less than
seven hundred (700) square feet, and no DWELLING HOUSE or SUMMER COTTAGE
of more than one storey in height shall have a ground floor area of less than six hundred
(600) square feet, and in each instance the ground floor area shall mean the maximum
projected horizontal area of the Dwelling House or Summer Cottage above ground
including the main outside walls properly supported by a continuous foundation wall
but excluding garages whether attached or not porches, terraces, breezeways or any
other appurtenant structure or lean-to which is not an integral part of the main habitable
structure.
2 (a) No Summer Cottage or Cabin may be converted or used tor Dwelling House
purposes unless it conforms to the requirements of the Building By-Law and the
requirements of this By-Law.
(b) Trailer Camps and Overnight Cabins will not be per mittea nereafter in the
Township of Pickering
3 Except as hereinafter provided, no Dwelling House or part tnereof, shall be so
situated on the lot that its main front wall will be closer to the street line than thirty
(30) feet.
4. (a) A Side-Yard shall be provided on each side of a Dwelling
House The minimum width of each Side-Yard shall be ten (10) feet.
(b) Except as provided in Sub-section (c) of this Section, no
building shall be erected in such side-yard, except that a private
garage either detached from or attached to the Dwelling House"
"BY-LAWS 43
which it serves, may be erected therein, but the front wall of such garage shall not project
nearer the street line than the front wall of the dwelling house.
(c) Provided that in respect of any parcel of land held under separate ownership at the
time of the passing of this By-Law that would not be sufficiently large to build a residence
thereon having the floor area required and having the spacing required by Sections 3 and
4 of this By-Law, a residence may be erected having the minimum floor area required
and a side yard on each side of the Dwelling House at least five (5) feet.
5. (a) In the event that two or more Dwelling Houses are to be erected on the same
parcel of land, the distance between such Dwelling Houses shall not be less
than twenty (20) feet.
(b) In all new sub-divisions or re-subdivisions of existing registered plans where no public
water or piped water supply approved by the Medical Officer of Health of the Municipality
or where no sanitary sewer is available, the minimum frontage of the parcel shall be
seventy-five <75) feet and the minimum depth shall be two hundred (200> feet provided,
however, that the frontage may be increased and the depth decreased providing that a
parcel shall have a minimum area of not less than fifteen thousand < 15,000) sq. ft. Only
one dwelling per parcel shall be permitted. Where the Municipality agrees to provide or
approves a system of piped water, the minimum area of the lot may be reduced to Seven
Thousand Five Hundred (7.500) square feet and the minimum frontage per lot may be
reduced to fifty (50) feet.
6. (a) No additions or extensions shall be made to the front or side of any Dwelling
House which shall reduce the front or side yards to less than the minimum required
by this By-Law except in the case of private garages as provided in Section 4,
subsection (b).
(b) This By-Law shall not apply to any land, building or structure which, on the day of the
passing of this By-Law is used or erected for any purpose prohibited by this By-Law so
long as it continues to be used for that purpose, nor shall this By-Law apply to any
building or structure the plans for which have prior to the day of the passing of this
By-Law been approved by the Municipal Architect or Building Inspector,
so long as the building or structure, when erected, is used for the purpose for
which it was erected.
7. Any person convicted of a breach of any of the provisions of this
By-Law shall forfeit and pay at the discretion of the Convicting Magistrate a
penalty not exceeding (exclusive of costs) the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00)
for each offence.
8. That Building By-Law No. 1653 and, or any other Building By-Laws contrary to,
or inconsistent with this By-Law are hereby repealed.
By-Law read a first and second time this Seventh day of June. 1949 By-Law read a
third time and Passed this Seventh day of June.1949
(Corporate Seal)
(Signed) W.H. WE3TNEY. Reeve
(Signed) L.T. JOHNSTON. Clerk"
"44 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1790
of the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering lo make application to the
Department of Lands and Forests (Fish and Wild Life Division) for an extension of the
Township of Pickering Regulated Crown Game Preserve Area for a further five-year term,
and to appoint Members of same.
WHEREAS the Township of Pickering Crown Game Preserve Area received the consent
of the Department of Lands and Forests for a renewal of its authority for the period of
1944 to 1949.
AND WHEREAS at a meeting of the Township of Pickering Regulated Crown Game
Preserve Area Committee held on March 22nd, 1949, a resolution was passed
requesting the Council of the Township of Pickering to petition the Department of
Lands and Forests (Fish and Wild Life Division) to renew the 1944-1949 agreement
so that the Township of Pickering Regulated Crown Game Preserve will continue as
heretofore;
AND WHEREAS the Township of Pickering Regulated Crown Game Preserve
Committee have recommended certain members to their Board;
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the MUNICIPAL COUNCIL of the TOWNSHIP
OF PICKERING:
1. That the Council of the Township of Pickering petition the Department of
Lands and Forests (Fish and Wild Life Division) to extend the present agreement
creating the Township of Pickering a Regulated Crown Game Preserve Area for the
five year period 1949 to 1954.
2. That the Township of Pickering Regulated Crown Game
Preserve Committee be comprised of the following
members:-
The five sitting members of the Municipal Council, and
Silas Tool, Lot 23. Concession 4.
Roy Morrish, Lot 31, Concession 3.
S. S. Pugh, Lot 26, Concession 4.
Lome Jones, Lot 3 Concession 7.
Lewis Jones, Lot 3. Concession 9.
Kenneth Reesor, Lot 27, Concession 9.
3. That said members shall serve on said Committee without remuneration.
4. That this By-Law shall become effective on the date final approval is received
from the Department of Lands and Forests (Fish and Wild Life Division).
By-Law read a first and second time this 2nd day of August, 1949.
By-Law read a third time and passed this 2nd day of August, 1949
W.H. WESTNEY, Reeve. L.T. JOHNSTON. Clerk."
="BY-LAWS 45
BY-LAW NUMBER 1821
A By-law to restrict the speed of vehicles on certain roads in the Township of Pickering.
WHEREAS Sub-section 2A of Section 23 of the Highway Traffic Act, as amended by
Sub-section 3 of Section 2 of the Highway Traffic Act, 1937, provides that:-
The Council of any Township may, by reason of density of population or number and
proximity of buildings therein or in any part thereof, by By-law approved by the
Department prohibit a motor vehicle from being operated at a greater rate of speed
than (30) THIRTY miles per hour in the Township or in such part or parts thereof or on
such highways or parts of highways therein as the bylaw may define.
AND WHEREAS there are 24 houses fronting on that portion of the sideline between
Township Lots No. 22 and 23 in Broken Front Range 3 between a point of 100 feet
north of the County Bridge and a point 2,112 feet northerly in FA1RPORT VILLAGE;
AND WHEREAS the said road is paved in the Village of Fair-port, which is a summer
resort and very heavily travelled during the summer months.
NOW THEREFORE, the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of
Pickering in the County of Ontario, enacts as follows :-
1. No vehicle may be driven upon the following designated portion of highway in the
Township of Pickering at a greater rate of speed than THIRTY (30) MILES
PER HOUR, that is to say:
The sideline between Township Lots 22 and 23 in Broken Front Range 3, between a
point ONE HUNDRED FEET NORTH of the COUNTY BRIDGE and a point 2,112 feet
northerly in FAIRPORT VILLAGE.
2. Every person who violates any of the provisions of this By-law shall incur the
penalties provided in Sub-Section 3 of Section 23 of the Highway Traffic Act (R.S.O..
Chapter 251, 1927.)
3. The provisions of this By-law shall not become effective until signs have been
erected in compliance with the regulations of the Department of Highways.
4. Subject to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, this By-law shall take
effect upon, from and after receiving the approval of the Department of Highways.
By-Law read a first and second time this 5th day of June. 1950
By-law read a third time and passed this 5th day of June. 1950
W.H. WSSTNEY. Re«ve. L.T. JOHNSTON. C'.e.k"
"46 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1823
of the Municipality of the Township of Pickering.
A BY-LAW to define a FIRE AREA in the Township of Pickering, and to defray the cost of
providing fire protection within such area by the Township of Pickering at the expense of
the owners and occupants of the land therein, by imposing upon such land according to
its assessed value a special rate.
WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to create a FIRE AREA within the Township of
Pickering:
THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering ENACTS
AS FOLLOWS:
1. The following lands within the Township of Pickering are defined as a FIRE
AREA, except that portion o£ Frenchman's Bay that lies in lot 24. Lots numbered
24 to 35 inclusive from Lake Ontario to halfway between Concessions 3 and 4.
2. A special rate shall be imposed upon all land, including buildings, in the area
according to its assessed value including business tax, to defray the expense of
providing fire protection within the area, commencing in the year 1951.
By-Law read a first time this 20th day of June, 1960
By-law read a second time this 20th day of June, 1950
By-law read a third time and passed this 20th day of June, 1950
W.H. WESTNEY, Reeve
L.T. JOHNSTON, Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 47
BY-LAW NUMBER 1829
of the Township of Pickering to license Pin-Ball Machines.
WHEREAS Council believes that certain games such as PIN-BALL should be permitted
in the Township providing that such games do not pay off in money, merchandise or
prizes.
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering
1. that portion of By-law No._1667 which relates to ""pin games,
pin-ball games,
ball games, or any other similar device, whether played or not"" be rescinded, but not to
include slot machines or any such games which pay off in money, merchandise or prizes.
2. that on the recommendation of the Police Chief, or his Deputy, a license will
be issued by the Treasurer to persons desiring to install pin-ball games.
3. that no License shall permit such games to be played between the hours of 12
o'clock midnight and 8:00 a.m., and that children under the age of sixteen (16) years
shall not be permitted to play such games, and there shall not be permitted undue
noise and rowdyism around such games.
4. that the license fee for such games shall be $50.00 (FIFTY DOLLARS) for the
first machine and $25.00 (TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS) for each additional machine
under the same lessee in the same building.
5. Any person upon conviction before a Magistrate or a Justice of the Peace,
shall be fined for the first offence the sum of $50.00 (FIFTY DOLLARS) and costs,
and for a second, or any subsequent offence, the sum of $100.00
(ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS) and costs, and the same
shall be recoverable under the Summary Convictions Act.
6. that the said License (as Schedule ""A"" attached hereto) shall be
exhibited in a prominent place on the premises where the licensed machine,
or machines, are located.
By-Law read a first and second time this 7th day of July, 1950.
By-Law read a third time and passed this 7th day of July. 1950
W.H. WESTNEY. Reeve L.T. JOHNSTON, Clerk"
"48 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1832
A By-law lo regulate garbage dumps and the depositing of garbage, refuse,
waste or any other material on private or public property in the Township of
Pickering and to prohibit the creating of nuisances within the Township.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:-
1. (a) The dumping and unloading or placing of any garbage, refuse, waste,
second-hand material, or combustible material in any place in the Township of
Pickering, without any authority in writ? ing from the Council is prohibited.
(b) The dumping or unloading or placing of any material which by reason of its creating a
nuisance either from smell or from burning thereof, causing smoke smell or any other
objectionable figure, is prohibited in the Township.
(c) This shall not prevent the owner of any land using his property for the purpose of
dumping, unloading or placing of any material which arises, develops or originates on
his own property, providing he complies with the other provisions of this By-law.
2. The Council may permit the dumping of ashes alone provided that such ashes are
kept in a proper manner by keeping level and free of any material that gives an untidy
appearance and that at least six inches (6"") of clean earth is put on top of not more than
every six feet (6') of ashes and that between the first of April and first of De cember of
each year, ashes and clean earth deposited on any land shall not exceed fifty per cent
(50%) of ashes.
3. No land shall be filled in such a manner as to block or interfere with the normal flow or
seepage of surface water, watercourse or storm waters.
4. It shall be the duty of all owners or occupants of the Township to keep any lands used,
owned or occupied by such a resident or owner, in a clean and sanitary condition and
no waste paper, garbage or any unsightly condition shall be allowed to remain.
5. In the event of any owner or occupant permitting any lands owned or occupied to
have an unsightly or unsanitary condition, the Chief of Police or Deputy shall have
the right to correct such condition and the owner or occupant responsible shall forthwith
u-pon demand pay the cost of correcting such condition, or upon failure to pay,
the cost may be collected by suit.
6. Any person convicted of a breach of any of the provisions of this By-law shall forfeit
and pay at the discretion of the convicting Magistrate a penalty not exceeding
(exclusive of costs) the sum of $50.00 (Fifty Dollars) for each offence.
Every such penalty shall be recoverable under ""The Summary Convictions Act,""
all the provisions of which shall apply hereto.
PASSED this First day of AUGUST. A.D. 1950
(Signed) W.H. WESTNEY, Reeve.
(Signed) L.T. JOHNSTON, Clerk
(SEAL)"
"BY-LAWS 49
BY-LAW NUMBER 1838
A By-Law to designate areas to be used as Tourist Camps ox Trailer Camps and to
license, regulate and govern such camps.
The Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. For the purpose of this By-Law:-
(a) ""Tourist Camp"" shall include and mean auto camp and any parcel of land or
premises equipped with cabins used or maintained for the accommodation of the public,
and any parcel of land or premises used or maintained as an overnight camping or
parking ground for the public whether or not a fee or charge is paid or made for the rental
thereof; and
(b) ""Trailer Camp"" shall include and mean land in or upon which any vehicle so
constructed that it is suitable for being attached to a motor vehicle for the purpose of
being drawn or propelled by the motor vehicle, is placed, located, kept or maintained,
notwithstanding that such vehicle is jacked up or that its running gear is removed,
but not including any vehicle unless it is used for the living, sleeping or eating
accommodation or persons therein.
2. The area described in Section 2 of Schedule ""A"" to this By-Law shall not be
used as Tourist Camps or Trailer Camps during the period from October First in any
year until May Thirty-First in the following year.
There shall not be more than ten (10) cabins, buildings or structures located upon each
of the area set out in Section 1 of Schedule ""A"" to this By-Law used for the living,
sleeping or eating accommodation of persons therein and if a trailer is used for sleeping
purposes such trailer shall be considered as a structure.
There shall not be more than ten (10) motor vehicles or vehicles placed, located,
kept or maintained for the living, sleeping or eating accommodation of persons therein
in each of the areas described in Section 2 of Schedule ""A"" to this By-Law.
The use of any other land in the Township of Pickering for such purposes or for any
purposes connected therewith is prohibited.
3. No person shall carry on, conduct, keep or maintain a Tourist Camp or a Trailer
Camp without first obtaining a license therefor, nor shall the owner of any land permit
the use of his land for such purposes unless and until a license has been obtained.
4. Any person desiring to obtain a license under this By-Law shall make application
to the Chief of Police, or person acting as Chief of Police, who shall consult the
Medical Officer of Health for"
"50 BY-LAWS
the Township, and if the Chief of Police or his Deputy is satisfied that the sanitary and
other arrangements art satisfactory, authority shall be given for the Treasurer to issue a
license. The Treasurer, upon payment of the fees as herein provided, shall issue a license.
5. A license shall be issued for the calendar year and shall not be issued to any person
under the age of twenty-one years. A license shall not be transferable.
6. The fees payable for a license required by this By-Law are set forth in Schedule ""B"".
The Treasurer shall not issue a license until such fee is paid.
7. There shall be provided for the use of the occupants of the Tourist and trailer camps,
during the period from June First to September Thirtieth, a wash-room, with a wash basin
and running water, and toilet for ladies and a similar one for men shall be located in
separate buildings built for that purpose. If the Tourist Camp operates between October
First in one year and May Thirty-First in the following year, there shall be provided in
each wash-room in addition to the foregoing equipment, a bath tub or shower with
adequate hot water during the said period
Provided however that if a plan for the use of existing building or buildings is submitted to
Council for approval, the Council may approve of such plan and permit existing building
or buildings to be used for sanitary purposes.
8.Any person, firm or corporation, who operates a Tourist or Trailer Camp shall keep a
register of all persons harboured, received or lodged in any cabin, building or structure
with their name, address and number of their motor car or trailer including a description
of accommodation provided.
9. (1) No person licensed under this By-Law shall permit his place or premises to be
used for any unlawful purpose nor shall he permit or suffer profane, obscene or abusive
language to be used by any person thereon nor permit disorderly conduct fas defined in
the Canada Criminal Code) thereon.
(2) The owner of any place herein mentioned shall not rent accommodation to anyone
under the age of eighteen years.
(3) No cabin, building, structure or location in the areas mentioned in Schedule
""A"" to this By-Law shall be rented or leased for a lesser period than twelve hours
and any cabin, building, structure or location so rented shall not toe rented or leased to
any other person or persons or permitted to be occupied during the balance of any
such period except by the original lesser thereof.
(4) The owner shall not rent or lease any cabin, building, structure or location to any
person, group of persons or any combination thereof for a period of more than fifteen
(15) days in any calendar year.
10. No person licensed under this by-law shall cause or permit or allow any nuisance
to arise in connection with his place or prem-"
"BY-LAWS 51
ises therein or therefrom or any shouting noise or disturbance of any person therein or
thereon and if such nuisance, shouting noise or disturbance is caused or arises,
the licensee shall at once abate the same or cause the same to be abated.
11. No person licensed under this By-Law shall cause or permit any obstruction by
vehicles or otherwise on any highway in front of or adjoining his place or premises or
any thronging or congregating of the public on such highway or employ or permit any
person, instrument or device to be or be used upon such highway or upon his premises
or place for the purpose of solicitating business or attracting attention to his Tourist Camp
or Trailer Camp and under no condition shall any means of broadcasting by radio,
victrola, phonograph, amplifier or other similar method or device be used
or permitted upon the premises or place to advertise the same or attract public
attention thereto.
12. Everj- place or premises licensed under this By-Law shall be kept clean,
safe and in good repair and condition by the licensee and the same shall be subject to
inspection at all times by any police officer and by the Medical Officer of Health or
Sanitary Inspector and any person who shall refuse admission to such police officer,
Medical Officer of Health or Sanitary Inspector, or fails to remedy any condition
complained of. shall be subject to the penalties of this By-Law.
13. Any person or Corporation convicted of a breach of any of the provisions of this
By-Law shall forfeit and pay at the discretion of the convicting Magistrate a penalty
not exceeding (exclusive of costs) the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for such offence.
Every such penalty shall be recoverable under ""The Summary Convictions Act""
all the provisions of which shall apply hereto.
14.Upon the cancellation of a license, it shall be the duty of the proprietor to remove any
building or structure used in connection with a Tourist Camp or Trailer Camp unless such
building or structure conforms to the Township requirements as to buildings and
structures. Upon the failure of the proprietor to remove the Council shall direct the
removal of all such buildings and structures, and the cost thereof shall be payable by the
proprietor forthwith upon demand.
15. All By-Laws contrary to or inconsistent with this By-Law are hereby repealed.
16. This By-Law shall become effective as from the first day of January 1951.
By-law read a first and second time this 1st day of December 1950
By-law read a third time and passed this 1st day of December 1950
W.H. Westney. Reeve L.T. Johnston, Clerk"
"52 BY-LAWS
SCHEDULE ""A""
(Attached to and forming part of By-law No. 1838)
1. The following named locations may be used as ""Tourist Camps"" only:—
(1) North-cast corner of Lot 21 in the Fifth Concession containing two acres,
owned by John Bress.
(2) Part of the north half of Lot 18 in the Fifth Concession, containing one and one-half
acres in the Village of Brougham, owned by Charles Burrows.
(3) Part of Lot 22 in the First Concession North of No. 2 Highway containing half an
acre owned by Walter Nicholson.
(4) Part of the north half of Lot 6 in the First Concession containing three acres known
as the ""Starboard Light.""
(5) Part of the north half of Lot 32 in Broken Front Range 3, north of No. 2 Highway,
containing one and one-quarter acres, owned by John Miller.
(6) Part of Lot 22 in the First Concession at Liverpool containing one acre assessed to
William Long.
2. The following named locations may be used as ""Trailer Camps' only:—
(1) South-east corner of Lot 9 in the Second Concession, con. taining two acres owned
by B. L. Chapman.
(2) Part of north-half of Lot 8 in the First Concession containing two acres,
owned by William T. Heron.
(3) Part of the south-half of Lot 6 in the Second Concession, containing two acres,
owned by Mary Powell.
SCHEDULE ""B"" (Attached to and forming part of By-law No. 1838)
LICENSE FEES PAYABLE
A fee of $10.00 (TEN DOLLARS) is payable each year for each building or structure,
located on the land in Section 1 of Schedule A to this By-law for the period June First
to September Thirtieth in each year and an additional fee of $15.00 (Fifteen Dollars)
for each cabin, building or structure, used between the First of October in one year
and the Thirty-first of May in the following year.
A fee of $10.00 (TEN DOLLARS; is payable each year for each location or space
provided for a vehicle or motor vehicle during the period May First to October
Thirty-first. A motor vehicle with a trailer attached shall be considered as one unit."
"BY-LAWS 53
BY-LAW NUMBER 1853
of the Municipal Corporation of the Township of Pickering, to divide the Township into two
Police areas.
WHEREAS in the year A.D. 1947. by a special Act of the Legislature, the Township of
Pickering was divided into two areas for Police purposes; the area south of the Third
Concession being classified as ""Urban"" — and therefore to be policed at cost to the
local government; and the area north of the said Third Concession line stated by the Act
to be ""Rural"" and to be policed by the Province at no cost to the Township;
AND WHEREAS the cost of maintaining said Township Police Force operating south
of the Third Concession has been charged to the general Township account and
collected on all the rateable property throughout the Township:
AND WHEREAS this Council are of the opinion that the cost of such Police services
should be a charge on the area served:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Corporation of the Township of Pickering that:—
1. The area north of Lake Ontario as far as the rear of Concession 2, from the boundary
line with the Township of Whitby on the cast, to the boundary line with the Township of
Scarborough on the west, save and except the Improvement District of Ajax, be and
it is hereby designated POLICE AREA NO. 1.
2. The area commencing at the south limit of road allowance of the Third Concession
Line northerly to the Township of Uxbridge. from the Township of Whitby on the east
boundary to the boundary line between the Township of Pickering and the
Township of Markham and Scarborough on the west, be and the same is hereby
designated as POLICE AREA NO. 2.
3. The net Police costs incurred in either area shall be a charge on the Area
where services are given and shall be shown as a special rate on the tax bills of owners
within the area commencing January 1st, 1951.
4. This By,-law be forwarded to the Ontario Municipal Board for their
approval.
BY-LAW read a First and Second time this 5th day of Feb. 1951.
BY-LAW read a Third time and Passed this 5th day of Feb. 1951.
W.H. WESTNEY. Reeve. L.T. JOHNSTON. Clerk."
"54 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1860
A by-law to regulate the operation of noisy machinery and to regulate and prohibit noises
calculated to disturb the inhabitants of the Township of Pickering.
The Council of the Corporation of the TOWNSHIP^OF PICKERING ENACTS as follows:—
1. No machinery used for the purpose of construction or excavation of buildings, shall be
operated during the hours from eight p.m. until of six a.m. of the day following.
2. No business or other undertaking which causes a noise that would disturb the peace,
quiet comfort or repose of any individual in any dwelling house, apartment house, hotel or
other place of residence, shall be operated from the hours of eight p.m. in the afternoon
and six-thirty a.m. of the day following.
3. No person shall within the Township of Pickering, ring, blow or sound or cause to be
rung, blown or sounded, any bell, horn or other signal device on any vehicle except
where required by law for a reasonable period of time.
4. No person shall cause or permit to be caused any shouting or unusual or unnecessary
noise which disturbs or is calculated to disturb the peace, quiet, comfort or repose of any
person in any type of residence, institution or place of business, within the Township
of Pickering.
5. The following noises or sounds, among others, shall be deemed to be unnecessary
noises which disturb the inhabitants:—
(a) The sound or noise from or created toy any radio or phonograph, or any musical
or sound producing instrument of whatsoever kind when such radio or phonograph
or instrument is played or operated in such manner or with such volume as to
annoy or disturb the peace, quiet, comfort or repose of any individual in any dwelling
house, apartment house, hotel or other type of residence.
(b) Any sound made by any domestic animal or bird that disturbs the peace, quiet,
comfort or repose of the inhabitants in the neighbourhood."
"BY-LAWS 55
6. The provisions of this By-law shall not apply to any case of public convenience or
necessity, to the ringing of church or school bells, to any parade or public gathering
operating for a limited period of time under permit of the Township of Pickering Council
or the Chief of Police, or to signals authorized or required by competent legislation.
7. Any person violating any of the provisions of this By-law shall be subject to a
penalty of not less than TEN DOLLARS ($10.00) for the first offence and to not more
than Twenty-five dollars (S25.00) for every subsequent offence, exclusive of costs,
and all such preliminaries shall be recoverable under the ""Ontario Summary
Convictions Act.""
BY-LAW No. 1318 and all other By-laws contrary to or inconsistent with this By-law are
hereby repealed.
BY-LAW read a first and second time this 2nd day of April. 1951
BY-LAW read a third time and passed this 2nd day of April, 1951.
W.H. WESTNEY. Reeve.
L.T. JOHNSTON. Clerk."
"56 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1901
A By-law to regulate the installation of culverts placed in Township of Pickering
ditches for private drives.
THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING ENACTS AS
FOLLOWS:
(1) No person shall install a culvert in a Township ditch for use as a private roadway
until approval of location and size is secured from the Road Superintendent or Engineer
of the Township
(2) All such culverts shall be of galvanized steel, or other material if approved by
the Road Superintendent or Engineer.
(3) Any person who contravenes the provision of this By-Law shall be subject to a
penalty of not less than $10.00 exclusive of costs, and all such penalties shall be
recoverable under ""The Ontario Summary Convictions Act.""
By-Law read a first time this 2nd day of April, 1952 By-Law read a second time this
2nd day of April, 1952
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
LLOYD T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 57
BY-LAW NUMBER 1904
A by-law designating through highways in the Township of Pickering.
Whereas subsection 3 of Section 39 of The Highway Traffic Act
(R.S.O. 1937, Chap. 288) provides that: —
The operator or driver of every vehicle or car of an electric railway shall before entering or
crossing a through highway bring the vehicle or car to a full stop immediately before
entering the nearest crosswalk; and
""Through Highway""' shall mean any highway or part of a highway designated as such
by the Minister or by By-Law of a Municipality approved by the Department,
and every such highway shall be marked to comply with the regulations of the
Department;
NOW THEREFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF
THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. The following highways and parts of highways in the Township of Pickering are
designated as ""through highways"": —
Name of Street From To
Altona Road No. 2 Highway North of the North side of Concession
Three.
Pickering Beach Road No. 2 Highway South to the South side of Range Line.
Liverpool Road North Side of Base Line Lake Ontario.
Pickering Station Road No. 2 Highway To South side of Base Line.
Greenwood Road North side of No. 2 Highway
Concession 3
Rougemount Road No. 2 Highway Pine Ridge Road and Pine Ridge Road
from Rougemount Road to North side of West Point Crescent.
Base Line Road Scarborough Town Line Rouge Hills Drive and Rouge
Hills Drive from Base Line Road to South side of West Point Crescent.
Second Concession Line East Side of Altona Road Brock Road.
Pairport Beach Road No. 2A Highway Lake Ontario."
"58 BY-LAWS
2. This by-law shall not become effective until approved by the Department of Highways
and until signs have been erected and are on display in compliance with the regulations
of the Department.
By-Law read a First time this Fifth day of May, 1952.
By-Law read a Second time this Fifth day of May, 1952.
By-Law read and PASSED this Fifth day of May, 1952.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 59
BY-LAW NUMBER 1909
A by-law for the regulation of traffic in Pickering Township.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
PART I—DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this by-law: —
(a) Commercial Motor Vehicle means a motor vehicle having permanently attached
thereto a truck or delivery body and includes an ambulance, hearse, casket wagon,
fire apparatus, police patrol, motor bus and tractor used for hauling purposes on the
highways
(b) Corner means the point of intersection of curbs or edges of the portion of the highway
used for vehicular traffic.
(c) Crosswalk means that portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the prolongation
or connection of the lateral lines of sidewalks or any portion of a roadway distinctly
indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings.
(d) Gross Weight means the combined weight of vehicle and load.
(e) Highway—See Street or Highway.
(f) Intersection means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the
lateral curb lines or, if none, then of the lateral boundary lines of two or more roadways
which join one another at an angle, whether or not one crosses the other.
(g) Park means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than
temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
(h) Pedestrian means a person afoot and invalids and children in wheeled carriages
(i) Police Officer means a member of the police force or a person authorized by the
Chief Constable to regulate or direct traffic.
(j ) Roadway means that portion of a street improved, designed, or ordinarily used for
vehicular traffic.
(k) Sidewalk means that portion of a street between the curb lines or the lateral lines
of a roadway and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians."
"60 BY-LAWS
(1) Stand means to remain stationary except when in obedience to any police officer,
signal, or sign and ""standing"" shall have a corresponding meaning
(m) Stop, when required, means a complete cessation of movement
(n) Stop or Stopping, when prohibited, means any stopping of a vehicle except when
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a
police officer or traffic control sign or signal.
(o) Street or Highway includes a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway,
driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle, designed and intended for, or used by,
the general public for the passage of vehicles.
(p) Traffic includes pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, street cars and other
conveyances either singly or together while using any street for purposes of travel.
(q) Traffic Control Device means any sign; or roadway, curb or sidewalk marking;
or other device erected or placed under the authority of the Council for the purpose of
guiding or directing traffic.
(r) Traffic Signal means any device manually, electrically or mechanically operated for
the regulation of traffic.
(s) Vehicle means every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may
be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices used exclusively upon
stationary rails or tracks.
PART II—OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
1. Police to Enforce By-Law
The police department shall enforce the provisions of this By-Law.
2. Obedience to Traffic Signs and Signals
Every person shall promptly obey all signals given either by a police officer or by a
traffic control device or a traffic signal.
PART III—PARKING
Method of Parking
1. Parallel
No person shall park a vehicle on any street other than a oneway street unless on the
right-hand side of the street, having regard for the direction in which the vehicle had
been proceeding and unless the right-front and right-rear wheels or runners of the
vehicle are parallel to and distant respectively not more than six inches from the edge
of the roadway, provided that this provision shall not apply where angle parking is
specifically authorized by by-law.
2. Angle
Where angle parking is permitted, no person shall park a vehicle except at an angle
of forty-five degrees with the edge"
"BY-LAWS 61
of the roadway and so that the front end of the vehicle is nearest to the edge of the
roadway.
3. Parking Prohibited
(1) In Specified Places
No person shall park a vehicle in any of the following places:—
On a sidewalk.
In front of a public or private driveway.
Within an intersection.
Within ten feet of a fire hydrant.
On a crosswalk.
Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection.
On a bridge, or in any subway, or the approaches thereto.
On any street in such a manner as to obstruct traffic.
In such a position as will prevent the convenient removal of any other vehicle previously
parked or standing.
In front of the entrance to a hotel.
In front of the entrance to an office building.
In front of the entrance to any place where goods or merchandise are regularly delivered
or removed.
In front of the entrance to a hospital.
In front of the entrance to a theatre, auditorium or other building while large assemblages
are being held in such theatre, auditorium or other building, or for a reasonable time
immediately preceding and following such assemblages. On any roadway for an
unreasonable time having regard for the traffic requirements of such roadway and in
no case for a longer period than three hours between 12 o'clock midnight and 7 o'clock
A.M.
(2) In Specified Places where Signs on Display
When properly worded signs have been erected and are on display, no person shall
park a vehicle in any of the following places: —
Within fifty feet of any intersection on any through highway or on any highway on which
street cars operate.
Within twenty-five feet of the lot on which a fire hall is located on that side of the street
on which such fire hall is located or within one hundred feet of such lot on the opposite
side of said street.
Within eighty feet of any point designated as a street car, bus or coach stop.
Between 8:30 A.M. and 4:30 P.M. upon that side of the street adjacent to any school
property.
(3) Bus and Taxicab Stands
(a) The driver of a bus or taxicab shall not stand or park upon any street in any business
district at any place other than at a bus stop, or taxicab stand respectively,"
"62 BY-LAWS
except that this provision shall not prevent the driver of any such vehicle from temporarily
stopping in accordance with other stopping or parking regulations at any place for the
purpose of and while actually engaged in loading passengers.
(b) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle other than a bus in a bus stop,
or other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand when any such stop or stand has been
officially designated and appropriately signed, except that the driver of a passenger
vehicle may temporarily stop therein for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any bus or
taxi-cab waiting to enter or about to enter such zone.
(4) Parking Restrictions on Specified Streets
When properly worded signs have been erected and are on display, no person shall park
a vehicle on any of the streets or parts of streets hereinafter set out in Column 1 on the
side or sides of the streets set out in Column 2 during the period set out in Column 3: —
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Street From To Side Period
Liverpool Rd. 20 rods North of Commercial St.to Lake Ontario West
Year round
PART IV—OPERATION OF VEHICLES
1. Turns
(a) Every person in charge of a vehicle before starting, stopping, turning or changing its
course shall take the necessary precautions to make such movement in safety and
without interfering with other traffic.
2. Obstructing Traffic
(a) A person operating a slow moving vehicle shall operate it as near the right-hand
edge of the roadway as circumstances and weather conditions permit.
3. Entering Highway
The driver of a vehicle emerging from a driveway, lane, lot or building shall stop the
vehicle immediately prior to driving onto the sidewalk and shall not enter the roadway
until he can do so in safety."
"BY-LAWS 63
4. Funeral and Other Processions
(a) No person shall intersect a funeral or other properly authorized procession while it is in
motion except under the direction of a police officer.
(b) The driver of a vehicle in a funeral or other procession shall drive as near to the
right-hand edge of the roadway as practicable and follow the vehicle ahead as close as is
practicable and safe.
PART V—PENALTIES
Any person violating any of the provisions of this by-law shall be subject to a penalty of
not more than Ten Dollars ($10.00) for the first offence and not more than Twenty-five Dollars
($25.00) for every subsequent offence, exclusive of costs, and all such penalties shall be
recoverable under the Ontario Summary Convictions Act.
PART VI
1. Ontario Highway Traffic Act to Govern
The provisions of this By-Law shall be subject to the provisions of The Highway Traffic Act
and amendments thereto.
2. By-Laws Repealed
All By-Laws contrary to or inconsistent with this By-Law are hereby repealed.
3. This By-Law shall not become effective until approved by the Department of Highways
and until the signs referred to herein have been erected and are on display.
Read a first time this 5th day of May, 1952.
Read a second time this 5th day of May, 1952.
Read a third time and PASSED this 5th day of May, 1952.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"64 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1911
A by-law to regulate the use of tents within the Municipality.
WHEREAS families have been living in tents within the Township for many months under
unsanitary conditions and established residence after a three-month period;
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering:
1. THAT no person or persons may occupy a tent within the Municipality of the Township
of Pickering for a greater period than fifteen days.
2. THAT owners may not permit any person or persons to erect a tent on their property
and permit any person or persons to occupy it for a greater period than fifteen days.
3. Any person contravening this By-Law shall be liable to a fine of $10.00 for the first
offence and $25.00 for subsequent offences, collectable under the Summary Convictions
Act.
By-Law read a First and Second time this 28th day of May, 1952.
By-Law read a Third time and PASSED this 28th day of May, 1952.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 65
BY-LAW NUMBER 1913
A by-law to limit the rate of speed which vehicles may travel in the hamlet of Whitevale.
WHEREAS by Petition over Seventy Percent of the Onwers in the Hamlet of Whitevale
have petitioned Council to pass a By-Law requesting that the speed of vehicles in this
hamlet be not greater than thirty miles per hour:
AND WHEREAS vehicles travelling at over 30 miles per hour are especially dangerous
in this Hamlet because it is situated on two very steep hills;
AND WHEREAS the area within the proposed restricted areas is built up on both sides
and conforms to the Department of Highways Act in this regard;
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering
that
1. No vehicle shall travel at a greater rate of speed than 30 miles per hour within the
Hamlet of Whitevale
(a) On the Fifth Concession of the Township of Pickering from the Westerly limit of
Lot 32, Concession 4, to 40 rods east of the Easterly limit of Lot 31 in Concession 4
of the said Township
(b) The sideline between Lots 30-31 from Concession 5 to 543 feet northerly.
2. The Petition of ratepayers attached shall form Schedule ""A"" of this By-Law
3. This By-Law shall become effective on the approval of the Department of Highways
and the erection of proper signs.
4. Any person who violates the provisions of this By-Law shall be subject to a fine of
$10.00 and costs by the convicting magistrate and such fine and costs shall be
recoverable under the Summary Convictions Act.
By-Law read a First and Second time this 2nd day of July, 1952. By-Law read a
Third time and PASSED this 2nd day of July, 1952.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"66 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1914
A by-law of the Municipality of the Township of Pickering to restrict certain lands for
industrial uses only.
WHEREAS certain lands in Lot 35, B.F. R. 3 and 2, are now under option for Industrial
use, and before said option is taken up, it will be required to be zoned for Industrial
use only;
AND WHEREAS the owner of the said lands have requested Council to zone his
said lands for Industrial use only;
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE TOWNSHIP
OF PICKERING:
1. That all lands in B.F. R. 3 and 2, Lot 35, owned by Levi Annis, more particularly
described as follows:
FIRSTLY
Commencing at a point 1183 feet north of the south-west angle of Lot 35, B.F. R. 2;
Thence southerly along the westerly limit of Lot 35 to the southwest angle;
Thence easterly along the southerly limit of Range, 1320 feet to the south-east angle of
Lot 35;
Thence northerly at a right angle, 1020 feet 11 inches along the easterly limit of said lot,
to a stake;
Thence north-westerly 1342 feet 2 inches to the point of commencement
Said land containing 31.71 acres more or less.
SECONDLY
Commencing at the north-west angle of lot;
Thence south 7 chains, 73 links;
Thence south 67 degrees, 50 minutes east along the north limit
of Carson's land, 5 chains, 30 links to a stake;
Thence south 17 degrees, 20 minutes east along the East limit
of Carson's land, 1 chain, 8 links to the north limit of Cherry
Street;
Thence easterly along the north limit of Cherry Street, 5
chains, 21 links, and 7/10 links;
Thence south 16 degrees east, 40 feet;
Thence easterly on the north limit Grand Trunk Railway 2
chains, 50 links;
Thence southerly thereon 1 chain, 94 links;
Thence easterly thereon 9 chains, 44 links to allowance for road
between Lots 34 and 35;"
"BY-LAWS 67
Thence north 16 degrees west 6 chains, 70 links to road allowance;
Thence south 74 degrees west 20 chains to place of beginning; Save and Except a
parcel commencing at the north-west angle of said Lot 35;
Thence easterly 222 feet along the northerly limit of said lot to a stake;
Thence southerly at a right angle and parallel to the westerly limit, 679 feet 4 inches to a
stake;
Thence north-westerly 285 feet 10 inches to a point on the westerly limit of said lot 498
feet 4 inches southerly from the said north-west angle.
Thence northerly along said westerly limit 498 feet 4 inches to the point of
commencement;
SAID LAND containing approximately 18 acres, be and they are hereby zoned for
Industrial use only.
2. That above-ground storage tanks be permitted on said lands providing they meet the
requirements of the Department of Transport
3. That this By-Law will become effective on approval of the Municipal Board
By-Law read a First and Second time this 28th day of May, 1952.
By-Law read a Third time and PASSED this 2nd day of July, 1952.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"68 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1917
A by-law of the Municipality of the Township of Pickering to restrict certain lands for
industrial uses, only.
WHEREAS our Planning Board have recommended the hereinafter-mentioned areas
of the Township to be zoned for industrial uses only;
AND WHEREAS owners of farms within the proposed zoned area have met among
themselves and with their local zoning committee, and as they claim there is little
objection to such zoning, the committee have requested the Council to pass the
necessary By-Law for such zoning:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OP THE TOWNSHIP
OF PICKERING THAT:
1. The area within the following described lines be zoned for industrial uses only:
Commencing at the south-east angle of Lot No. 15 in the Third Range of the Broken
Front;
Thence westerly to the south-east angle of Lot 17 in the Third Range of the Broken Front;
Thence southerly along the easterly limit of Lot 17 in the Second Range of the Broken
Front to Lake Ontario;
Thence westerly along the north shore line of Lake Ontario to the westerly limit of Lot 19
in Broken Front, Range 2;
Thence northerly in and along the westerly limit of Lot Number 19 in Broken Front Range 2
to the south-east angle of Lot Number 20 in Broken Front, Range 3;
Thence westerly along the southern limit of Lot 20 in Broken Front, Range 3 to the
south-west corner of said lot in Concession Broken Front, Range 3;
Thence northerly in and along Lot 20, Broken Front, Range 3. a distance of 699 feet, 9%
inches;
Thence westerly at a right angle to the westerly limit of Lot 21 in Broken Front, Range 3;
Thence northerly 1849 feet 7'4 inches in and along the westerly limit of Lot Number 21,
Broken Front, Range 3, to a point;
Thence westerly at a right angle to the westerly limit of Lot Number 22, Broken Front,
Range 3, and being the eastern boundary of what is called the Liverpool Road;
Thence northerly along the westerly limit of Lot No. 22 in Broken Front, Range 3,
and part of Concession 1, to the southern limit of the King's Highway Number 2;"
"BY-LAWS 69
Thence north-easterly along the southern limit of the King's Highway No. 2 in
Concession 1 to the westerly limit of Lot Number 17;
Thence southerly along the westerly limit of Lot Number 17 in Concession 1,
a distance of 959 feet 9 inches to a point;
Thence easterly at a right angle to the easterly limit of Lot Number 17 in Concession
1 to a point, being the westerly limit of what is known as the Station Road;
Thence southerly at a right angle in and along the easterly limit of Lot Number 17 in
Concession 1 to the southerly limit of the Canadian National Railway right-of-way;
Thence easterly in and along the southerly limit of the right-of-way of the Canadian
National Railways to the easterly limit of Lot Number 15 in the 1st Concession;
Thence southerly in and along the easterly limit of Lot Number 15 in the 1st Concession
and the Broken Front, Range 3, to the south-east corner of Lot Number 15 in Broken
Front, Range 3, being the point of Commencement.
2. This By-Law shall become effective on the date on which Council receive approval
for same from the Municipal Board.
By-Law read a First and Second time this 2nd day of September, 1952
By-Law read a Third time and PASSED this 2nd day of September, 1952
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk
"
"70 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1922
A by-law to provide for the payment of a bonus for the building of wire fences abutting
township roads in the Township of Pickering.
WHEREAS the drifting of the roads by snow during the winter season seriously impedes
public travel, and it being a source of considerable expense to the Municipality to keep
such roads open therefor;
AND WHEREAS it is deemed expedient that a bonus should be paid for the construction
and maintenance of wire fences on the lines bordering on the public highways of the
Municipality, in order that snow may be prevented from drifting thereon;
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the
Township of Pickering:
1. THAT the Council of this Municipality may. from the general funds of the Municipality,
pay bonuses of Seventy-Five Cents per rod for the construction and maintenance of
suitable woven wire or locked wire fences of substantial design and make,
to replace rail or other fences on which a bonus has never been paid, which fence
borders or abuts a Township road;
2. Every person to whom such bonus is paid, or to whom the same shall hereafter be
paid, shall enter into a covenant with the Corporation to maintain the wire fence bonused
on the line where constructed and placed, and not to change it for any other than a wire
fence having the approval of the Council of this Municipality; and every such person shall
also be required to covenant with the Corporation not to allow bushes, hedges or trees to
grow up alongside of or near any such fence, or to place any other obstruction alongside
of or near such fence, whereby the wind may be prevented or impeded in carrying the
snow through such wire fence and off the roadway.
3. No such bonus shall be paid or allowed until after the location and style and kind of
a fence proposed to be erected, has received the approval of the Council, nor until the
fence shall have been erected and completed, inspected and approved of by a
member of the Council, or by some official appointed for the purpose by the Council.
4. Owners may erect such ornamental fences abutting Township roads as Council
shall agree to by resolution.
5. If the owner of such road fence has removed a rail or other fence upon which a
bonus has never been paid, cleaned up all rubbish and agrees that he will keep such
fence bottom clear of rubbish, the Council may pay said Seventy-Five Cents per rod
bonus, even if no wire fence is constructed.
6. All By-Laws contrary to or inconsistent with any of the provisions of this By-Law be
and the same are hereby repealed.
By-Law read a First time this 24th day of October, 1952.
By-Law read a Second time this 24th day of October, 1952.
By-Law read a Third time and PASSED this 24th day of October, 1952
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 71
BY-LAW NUMBER 1923
A by-law to establish a community centre at Frenchman's Bay.
WHEREAS provision is made for the establishment of a Community Centre in Ontario
under the Community Centres Act. 1949:
AND WHEREAS it is desired to establish a COMMUNITY CENTRE at FRENCHMAN'S
BAY in the Township of Pickering, Ontario; THEREFORE THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
THAT a COMMUNITY CENTRE be established at FRENCHMAN'S BAY, Ontario,
Block A, Plan 324, under the Community Centres Act, 1949, and the regulations
thereunder, and that the said Community Centre be administered by the following
Board and their successors, duly appointed from time to time.
W. G. NEWMAN
C. A. BALSDON
representing the Council for the ensuing year, and: —
Name Organization Office Held
W. Fertile Frenchman's Bay Community Club President
John Buck "" "" "" "" Vice-President
James Torrence "" "" "" "" Secretary
Joseph White "" "" "" "" Representative
Harvey Fertile "" "" "" "" Representative
For the ensuing two years
The said Community Centre shall be maintained permanently as a Community Centre
by the said Board in conformity with the Act and regulations made thereunder.
PASSED at Brougham, this 3rd day of November, 1952.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"72 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1926
A by-law of the Municipality of the Township of Pickering io amend by-law No. 1914 to
prohibit certain trades and industries.
WHEREAS By-Law No. 1914 zoned parts of Lot 35 in Broken Front, Range 2 and 3 for
industrial use only and at the Municipal Board Hearing objections were raised to certain
types of industries locating in said area and the Municipal Board considered such
objections reasonable.
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE TOWNSHIP
OF PICKERING:
1. THAT the lands as set out in By-Law No. 1914 may be used for industrial
manufacturing and commercial purposes of all kinds which are not objectionable by
reason of emission of dust, smoke or fumes or by reason of danger, shall include the
following:
The manufacture or assembly of light electrical equipment and electrical appliances,
The manufacture or production of chemicals,
The manufacture of non-dangerous metal products,
A cartage or truck transport yard and garage,
A storage warehouse for raw materials, finished parts or products
And other similar uses which are not more objectionable or dangerous.
The following trades, industries or uses are prohibited:
(a) Blood boiling, bone boiling, refining coal oil, extracting oil from fish, storing hides,
soap boiling, tallow melting, tripe boiling, slaughtering animals, tanning hides or skins,
manufacturing glue, manufacturing of illuminating gas. distillation of coal, bones or wood,
fertilizers from dead animals, from human or animal waste, stone crushing or any other
trade, business or manufacture which is or may become a nuisance
The following purposes:
(bi Acetylene gas manufacture; ammonia, chlorine or bleach powder manufacture:
asphalt manufacture or asphalt refining, (provided that nothing in this By-Law shall
prevent the use of refined asphalt for or in connection with the preparation of road
building, flooring or surfac-"
"BY-LAWS 73
ing substances, compounds or material); blast furnace; boiler works; brick,
tile or terra cotta manufacture; (This provision shall not prevent the making of cement
or concrete blocks, pipes or tile) celluloid manufacture or treatment; creosote treatment
or manufacture; coke ovens; dyestuff manufacture; gunpowder manufacture or storage;
lamp black manufacture; lime, cement or plaster of paris manufacture; potash refining;
rolling mills smelting of iron; stockyards; storage or baling of scraps, paper, rags or junk;
tar distillation or manufacture tar roofing or tar waterproofing manufacture; wool pulling
and scouring; yeast plant;
No building other than a residence shall be erected on either the easterly or northerly
100 feet of the lands herein described.
By-Law read a First and Second time this 2nd day of December, 1952
By-Law read a Third time and PASSED this 2nd day of December, 1952
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"74 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1940
A by-law io amend and consolidate by-law number 1914 as hereby amended
and as amended by by-law 1926.
WHEREAS By-Law 1926 came before the Ontario Municipal Board on the 27th day of
January, 1953, and it appeared desirable and necessary to clarify the uses permitted;
AND WHEREAS for the purpose of convenience it is desirable that the restrictions
covering the lands mentioned in By-Law k826 should be consolidated
THEREFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF
PICKERING ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. The first paragraph of Section 1 of By-Law 1926 is amended by placing a period
after the word ""danger"" in the fourth line and deleting the balance of the paragraph.
2. That the following be enacted as the second paragraph of Section 1:
""Subject to the above conditions, the permitted uses shall include the following:""
That as amended by By-Law 1926 and hereby further amended By-Law 1914 shall read:
""By-Law Number 1914
A By-Law of the Municipality of the Township of Pickering to restrict certain lands for
industrial uses only.""
WHEREAS certain lands in Lot 35, B.F.R. 3 and 2, are now under option for Industrial
use, and before said option is taken up, it will be required to be zoned for Industrial use
only: AND WHEREAS the owner of the said lands has requested Council to zone its said
lands for Industrial use only;
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE TOWNSHIP
OF PICKERING:
1. That all lands in B.F.R. 3 and 2, Lot 35, owned by Levi Annis, more particularly
described as follows:
FIRSTLY
Commencing at a point 1183 feet north of the south-west
angle of Lot 35, B.F.R.2;
Thence southerly along the westerly limit of Lot 35 to the
south-west angle:
Thence easterly along the southerly limit of Range, 1320"
"BY-LAWS 75
feet to the south-east angle of Lot 35;
Thence northerly at a right angle 1020 feet 11 inches along
the easterly limit of said lot, to a stake;
Thence north-westerly 1342 feet 2 inches to the point of
commencement;
Said land containing 31.71 acres, more or less.
SECONDLY
Commencing at the north-west angle of lot;
Thence south 7 chains, 73 links;
Thence south 67 degrees, 50 minutes east along the north
limit of Carson's land, 5 chains, 30 links to a stake;
Thence south 17 degrees, 20 minutes east along the East limit of Carson's land. 1 chain.
8 links to the north limit of Cherry Street.
Thence easterly along the north limit of Cherry Street 5 chains, 21 links, and 7/10 links;
Thence south 16 degrees east 40 feet;
Thence easterly on the north limit Grand Trunk Railway 2 chains, 50 links;
Thence southerly thereon 1 chain, 94 links; Thence easterly thereon 9 chains, 44 links to
allowance for road between Lots 34 and 35;
Thence north 16 degrees west 6 chains, 70 links to road allowance;
Thence south 74 degrees west 20 chains to place of beginning.
Save and Except a parcel commencing at the north-west angle of said Lot 35;
Thence easterly 222 feet along the northerly limit of said lot to a stake;
Thence southerly at a right angle and parallel to the westerly limit, 679 feet 4 inches
to a stake; Thence north westerly 285 feet 10 inches to a point on the westerly limit of
said Lot 498 feet 4 inches southerly from the said north-west angle;
Thence northerly along said westerly limit 498 feet 4 inches to the point of
commencement;
SAID land containing approximately 18 acres, be and they are hereby zoned for Industrial
use as hereinafter provided
2. That the lands as set out in By-Law No. 1914 may be used for industrial manufacturing
and commercial purposes of all kinds which are not objectionable by reason of emission
of dust, smoke or fumes or by reason of danger. Subject to the above conditions,
the permitted uses shall include the following:
The manufacture or assembly of light electrical equipment and electrical appliances."
"76 BY-LAWS
The manufacture or production of chemicals,
The manufacture of non-dangerous metal products,
A cartage or truck transport yard and garage,
A storage warehouse for raw materials, finished parts or
products,
And other similar uses which are not more objectionable or
dangerous.
The following trades, industries or uses are prohibited:
(a) Blood boiling, bone boiling, refining coal oil, extracting oil from fish, storing hides,
soap boiling, tallow melting, tripe boiling, slaughtering animals, tanning hides or skins,
manufacturing glue, manufacturing of illuminating gas, distillation of coal, bones or
wood, fertilizers from dead animals, from human or animal waste, stone crushing or any
other trade, business or manufacture which is or may become a nuisance.
The following purposes:
(b) Acetylene gas manufacture; ammonia, chlorine or bleach powder
manufacture; asphalt manufacture or asphalt refining, (provided that nothing in this
By-Law shall prevent the use of refined asphalt for or in connection with the
preparation of road building, flooring or surfacing substances, compounds
or material); blast furnace; boiler works; brick, tile or terra cotta manufacture;
(This provision shall not prevent the making of cement or concrete blocks,
pipes or tile) celluloid manufacture or treatment: creosote treatment or manufacture:
coke ovens; dye-stuff manufacture; gunpowder manufacture or storage; lamp black
manufacture; lime, cement or plaster of paris manufacture; potash refining; rolling mills
smelting of iron; stockyards; storage or baling of scraps, paper, rags or junk; tar
distillation or manufacture, tar roofing or tar waterproofing manufacture: wool pulling and
scouring; yeast plant;
3. No building other than a residence shall be erected on either the easterly or northerly
100 feet of the lands herein described.
PASSED this 2nd day of February, 1953.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 77
BY-LAW NUMBER 1942
A by-law of the Municipality of the Township of Pickering respecting the treatment of
warble-fly within the municipality of the Township of Pickering in accordance with the
provisions of 'The Warble-Fly Control Act, 1952.""
WHEREAS a petition has been received which bears the signature of more than
two-thirds of the cattle owners in the Municipality: BE IT AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED
BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OP THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF ""THE WARBLE-FLY CONTROL ACT,
1952."" AND THE REGULATIONS THEREUNDER:—
1. All cattle within the Municipality of the Township of Pickering shall be treated for
warble-fly in accordance with the provisions of The Warble-Fly Control Act, 1952,
and the regulations thereunder
2. This By-Law shall come into force on the 2nd day of February, 1953
3. This By-Law shall remain in force until rescinded or amended by a subsequent
By-Law passed by the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering.
DATED at Brougham, Ontario, this 2nd day of February, 1953.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"78 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1958
A by-law to limit the rate of speed which vehicles may travel in the hamlet of Greenwood.
WHEREAS ratepayers of the Hamlet of Greenwood have requested Council to limit the
Speed of Vehicles on their main Street as the Hamlet is built on a very steep hill.
AND WHEREAS the lands on both sides of the Street which is proposed to be restricted
is sufficiently built up so that it conforms to the Department of Highway's Act which
permits Municipalities to restrict the speed of vehicles in such areas.
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering:
1. No vehicle may be driven at a greater rate of speed than 30 miles per hour in the
Hamlet of Greenwood, on the 6th Concession line from a point 300 feet east of the
sideline between lots 10 and 11 to a point 50 feet west of the new Greenwood road in
lot 12
2. Any person who violates the provisions of this By-Law shall be subject to a fine of
$10.00 and costs by the Convicting Magistrate and such fine and costs shall be
recoverable under the summary Convictions Act.
By-Law read a first and second time this 1st day of April, 1953.
By-Law read a third time and PASSED this 1st day of April, 1953.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 79
BY-LAW NUMBER 1959
A by-law of the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering to create a new school
section to be called ""School Section No. 1,"" of the Township of Pickering from School
Area No. 1.
WHEREAS on April 1, 1946, School Sections Number's 1, Union 1, and 4 East became
School Area No. 1, under By-Law No. 1686.
AND WHEREAS the resident owners of Pickering Beach and of Lots 5 and 6 in Broken
Front, Range 3 have petitioned Council that this area be withdrawn from School Area
No. 1.
AND WHEREAS there appears to be no objections from the remaining School Area
No. 1, that such area should be released. BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE
MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING THAT:
1. That Lots 5 and 6 in Broken Front, Ranges 2 and 3, of the Township of Pickering
be and they are hereby formed into an independent School Section.
2. That the said School Section shall be designated as School Section Number one.
3. That on and after December 25, 1953 the said School Section Number One shall
be a Corporate Body and shall cease to be a part of School Area No. 1
4. That the approval for the said School Section Number One must first be secured from
the Department of Education before this By-Law shall become effective.
By-Law read a first and second time this 13th day of May, 1953. By-Law read a third time
and PASSED this 1st day of June, 1953.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"80 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1960
A by-law of the Municipality of the Township of Pickering to establish a new school
section to replace the Township of Pickering lands which formerly comprised a part of
Scarboro School Area No. 2.
WHEREAS the owners in the Township of Pickering, which comprise a part of Scarboro
School Area No. 2 did petition Council to form a School Section of their own.
AND WHEREAS the Council's of the Townships of Pickering and Scarboro appointed
an arbitrator each, who, with the Public School Inspector's and the Judge of the County of
York presented their Award on March 10, 1953, which gave the sum of $8,067.57 to the
proposed new School Section as their assets in the Area No. 2.
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE TOWNSHIP
OF PICKERING:
1. That all the lands west of the Large Rouge River, north of Lake Ontario and east of
the Scarboro Town Line shall be, after January 1, 1954, a new School Section, and the
said School Section shall be numbered Number 18, of the Township of Pickering
2. That the ""Award of the Arbitrators"" which is attached hereto shall become a part
of this By-Law, and shall be called Schedule ""A"".
By-Law read a First and Second time this 1st day of June, 1953.
By-Law read a Third time and PASSED this 1st day of June, 1953.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
LLOYD T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 81
BY-LAW NUMBER 1967
A by-law of the Municipality of the Township of Pickering to alter certain boundaries of
polling subdivisions.
WHEREAS the Incorporation of Pickering Village has necessitated certain changes in
the Polling Subdivisions;
BY IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering:
1. That the boundaries of the various Polling Subdivisions shall be as follows:
(1) All the lots numbered 1 to 10 inclusive from the First Concession Line to the Fourth
Concession Line, save and except the Improvement District of Ajax, and including
Lots 11-12, in the First Concession from Highway No. 2A to the 2nd Concession Line,
and Lots 11-12-13-14, in the Second Concession, excluding the Village of Pickering.
(2) All the lots numbered 15 to 18 inclusive in Broken Front, Ranges 2 and 3,
all the lots numbered 13 to 20 inclusive in Concession One, excepting parts of Pickering
Village, all the lots numbered 15 to 20 inclusive in the Second Concession,
excepting parts of Pickering Village.
(3) All the lots numbered 21 to 24 inclusive from the First Concession Line to the
Third Concession Line and including Lots 25 and 26 in the Second Concession.
(3A) All the lots numbered 25 to 29 inclusive from Lake Ontario to the Second
Concession Line, save and except the two subdivisions known as Fairport Beach and
Port Dunbarton which comprise parts of the south halves of lots numbered 24, 25, 26
and 27
(4) All the lots numbered 30 to 35 inclusive which lie east of the Rouge River from
Lake Ontario to the Second Concession Line, save and except lots numbered 30 and 31
which lie north of No. 2 Highway to the Second Concession Line.
(4A) Lots numbered 30 and 31 which lie north of No. 2 Highway to the Second
Concession Line.
(5) All the lots numbered 27 to 35 inclusive from the Second Concession Line to the
Fourth Concession Line."
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(6) All the lots numbered 1 to 10 inclusive from the Fourth Concession Line to the
Seventh Concession Line.
(7) All the lots numbered 11 to 26 inclusive from the Fifth Concession Line to the
Seventh Concession Line and including lots numbered 27 and 28 in the Sixth Concession.
(8) All the lots numbered 25 to 35 inclusive in the Fourth Concession
All the lots numbered 27 to 35 inclusive in the Fifth
Concession
All the lots numbered 29 to 35 inclusive in the Sixth
Concession.
(9) All the lots numbered 1 to 14 inclusive from the Seventh Concession Line to
the Uxbridge Township Line.
(10) All the lots numbered 15 to 24 inclusive from the Seventh Concession Line to
the Uxbridge Township Line.
(11) All the lots numbered 25 to 35 inclusive from the Seventh Concession Line to
the Uxbridge Township Line.
(12) All the lots numbered 1 to 6 inclusive from Lake Ontario to the First Concession
Line, save and except the Crown property of Ajax.
(13) All the lots numbered 19 to 24 inclusive from Lake Ontario to the First
Concession Line, excepting that portion of the sandbar which lies west of Frenchman's
Bay Gap.
(14) All the plans in the south half of Lots numbered 24 to 27 inclusive which are in
the subdivisions of Fairport Beach and Port Dunbarton, namely:— Plans 345, 270. 311,
331 and 364.
(15) All the lots numbered 31 to 35 inclusive which lie south and west of the Rouge
River.
(16) All the lots numbered 11 to 24 inclusive from the Third Concession Line to the
Fifth Concession Line, including lots numbered 25 and 26 in the Third Concession.
2. That By-Law Number 1834 be, and the same is, hereby repealed
3. That this By-Law shall come into effect on the date of the final Passing thereof
By-Law read a First time this 27th day of July, 1953
By-Law read a Second Time this 27th day of July, 1953.
By-Law read a Third time and PASSED this 27th day of July, 1953.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 83
BY-LAW NUMBER 1971
of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering.
NOW, THEREFORE, be it enacted and it is hereby enacted as a By-Law of the
Corporation of the Township of Pickering by the Council thereof as follows:
1. No person shall within the Township of Pickering in a place to which the public
has access, bathe or expose himself in the nude
2. In this By-Law the word ""himself"" shall be interpreted to mean himself or herself
respectively as the gender of the person to be prosecuted may require.
3. Any person contravening this By-Law shall be liable, upon conviction, to a penalty
or fine not exceeding the sum of FIFTY DOLLARS ($50.00) exclusive of costs and such
penalty shall be recoverable under The Summary Convictions Act, R.S.O. 1950, chapter
379, and amendments thereto, all provisions of which shall apply except that the
imprisonment may be for a term of not more than twenty-one (21) days.
By-Law read a first time this 2nd day of November, 1953. By-Law read a second time
this 2nd day of November, 1953 By-Law read a third time and finally PASSED this 2nd
day of November, 1953.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"84 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1975
A by-law of the Municipal Corporation of the Township of Pickering to restrict the speed
of vehicles in Pickering Beach Subdivision and to prohibit parking in certain areas of
Pickering Beach Subdivision.
WHEREAS the subdivision of Pickering Beach is a built-up area, and may be
designated as such under the Highway Traffic Act: BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED
by the Municipal Corporation of the Township of Pickering:
1. That the Speed Limit on all Township roads in the subdivision of Pickering Beach,
Plan 250, 285, 372, 380 and 392, be limited to a maximum of thirty miles per hour.
2. Parking of all vehicles on road allowances between Lake Ontario and points
400 feet north, is prohibited between Township Lots 4-5 and 6-7
3. This By-Law will be effective when the proper signs are erected.
4. Any person who violates the provisions of this By-Law shall be subject to a fine of
$10.00, and costs, by the Convicting Magistrate, and such fine and costs shall be
recoverable under the Summary Convictions Act.
By-Law read a First and Second time this 2nd day of November. 1953
By-Law read a Third time and PASSED this 2nd day of November. 1953
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 85
BY-LAW NUMBER 1978
of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering.
A by-law to regulate the use of land and the use, bulk, height, construction and location of
buildings in that portion of the Township of Pickering west of the Rouge River.
The Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. Section 1—Title
This By-Law shall be known as the ""Restricted Area (Zoning) By-Law of that portion of
the Township of Pickering west of the Rouge River.'
2. Section 2—Interpretation
In interpreting and applying the provisions of this By-Law they shall be held to the
minimum requirements for the promotion of the public health, safety, comfort,
convenience and general welfare
3. Section 3—Continuation of Existing Regulations
All present By-Laws shall be deemed to be amended insofar as is necessary to give
effect to the provisions of this By-Law.
4. Section 4—Scope
No building, structure or land shall be used and no building or structure shall be hereafter
erected, structurally altered or enlarged within the territorial limits of that portion of the
Township of Pickering, west of the Rouge River, as now or hereafter legally constituted,
except in conformity with the provisions of this By-Law
5. Section 5—Definitions
For the purpose of this By-Law the definitions and interpretations
given in this Section shall govern:
Words used in the present tense include the future; words in the singular number include
the plural; words in the plural include the singular number; the word ""used"" includes
""arranged, designed or intended to be used""; the word ""shall"" is mandatory and not
directory.
5.1. Accessory Building: Shall mean a detached, subordinate building, not used for
human habitation, located on the same lot with the main building and shall include a
private garage.
5.2. Accessory Use: Shall mean a use customarily incidental ^nd subordinate to the
principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building."
"86 BY-LAWS
5.3. Alterations, Structural: Shall mean any change in the supporting members of a
building and ""structurally altered"" shall have a corresponding meaning.
5.4. Building: Shall mean a structure having a roof, supported by columns or walls and
used for the shelter or accommodation of persons, animals, goods or chattels.
Where a dwelling or a non-residential building is separated by a division wall without
openings, each portion of such dwelling or building shall be deemed a separate building
5.4.1. Basement—Partial: The space beneath the ground floor, completely surrounded
by poured concrete or concrete block walls, and having a clearance in height of at least
six (6) feet six (6) inches below the bottom of the ground floor joists, after providing for a
four (4) inch concrete floor and having a minimum area inside the walls of five hundred
(500) feet.
5.4.2. Basement—Full: The same as a partial basement, except the area shall be the
full area of the ground floor after making the necessary allowances for difference in the
thickness of the walls
5.5. Building Area: Shall mean the maximum projected horizontal area of the building
at grade measured to the centre of party walls and to the outside of other walls,
including roofed porches, verandahs, air wells and all other spaces within the building,
but excluding terraces, steps, cornices, fire-escapes, exterior stairways,
ramps and open loading platforms.
5.6. Court: Shall mean an open, uncovered and unoccupied space appurtenant to a
building and bounded on two or more sides thereby.
5.6.1. Court, Depth of: Shall mean the greatest mean horizontal dimension of such
court.
5.6.2. Court, Outer: Shall mean a court which extends to or opens upon a yard,
street or public lane.
5.6.3. Court, Width of: Shall mean the least horizontal dimensions between the
opposite sides measured at right angles to the longest sides of such court.
5.7. Coverage: Shall mean that percentage of the lot area covered by the
building area.
5.8. Dwelling: Shall mean a building or portion thereof designed exclusively
for single family residential occupancy.
5.9. Erect: Shall mean (with reference to a building or structure) build, construct or
reconstruct and shall include;
(1) The removal of a structure from one lot and relocating it it on another lot and
(2) Any physical operation, such as excavating, filling or draining, preparatory to
building, construction or reconstruction.
and ""erected"" shall have a corresponding meaning.
5.10. Existing: Shall mean existing as at the date of enactment of this By-Law.
5.11. Family: Shall mean one or two or more persons living as a single and non-profit
housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit and may include domestic servants."
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5.12. Pilling Station: Shall mean any building or premises used solely or principally for
the storing, dispensing, sale or offering for sale at retail of any automotive fuels and
lubricants and automobile accessories.
5.12A. Front: Front of a commercial or industrial building shall be a completed exterior of
brick, glass, wool, stone or other acceptable material, but shall exclude concrete block,
cinder block or similar. No loading platforms shall be permitted on a front of a commercial
or industrial building
5.13. Garage, Neighbourhood: Shall mean a building accessory to a group of dwellings
which is used exclusively by the residents of the dwellings for the sheltering of motor
vehicles
5.14. Garage, Private: Shall mean a detached accessory building or portion of a
dwelling which is used by the residents of the dwelling for the sheltering of motor vehicles.
5.15. Garage, Public: Shall include a parking station or a parking lot or a building or
place where motor vehicles are hired or kept or used for hire or where such vehicles or
gasoline or oils are stored or kept for sale, and a building or place used as a motor
vehicle repair shop or for washing or cleaning motor vehicles. For the purpose of this
By-Law, the word ""motor vehicle"" shall have the same extended meaning which the
word ""vehicle"" has in the Highway Traffic Act
5.16. Grade: Shall mean:
(1) for buildings having walls adjoining one street only, the elevation of the sidewalk at
the centre of the wall adjoining the street.
(2) for buildings having walls and adjoining more than one street, the average of the
elevation of the sidewalks at the centres of all walls adjoining the streets.
(3) for buildings having no wall adjoining the street, the average level of the finished
surface of the ground adjacent to the front exterior walls of the building.
Any wall approximately parallel to and not more than five (5) feet from a street line is to
be considered as adjoining the street. Where no sidewalk has been constructed,
the Township Engineer shall establish such sidewalk level or its equivalent for the
purpose of these regulations.
5.17. Ground Floor Area: Shall mean the maximum area measured to the
outside of all outside walls, excluding, in the case of a dwelling, any private garage,
porch, verandah or sun room unless such sun room is habitable at all seasons.
5.18. Height: Shall mean the perpendicular distance measured from the average
finished grade level to the highest point of the roof joists in the case of flat roofs or
to the point halfway up the roof in the case of pitched roofs. Where the height is
designated to terms of storeys, it shall mean the designated number of storeys
above and including the first storey."
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5.19. Institution: Shall mean a building used for a non-commercial purpose by an
organized body or society for promoting a particular object
5.20. Lane: Shall mean a public thoroughfare (having a maximum width of twenty
(20) feet which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting lots and is not
intended for general traffic circulation
5.21. Loading Space: Shall mean an off-street space or berth on the same lot with a
building or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a commercial
vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials and which abuts upon a
street, lane or other appropriate means of access.
5.22. Lot: Shall mean a parcel of land whether or not occupied by a building or structure.
5.22.1. Lot, Area: Shall mean the total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot.
5.22.2. Lot, Corner: Shall mean a lot, situated at the intersection of and abutting upon
two or more streets, each of which is at least forty (40) feet wide; provided that the angle
of intersection of such streets is not more than one hundred and thirty-five (135) degrees
5.22.3. Lot, Depth of: Shall mean the horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines.
5.22.4. Lot, Frontage: Shall mean the horizontal distance between the side lot lines
measured at right angles, but where such lot lines are not parallel, the lot frontage
shall be the distance between the side lot lines measured on a line twenty-five (25)
feet back from the front lot line.
5.22.5. Lot, Interior: Shall mean a lot other than a corner lot.
5.22.6. Lot, Key: Shall mean the first lot to the rear of a reversed corner lot and not
separated by a lane.
5.22.7. Lot, Reversed Corner: Shall mean a corner lot the side street line of which is
substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the lot to its rear.
5.23. Lot Line: Shall mean any boundary of a lot.
5.23.1. Front Lot Line: Shall mean the lot line that divides a lot from the street
provided that, in the case of a corner lot, the shorter lot line that abuts a street shall be
deemed to be the front lot line and the longer lot line that so abuts shall be termed the
flankage of the lot.
5.23.2. Rear Lot Line: Shall mean the lot line opposite the front lot line
5.23.3. Side Lot Line: Shall mean a lot line other than a front or rear lot line.
5.24. Motel, Motor Court, Auto Court: Shall mean a hotel in one building or in two or
more connected or detached buildings used twelve (12) months each year for the
purpose of catering to the needs of the travelling public by furnishing sleeping
accommodation with or without supplying food and shall include all"
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buildings operating under the Liquor License Act, 1946, the Act respecting Tourist
Establishments, 1949, and the Act respecting the Regulation of Tourist Camps, 1946.
There shall be maintained on the same lot as the said building or buildings at least one
automobile parking space for each individual guest room or suite provided.
5.25. Neighbourhood Store: Shall mean a store which serves the needs of the
adjacent neighbourhood and shall include the following types of stores:
General stores, Barber shops and Beauty salons, Drug stores, Dry goods,
Tobacco stores, Stationery stores, Restaurants and Tea rooms
5.26. Parking Area, Public: Shall mean an open area, other than a street,
used for the temporary parking of more than four (4) motor vehicles and available
for public use, whether free, for compensation, or as an accommodation for clients
or customers.
5.27. School: Shall mean an educational establishment.
5.27.1. Public School: Shall mean an authorized school under the jurisdiction of a
Public School Board, a High School Board or a Board of Education
5.27.2. Separate School: Shall mean an authorized school under the jurisdiction
of a Separate School Board.
5.27.3. Private School: Shall mean a school other than a public or separate school.
5.27.4. Nursery School: Shall mean a school operated for preschool age children
5.27.5. Similar Design (Dwellings) : Shall mean the exterior of the front elevation of
two or more dwellings constructed to the same or approximately the same
measurements and specifications having conformity in materials and general
appearance in more than 75% of the exterior surface of said front elevation.
5.28. Storey : Shall mean the portion other than a cellar, basement or attic included
between any floor level and the floor, ceiling or roof next above it.
5.28.1. Storey, Half: Shall mean the portion of a building situated wholly,
or in part within the roof and in which there is sufficient space to provide a height
between finished floor and finished ceiling of at least seven (7) feet six (6) inches over
a floor area equal to at least 331/3. per cent of the area of the floor next below.
5.29. Street: Shall mean a public highway or private thoroughfare having a minimum
width of sixty-six (66) feet which affords a principal means of access to abutting lots.
5.30. Street Line: Shall mean the dividing line between a lot and a street
5.31. Structures: Shall mean anything constructed or erected, the use of which
requires location on the ground, or attached to something having location on the ground."
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5.32. Yard: Shall mean an open, uncovered, unoccupied space appurtenant to a
building (except a court).
5.32.1. Yard, Front: Shall mean a yard extending across the full width of the lot
between the front lot line and the nearest main wall of the main building on the lot.
5.32.2. Yard, Rear: Shall mean a yard extending across the full width of the lot
between the rear lot line and the nearest main wall of the main building on the lot.
5.32.3. Yard, Side: Shall mean a yard extending from the front yard to the rear
yard between the side lot line of the lot and the nearest main wall of the main building,
exclusive of any chimney breast
6. Section 6
6.1. Residential Zones: General Provisions applicable to all Residential Zones
6.1.1. Minimum Lot Frontage
6.1.1.1. Not more than one one-family detached dwelling may be built upon any lot
which is part of a subdivision plan registered prior to the passing of this By-Law
6.1.1.2. No one-family detached dwelling hereafter built upon vacant land NOT
SUBDIVIDED by registered plan prior to the passing of this By-Law shall be built upon a
lot having a frontage of less than sixty (60) feet.
6.1.2. Front Yards
6.1.2.1. A front yard shall be provided in the front of the main building. Subject to
Sub-Sections 6.1.2.2; 6.1.2.3. and 6.1.2.4, the minimum distance of a building from
the front lot line shall be thirty (30) feet
6.1.2.2. The minimum distance from the front line of a building on a key lot shall be the
average of the required corresponding distance for the adjoining interior lot and the
required distance from the side lot line on the street side, of the building on the adjoining
corner lot. Where existing buildings on either or both of said adjoining lots are located
nearer to the front or side lines than the distances required above,
the distances established by such existing buildings shall be used in computing the
front yard for a key lot.
6.1.2.3. Notwithstanding the provisions of Sub-Section 6.1.2.1., the distance from
the front lot line of any building erected between lots with existing buildings on the
same street frontage of the same block shall conform to the corresponding regulations
of the existing buildings. But this clause shall not require the building to be set back
more than fifty (50) feet.
6.1.2.4. No front yard required to be provided under this By-Law shall be obstructed,
but this provision shall not apply to prevent the construction or location of an uncovered
terrace. Open and roofed porchways or verandahs shall not extend closer than
twenty-five (25) feet from the front lot line. A hedge and/or ornamental fence,
for the purpose of this sub-section, shall not be considered an obstruction."
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6.1.3. Side Yards
6.1.3.1. A side yard shall be provided on each side of the main building.
Subject to sub-section 6.1.3.2; 6.1.3.3. and 6.1.3.4 of this sub-section,
and the Section 6.1.6 (Type of Building), the minimum distance of said main building
from each side lot line shall not be less than four (4) feet on the one side and ten (10)
feet on the other side, and these minimum distances on either side of the main house
may not be used for an accessory building. If a garage is attached to the main dwelling
or to an adjoining breeze-way, the minimum side yard may be four (4) feet on both sides.
6.1.3.2. In the case of a building on a corner lot, the minimum distance from the side lot
line on the street side shall be ten (10) feet
6.1.3.3. No windows, located on the first storey of any building and admitting light to
any habitable room shall be constructed in any side wall, unless there is an open space
having a minimum width of four (4) feet between such wall and the side lot line.
6.1.3.4. No chimney breast, steps or other projections from the side wall of a building,
shall be less than two (2) feet six (6) inches from the side lot line of the lot on which the
building is located
6.1.4. Rear Yards: A rear yard shall be provided in the rear of the main building.
The minimum distance of the building from the rear lot line shall equal 25 per cent of the
depth of the lot but need not exceed twenty-five (25) feet.
6.1.5. Accessory Buildings
6.1.5.1. The distance of any accessory building from any rear or side lot line shall be
a minimum of eighteen (18) inches clear of all projections save and except where a
mutual garage is erected on the common property line between two properties.
6.1.5.2. Where no lane exists at the rear of the lot on which an accessory building is
located, the minimum distance of such building from the rear lot line shall be eighteen
(18) inches. Where entrance to the private garage is from a lane, such building shall
be a minimum of eighteen (18) inches from the lot line but shall be no closer than
twenty-five (25) feet from the opposite boundary of the lane.
6.1.5.3. The maximum height of any accessory building shall be twelve (12) feet.
6.1.5.4. The coverage of any accessory building, exclusive of garages,
shall not exceed 2 per cent of the lot area.
6.1.5.5. Where an accessory building is constructed with a Pitched roof,
it must be properly shingled.
6.1.5.6. The finish of all accessory buildings shall be in conformity with the
residence on the property.
6.1.5.7. On all new houses erected on corner lots, any garage must be attached to
the house or at least ten (10) feet clear from the rear lot line."
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6.1.6. Type of Building
6.1.6.1. Subject to sub-section 6.1.6.2 of this sub-section the first storey of all buildings,
shall be of ""ordinary"" ""construction"" as denned herewith, ""a type of construction
having wood joists or wood, steel or iron columns or beams (which columns or beams
may or may not be protected with fire resisting coverings) but having the exterior walls
constructed with brick, stone or other incombustible material"". No concrete or cinder,
or other building blocks shall be visible.
6.1.6.2. A building which, together with its accessory buildings, is a minimum distance
of ten (10) feet from each side lot line may be of frame construction subject to the written
approval of the Inspector of Buildings.
6.1.7. Toilet Facilities: All buildings shall have the necessary toilet facilities fully installed
inside the building, connected to septic tanks or municipal sewage system.
A satisfactory drainage tile field to conform to township By-Laws shall be connected
with each septic tank.
6.1.8. Privies: Outside privies shall be prohibited.
6.1.9. Living in Garages, Etc.: Living in a garage or in the basement of a house that is
not completed shall be prohibited.
6.1.10. Similarity of Design
6.1.10.1. Residences of similar design shall not hereafter be built in groups of more
than three together, and shall be separated from any other similar group by space
sufficient for two residences. For the purpose of this sub-section, residences built on
adjacent lots shall be construed as being built together.
6.1.10.2. External Design: No buildings or structures may hereafter be erected
until the external design of such buildings or structures are approved by the Township
Inspection Department of Buildings
6.1.11. Non-Residential Buildings: Any building erected, structurally altered or
used for non-residential purposes in a residential zone shall comply with the
regulations provided in this Section and with the regulations in the zone in which said
building is located
6.1.12. Live Stock: The keeping of any live stock or fowl shall be prohibited on
parcels of land of less than five (5) acres. This shall not prohibit the keeping of dogs,
cats, canaries or similar caged birds, etc., as domestic pets.
6.2. Residential Zone ""R.I"": The following regulations shall apply in the Residential
Zone ""R.I"", as described in Schedule ""A"" to this By-Law.
6.2.1. Use: No building, structure or land shall be used and no building or structure
shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered, or enlarged, except for the following
uses:
6.2.1.1. Residential—one-family detached dwellings."
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6.2.1.2. Business—the offices of physicians or dentists located in the one-family
detached dwellings used by physicians or dentists as their private residences,
such offices to be used for consultation and emergency treatment only, but shall not be
in the nature of clinics or private hospitals.
6.2.1.3. Recreational—the following types of uses: parks, playgrounds operated by
the Township; Community Centre; golf courses; but not driving tees or ranges and
similar uses operated for commercial purposes.
6.2.1.4. Institutional—Churches, Sunday Schools, Libraries and Schools.
6.2.1.5. Public—Municipal, Provincial or Federal Government Buildings, Fire Halls
6.2.1.6. Accessory Uses—of subdivided property; private garages, pump houses,
green houses. On parcels of five (5) acres or more, farm buildings shall be allowed.
6.2.1.7. Signs—one non-illuminated real estate sign not exceeding four (4)
square feet in area, advertising the sale, rental or lease of any building, structure or lot;
one non-illuminated trespassing, safety or caution sign not exceeding one (1)
square foot in area; sign, not exceeding one (1) square foot in area indicating the name
and of the occupant or house; or one sign indicating the name and profession of a doctor
or dentist, shall be permitted. All other signs shall be prohibited.
6.2.2. Area: No building or structure shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered,
or enlarged, except in accordance with the regulations provided in Section 6.1.
(General Provisions) and the following regulations;
6.2.2.1. Lot Frontage: No One-family detached dwelling shall be hereafter built upon
vacant land NOT SUBDIVIDED by registered plan prior to the passing of this By-Law
except in accordance with the following regulations for minimum lot frontage:
6.2.2.1.1. Minimum, where piped water only exists or will be made available by the
Township within one (1) year . . . sixty (60) feet
6.2.2.1.2. Minimum, where piped water does not exist or will not be made available
by the Township within one (1) year . . . Seventy-five (75) feet.
6.2.2.2. Lot Area: No one-family detached dwelling shall be hereafter built upon
vacant land NOT SUBDIVIDED by registered plan prior to the passing of this By-Law
except in accordance with the following regulations for minimum lot area:
6.2.2.2.1. Minimum, where piped water only exists or will be made available by the
Township within one (1) year . . . Seven Thousand Five Hundred (7,500) square feet.
6.2.2.2.2. Minimum, where piped water does not exist or will not be made available
by the Township within one (1) year . . . Fifteen Thousand (15,000) square feet."
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6.2.2.3. Lot Coverage: Maximum, main building, except where municipal sewerage is
provided . . . 33%.
6.2.2.4. Ground Floor Area:
6.2.2.4.1. Minimum, one-storey dwellings . . . Nine Hundred and Sixty (960) square
feet.
6.2.2.4.2. Minimum, one and half storey dwellings . . . Seven Hundred (700) square
feet
6.2.2.4.3. Minimum, two storey dwellings . . . Six Hundred and Fifty (650) square feet
6.2.2.4.4. Where partial or full basement is not provided, additional ground floor area
shall be added to the extent of One Hundred and Twenty (120) square feet.
6.2.3. Height: Subject to Section 9.3.2 (Height Exceptions) no building or structure shall
be hereafter erected, structurally altered, enlarged or maintained, to exceed Thirty-five
(35) feet in height.
6.3. Residential Zone ""R.2"": The following regulations shall apply in the Residential
Zone ""R.2"", as described in Schedule ""B"" to this By-Law
6.3.1. Use: No building, structure or land shall be used and no building or structure
shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered, or enlarged, except for the following
uses:
6.3.1.1. Residential—one family detached dwelling.
6.3.1.2. Business—the offices of physicians or dentists located in the one-family
detached dwellings used by physicians or dentists as their private residences,
such offices to be used for consultation and emergency treatment only, but shall not
be in the nature of clinics or private hospitals.
6.3.1.3. Recreational—the following types of uses: Parks; playgrounds operated
by the Township; community centre; golf courses; but not driving tees or ranges
and similar uses operated for commercial purposes
6.3.1.4. Institutional—Churches, Sunday Schools; Libraries and schools
6.3.1.5. Public—Municipal, Provincial or Federal Government buildings; Fire Halls.
6.3.1.6. Accessory Uses of Subdivided Property—private garages; pump houses;
green houses. On property or parcels of land of five (5) acres or more, farm buildings
shall be allowed.
6.3.1.7. Signs—one non-illuminated real estate sign not exceeding four (4)
square feet in area, advertising the sale, lease or rental of any building,
structure or lot; one non-illuminated trespassing, safety or caution sign not
exceeding one (1) square foot in area; one sign indicating the name and profession
of a doctor or dentist shall be permitted. All other signs shall be prohibited
6.3.2. Area: No building or structure shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered,
or enlarged, except in accordance with the regulations provided in Section 6.1.
(General Provisions) and the following regulations:"
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6.3.2.1. Lot Frontage: No one-family detached dwelling shall be hereafter built upon
vacant land NOT SUBDIVIDED by registered plan prior to the passing of this By-Law
except in accordance with the following regulations for minimum lot frontage:
6.3.2.1.1. Minimum, where piped water only exists or will be made available by the
Township within one (1) year . . . Fifty (50) feet
6.3.2.1.2. Minimum, where piped water and sanitary sewers do not exist or will not be
available by the Township within one (1) year . . . Fifty (50) feet
6.3.2.2. Lot Area: No one-family detached dwelling shall be hereafter built upon
vacant land NOT SUBDIVIDED by registered plan prior to the passing of this By-Law
except in accordance with the following regulations for minimum lot area;
6.3.2.2.1. Minimum, where piped water only exists or will be made available by the
Township within one (1) year . . . Seven Thousand Five Hundred (7,500) square feet.
6.3.2.2.2. Minimum, where piped water and sanitary sewers do not exist or will not
be made available by the Township within one (1) year . . . Seven Thousand Five
Hundred (7,500) square feet.
6.3.2.3. Lot Coverage: Maximum, main building, except where municipal sewerage
is provided . . . 33%.
6.3.2.4. Ground Floor Area:
6.3.2.4.1. Minimum, one storey dwellings . . . Eight Hundred and Fifty (850)
square feet.
6.3.2.4.2. Minimum, one and half storey dwellings . . . Six Hundred and Fifty
(650) square feet.
6.3.2.4.3. Minimum, two storey dwellings . . . Six Hundred (600) square feet
6.3.2.4.4. Where partial or full basement is not provided, additional ground floor
area shall be added to the extent of One Hundred and Twenty (120) square feet.
6.3.3. Height: Subject to Section 9.3.2. (Height Exceptions), no building or structure
shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered, enlarged or maintained, to exceed
Thirty-five (35) feet in height
6.3.3.1. Institutional: Schools, Churches, Church Halls, Sunday Schools, Libraries
7. Section 7
7.1. Commercial Zones: General Provisions applicable to all Commercial Zones as
described in Schedule ""C"" to this By-Law.
7.1.1. Non-Residential Buildings
7.1.1.1. Front Yards: Subject to 7.1.4, a front yard of Sixty (60) feet in depth shall be
required for any building erected in a commercial zone. Such front yard must be hard
surfaced or gravelled to provide parking and turning space for automobiles of
customers of the commercial buildings. Where adjacent buildings, or build-tag within
One Hundred (100) feet on either side, have this Sixty (60) foot front yard, then Section
7.1.4 shall not apply."
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7.1.1.2. Side Yards: No side yard shall be required for any building erected,
structurally altered or used for non-residential purposes in a commercial zone.
7.1.1.3. Rear Yards: Subject to Section 7.1.3 (Loading Space) and 7.2.3
(Toilet Facilities and Drainage Tile Field) in a commercial zone a rear yard shall be
required for any building erected, structurally altered or used for non-residential purposes.
7.1.2. Residential Buildings: Any building erected, structurally altered or used for
residential purposes in a commercial zone shall comply with the regulations provided in
Section 6.1 to Sections 6.2.3 inclusive; but Clause 6.1.6.2 shall not apply.
7.1.3. Loading Space: Every commercial, institutional or public building hereafter
erected or established on a lot which abuts upon a lane or is surrounded on all sides by
streets, shall have one permanently maintained loading space of a minimum size of
Twenty (20) feet in width, Ten (10) feet in depth and Fourteen (14) feet in height,
to be located in the rear of such building. Where two properties adjoin, provision may
be made for a common loading space of a minimum size of Thirty (30) feet in width,
Ten (10) feet in depth and Fourteen (14) feet in height, half of such area to be reserved
in each of the two properties concerned.
7.1.4. Automobile Parking Space: As an alternative to Section 7.1.1., there shall be
provided for every new building erected, after the date of enactment of this By-Law,
for one of the following purposes, permanent automobile parking spaces to be located
on the same lot with the said building or not more than One Thousand (1,000)
feet therefrom, with adequate provision for access to a street or lane, each parking
space to be not less than Two Hundred (200) square feet in area. Such parking spaces
shall be provided sufficient for the employers' and customers' cars with the minimum as
follows:
7.1.4.1. Commercial Buildings—a total parking area equal to one-half of the floor
space of the building.
7.1.4.2. Theatres—at least one parking space for every ten (101 seats provided in
the said building.
7.1.4.3. No parking space shall be required for churches or church halls having a
maximum seating capacity of Two Hundred (200) persons. If more than Two Hundred
(200) seats are provided in such buildings, one parking space shall be required for
each Twenty (20) seats in excess thereof.
7.1.4.4. No accessory building shall be permitted to encroach upon the parking area
provided under Sub-Sections 1.2 and 3.
7.1.5. Combination Commercial and Residential Establishments: In a
Commercial Zone any building erected, structurally altered, enlarged or maintained
for mixed residential and commercial uses shall comply with the following regulations,
and shall be permitted only where piped water is available.
7.1.5.1. Lot Coverage: Every building shall provide and preserve an area of at least
50 per cent of the lot area free of all construction."
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7.1.5.2. Dwelling Unit Area: Each dwelling unit provided therein shall provide a minimum
floor area of Six Hundred (600) square feet
7.1.6. Accessory Buildings
7.1.6.1. No accessory building shall be erected on a corner lot.
7.1.6.2. All accessory buildings shall be of masonry construction
7.1.6.3. All private and neighbourhood garages shall not exceed a maximum height
of Fifteen (15) feet.
7.1.7. Use: No building, structure or land shall be used and no building or structure
shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered or enlarged except for the following uses:
7.1.7.1. Residential: One-family detached dwellings, subject to Section 7.1.2
7.1.7.2. Business: The following types of uses—All commercial establishments which
are not objectionable by reason of dust, smoke, fumes, noise or by reason of danger and
shall include the following: Neighbourhood stores (See Section 5.25); Bakery
Shops; Banks; Clothes Cleaning Agencies or Pressing Establishments; Confectionery
Stores: Custom Dressmaking and Millinery Shops; Florist and Gift Shops; Jewellery
Stores; Laundry Agencies; Offices, Business and Professional; Photographers;
Shoe Stores and Shoe Repair Shops; Tailor, Clothing and Wearing Apparel Shops;
Theatres; Undertaking Establishments; Morgues; Filling Stations and Public Garages;
Public Parking Areas; Eating Establishments.
7.1.7.3. Recreational: The following types of uses—Parks; Playgrounds
perated by the Township; Badminton Clubs; Lawn Bowling Clubs; Tennis Clubs;
Athletic Clubs; Community Centres.
7.1.7.4. Institutional: Schools, Churches, Church Halls, Sunday Schools, Libraries,
Museums, Art Galleries, Fraternal Societies
7.1.7.5. Public: Municipal, Provincial or Federal Government Buildings; Fire Halls;
Police Stations; Monuments; Rest Rooms.
7.1.7.6. Accessory Uses: Private garages; neighbourhood garages
7.1.7.7. All commercial establishments south of Number Four Hundred and One
Highway shall remain closed between the hours of midnight and 6 o'clock in the
morning.
7.2. Commercial Zones—Buildings
7.2.1. Area: No building or structure shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered,
enlarged or maintained, except in accordance with the regulations provided in
Section 7.1 (General Provisions).
7.2.2. Height: Subject to Section 9.3.2 (Height Exceptions), no building or
structure shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered, enlarged or maintained to
exceed Forty-Five (45) feet in height.
7.2.3. Toilet Facilities: All buildings shall have the necessary toilet facilities fully
installed inside the building, connected with septic tank or municipal sewage service.
A satisfactory drainage tile field shall be connected with each septic tank."
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7.2.4. Outside privies shall be prohibited.
7.2.5. Construction: All buildings shall have all exterior walls of brick, metal or better,
with no visible concrete blocks, cinder blocks or similar material. Provided that exposed
concrete blocks or similar material shall be permitted on the side of a commercial
building where it is contemplated that a building will be constructed adjacent thereto,
but in such cases the exposed blocks shall be water-proofed and painted or similarly
treated. Provided also that exposed concrete blocks or similar material shall be
permitted on the rear wall of a commercial building, but in such cases the exposed
blocks shall be water-proofed and painted or similarly treated.
8. Section 8
8.1. Industrial Zone: General Provisions applicable to all Industrial Zones
8.1.1. Front Yards
8.1.1.1. A front yard shall be required for any building erected, structurally altered or
used for industrial purposes in an industrial zone
8.1.1.2. All buildings fronting on the Pickering-Scarborough Town Line, on East Avenue,
or adjacent to a residential area shall have a front yard of a minimum depth of One
Hundred (100) feet
8.1.1.3. For the interpretation of Sections 8.1.1.2 and 8.1.3, all property on a road or
lane shall be considered adjacent to the property across such road or lane.
8.1.1.4. A front yard, under this section, shall be maintained in good appearance,
and may be hard-surfaced, and if hard surfaced may be used for a parking lot for
employees and customers.
8.1.2. Rear Yards and Side Yards: Rear and side yards of a minimum of Ten (10)
feet shall be required for any building erected, structurally altered or used for industrial
purposes in an industrial zone
8.1.3. Direction of Front: All buildings on property on East Avenue, or adjacent to a
residential area, or to a restricted industrial area shall front towards these streets or
areas.
8.1.4. Toilet Facilities: All buildings shall have the necessary toilet facilities fully
installed inside the building, connected to septic tanks or municipal sewage service.
A satisfactory drainage tile field shall be connected with each septic tank.
8.1.5. Parking Space: Parking space, off all public roads, shall be provided sufficient
for all employees and visitors, with a minimum of one space as defined in 7.1.4 for
each Five Hundred (500) square feet of building, which space may include that
referred to under 8.1.1.4
8.1.6. Commercial Buildings: Any building erected, structurally altered,
enlarged or maintained for commercial purposes in an industrial zone shall comply
with the regulations for commercial zones—Sections 7.1 to 7.2.5 inclusive."
"BY-LAWS 99
8.1.6.1. Front, Side and Rear Yards: Such yards shall be provided to conform with the
provisions of Section 8.1.1. paragraphs 1,2,3,4 and 8.1.2.
8.1.6.2. Subject to 8.1.6.1 of this Sub-Section, all such buildings shall comply with all
other regulations provided in Section 7.1.1 (General Provisions) and Section 7.1.3.
8.1.7. Other Non-Residential Buildings or Structures: In an Industrial Zone any building
erected, structurally altered or used for non-residential purposes other than Industrial shall
comply with the Regulations provided in 7.1.1, 7.1.3 and 7.1.4.
8.1.8. Residential Buildings: Any building erected, structurally altered or used for
residential purposes in an industrial zone shall comply with the regulations provided in
Sections 6.1 to 6.2.3 inclusive; but Clause 6.1.6.2 shall not apply.
8.2. Restricted Industrial Zone: The following regulations shall apply in the Restricted
Industrial Zone, as described in Schedule ""D"" to this By-Law
8.2.1. Use: No building, structure or land shall be used, and no building or structure shall
be hereafter erected, structurally altered, enlarged or maintained except for the following
uses:
8.2.1.1. Residential: Any building erected, structurally altered or used for residential
purposes in an industrial zone shall comply with the regulations provided in Section 6.1 to
65.3 inclusive; but Clause 6.1.6.2 shall not apply
8.2.1.2. Business: The following types of uses—Banks; clothes cleaning agencies and
pressing establishments; laundry agencies; offices, business and professional;
photographers; theatres; undertaking establishments; morgues.
Filling stations and public garages and public parking areas except on property
Three Hundred (300) feet or less from the East or North boundaries of the area.
Shops for the repair or manufacture of small goods and wares; laundries; dairies;
bakeries; printers; cleaners and dyers; corporation yards; storage warehouses.
Manufacturing and Industrial establishments which are not obnoxious by reason of
the emission of odour, dust, smoke, noise, gas fumes, cinders, vibration,
refuse matter, water-carried waste, or by reason of danger. The prohibitions under
Section 8.3.1.2 shall apply here
8.2.1.3. Recreational: The following types of uses—Parks, playgrounds operated by
the Township; athletic clubs; badminton clubs; lawn bowling clubs; tennis clubs;
community centres.
8.2.1.4. Institutional: Schools (public, separate, private and nursery); colleges;
churches; church halls; Sunday Schools; libraries; museums; art galleries;
fraternal societies.
8.2.1.5. Public: Municipal, Provincial, or Federal Public buildings Fire Halls;
Police Stations; Monuments; Rest Rooms.
8.2.1.6. Accessory Uses: Private garages; neighbourhood garages"
"100 BY-LAWS
8.2.2. Railroad Facilities: There shall be no railways nor railway sidings permitted.
8.2.3. Area: No building or structure shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered,
enlarged or maintained, except in accordance with the regulations provided in 8.1
(General Provisions).
8.3. Heavy Industrial Zone: The following regulations shall apply in the Heavy Industrial
Zone, as described in Schedule ""E"" to this By-Law
8.3.1. Use: No building, structure or land shall be used and no building or structure shall
be hereafter erected, structurally altered, enlarged or maintained except for the following
uses:
8.3.1.1. Residential: Any building erected, structurally altered or used for residential
purposes in an industrial zone shall comply with the regulations provided in Sections 6.1
to 6.2.3 inclusive; but Clause 6.1.6.2 shall not apply.
8.3.1.2. Business: Industrial manufacturing and commercial purposes of all kinds
which are not objectionable by reason of emission of dust, smoke or fumes,
undue noise or by reason of danger and shall include the following:
The manufacture or assembly of light electrical equipment and electrical appliances;
The manufacture or production of chemicals;
The manufacture of non-dangerous metal products;
A cartage or truck transport yard and garage;
A storage warehouse for raw materials, finished parts or products, and other similar
uses which are not more objectionable or dangerous
BUT the following trades, industries or uses are prohibited:
(a) Blood boiling, bone boiling, refining coal oil, extracting oil from fish, storing hides,
soap boiling, tallow melting, tripe boiling, slaughtering animals, tanning hides or
skins, manufacturing glue, manufacture of illuminating gas, distillation of coal, bones or
wood, fertilizers from dead animals, from human or animal waste, stone crushing or any
other trade, business or manufacture which is or may become a nuisance
AND the following purposes are prohibited:
(b) Acetylene gas manufacture, ammonia, chlorine or bleach powder manufacture,
asphalt manufacture or asphalt refining (provided that nothing in this By-Law shall
prevent the use of refined asphalt for or in connection with the preparation of road
building, flooring or surfacing substances, compounds or materials); blast furnace
boiler works, brick, tile or terra cotta manufacture (this provision shall not prevent the
making of cement or concrete blocks, pipes or tile), celluloid manufacture or treatment,
creosote treatment or manufacture, coke ovens, dyestuff manufacture, gunpowder
manufacture or storage, lamp black manufacture, lime, cement or
plaster-of-paris"
"BY-LAWS 101
manufacture, potash refining, rolling mills smelting or iron, stockyards, storage or baling
of scraps, paper, rags or junk, tar distillation or manufacture, tar roofing or waterproofing
manufacture, wool pulling or scouring, yeast plant.
8.3.1.3. Recreational: The following types of uses—Parks, playgrounds, operated by
the Township; athletic clubs, badminton clubs; lawn bowling clubs; tennis clubs;
community centres.
8.3.1.4. Institutional: Schools (public, separate, private and nursery); colleges;
churches; church halls; Sunday schools; libraries; museums; art galleries; fraternal
societies.
8.3.1.5. Public: Municipal, Provincial or Federal Public Buildings; Fire Halls; Police
Stations; Monuments; Rest Rooms.
8.3.1.6. Accessory Uses: Private garages; neighbourhood garages; public garages.
8.3.1.7. Railroad Facilities: There shall be no railway nor railway siding permitted on
the front yard space of One Hundred (100) feet provided under Section 8.1.1.2.
8.3.2. Area: No building or structure shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered,
enlarged or maintained except in accordance with the regulations provided in Section
8.1 (General Provisions)
9. Section 9—General Provisions
9.1. Licenses and Permits: Nothing in this By-Law shall operate to relieve any person
from the obligation to comply with the requirements of Building By-Laws or any other
By-Laws of the Township of Pickering in force from time to time, or the obligation to
obtain any license, permit, authority or approval required under any other By-Law of the
Township of Pickering.
9.2. Buildings Under Construction: Nothing in this By-Law shall require any change
in the building construction or use of any proposed building or structure for which the
Inspector of Buildings had issued a building permit prior to the passing of this By-Law,
provided that the erection of said building or structure is completed within two years
from the date of such permit.
9.3. Exceptions
9.3.1. Use: The provisions of this By-Law shall not be construed as to limit or
interfere with the construction, installation, operation and maintenance for public
utility purposes, of water and gas pipes, mains and conduits, sewers and sewer
mains, electric light and electrical transmission and distribution lines, telephone and
telegraph lines, oil pipe lines and incidental appurtenances.
9.3.2. Height: The height regulations provided in this By-Law shall not apply to church
spires, church belfries, chimneys, water tanks, flags and radio or television poles.
9.4. Non-Conforming Buildings and Uses
9.4.1. Non-Conforming Buildings"
"102 BY-LAWS
9.4.1.1. Existing Non-Conforming Buildings: Subject to subsection 9.4.1.2,
a building which, at the date of enactment of this By-Law, is used for a purpose
not permissible within the zone in which it is located, shall not be enlarged, extended,
reconstructed, or otherwise structurally altered, unless such building is thereafter to be
used for a purpose permitted within such zone, provided, however, that the interior of
such building may be reconstructed or structurally altered, in order to render the same
more convenient or commodious for the same purpose for which, at the date of
enactment of this By-Law, such building is used.
9.4.1.2. Partial Destruction of Existing Non-Conforming Buildings:
A building which is damaged to the extent of fifty per cent or more of its value
(exclusive of walls below grade) as at the date of the damage and as
determined by fair building standards, and which does not comply with the use,
area or height regulations of this By-Law, shall not be restored except in conformity
with the regulations for the use zone in which such building is located
9.4.1.3. Reconstruction of Damaged Non-Conforming Buildings: Nothing in this
By-Law shall apply to prevent the reconstruction or continued use of any non-conforming
building or structure which is damaged by causes beyond the control of the owner
subsequent to the date of enactment thereof, providing the residual value of such building
or structure exceeds fifty per cent of the value thereof immediately prior to the damage.
9.4.2. Non-Conforming Use of Buildings
9.4.2.1. Continuation of Use: The non-conforming use of an existing building or structure
may be continued provided that no structural alterations are made therein, other than
those which may be required by existing law or By-Law, or which may render the same
more convenient or commodious for the purpose for which, at the date of enactment of
this By-Law, such building is used, and provided also that no new building or extension to
such building is erected.
9.4.2.2. Change of Use: A non-conforming use of a building or structure shall not be
changed except to a conforming use. If such non-conforming use or portion thereof is
changed to a conforming use any future use of such building, structure, or portion
thereof shall be in conformity with the regulations of the zone in which such building or
structure is located.
9.4.2.3. Discontinued Use: Any non-conforming use of a building or structure which
is discontinued or unused for more than twelve (12) consecutive months shall not be
resumed or shall such non-conforming use be changed to any other non-conforming
use
9.4.2.4. Vacant Non-Conforming Buildings: A vacant non-conforming building
or structure may be occupied for a use for which the building or structure was
designed or intended if so occupied within a period of twelve (12) months after
the date of"
"BY-LAWS 103
enactment of this By-Law, and a non-conforming building or structure which becomes
vacant after the date of enactment of this By-Law may also be occupied for a use for
which the building or structure was designed or intended if so occupied within a period
of twelve (12j months after the building becomes vacant.
9.5. Building Permits
9.5.1. No excavation for any building shall be started until a building permit has been
issued by the Inspector of Buildings.
9.5.2. Every person proposing to erect or structurally alter any building or structure shall,
when applying for a building permit, file with the Inspector of Buildings,
a signed statement as to the use or purpose for which such building or structural
alteration is intended and that the lot to be built upon is owned by the person so
applying and evidence of such ownership, together with duplicate copies of the plans
of such building and lot drawn to a scale of not less than one-eighth of an inch to a foot
showing the actual dimensions, including radii and angles of the lot to be built upon,
all buildings existing upon the said lot with the heights and dimensions of same,
the heights and dimensions of the proposed building, the disposition of the buildings
upon contiguous lots, and other such information as may be necessary to provide for
the enforcement of this By-Law, and, if such building is designed in a manner or
intended for a use not permitted within the zone concerned, no building permit shall be
issued.
9.5.3. No building permit shall be issued for the erection of a building or structure on
land where by reason of its low-lying, marshy or unstable character,
the cost of construction of satisfactory waterworks, sewage or drainage facilities is
prohibitive.
9.6. Certificate of Occupancy
9.6.1. No building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall be occupied or used
until a certificate of occupancy has been issued by the Inspector of Buildings.
9.6.2. All applications for a certificate of occupancy shall be made on a printed form to
be furnished by the Inspector of Buildings.
9.6.3. A certificate of occupancy shall be issued after the request for same has
been made in writing to the Inspector of Buildings after the erection or structural
alteration of such building or part thereof has been completed in conformity with the
provisions of this By-Law, and such certificate shall state that the building or proposed
use of the building complies with the provisions thereof.
9.6.4. A record of all certificates shall be kept on file in the office of the Inspector of
Buildings and copies shall be furnished, on request, to any person having a proprietory
or tenancy interest in the building affected. A fee of Two Dollars ($2.00)
shall be charged for each original certificate of occupancy and a fee of
Twenty-Five Cents (.25c) each shall be charged for duplicate copies of the
certificate."
"104 BY-LAWS
9.7. Zoning Administrator: The Inspector of Buildings, appointed by the Township
Council, shall be the Zoning Administrator, whose duty it shall be to see that the
provisions of this By-Law are carried out
9.8. Violations and Penalties
9.8.1. Any person convicted of a breach of any of the provisions of this By-Law or of
any of its several sections shall forfeit and pay in the discretion of the convicting
Magistrate a penalty not exceeding (exclusive of costs) the sum of Fifty Dollars
($50.00) for each offence, recoverable under the Municipal Act and the Summary
Convictions Act
9.8.2. Upon a conviction for a breach of any of the provisions of this By-Law,
the convicting Magistrate, besides imposing a penalty may order the offender to
carry out the requirements of this By-Law within a time to be limited by the order.
In default of the offender carrying out such order, the said Magistrate may order the
Inspector of Buildings, or any other person, to forthwith enter upon the premises where
the said breach has taken place and demolish or remove the structure or the part thereof
erected or structurally altered contrary to the provisions of this By-Law, at the expense of
the offender.
9.8.3. The conviction of an offender upon a breach of any of the provisions of this
By-Law, shall not operate as a bar to a prosecution against the same offender
upon any subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions of this By-Law.
The presiding Magistrate may convict any offender repeatedly for repeated breaches
of this By-Law, and may, at his discretion, impose upon each conviction any of the
penalties provided for by this By-Law.
9.9. Validity: Should any section, clause or provision of this By-Law be declared by a
court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid the same shall not affect the validity of the
By-Law as a whole or any part thereof, other than the part so declared to be invalid.
9.9.1. Effective Date: This By-Law shall come into effect upon the day that it receives
the approval of the Ontario Municipal Board.
BY-LAW read a First time this 14th day of December, A.D. 1953.
BY-LAW read a Second time this 14th day of December, A.D. 1953.
BY-LAW read a Third time and finally PASSED this 18th day of December, 1953.
GEORGE T. TODD Reeve
L. T. JOHNSTON Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 105
SCHEDULE ""A""
to
BY-LAW NUMBER 1978
of
THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING RESIDENTIAL ZONE
""R.I""
ALL land lying and being in the Township of Pickering bounded on the west by the
Pickering-Scarborough Town Line, on the north and east by the centre line of the
Rouge River and on the south by Lake Ontario, save and except those portions or
parcels of said land as described in Schedules ""B"", ""C"", ""D"" and ""E"" to this
By-Law
SCHEDULE ""B""
to
BY-LAW NUMBER 1978
of
THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING RESIDENTIAL ZONE
""R.2""
1. All land bounded on the west by the Pickering-Scarborough Town Line, on the
north and east by the centre line of the Rouge River, lying south of the Canadian National
Railways right-of-way and north of Lake Ontario
2. All land bounded on the north and east by the centre line of the Rouge River,
on the south by the Canadian National Railways right-of-way and on the west by a
line described as follows:
COMMENCING at the most northerly point of Lot Number Ninety-nine (99) according to
Plan 320 for the Township of Pickering; THENCE continuing in a south-easterly direction
along the most easterly limits of Lots Number Ninety-nine (99) to One Hundred and Nine
(109) inclusive, Plan 320 and continuing along the most easterly limits of Lots Number
Thirteen (13) to Eighteen (18) inclusive, Plan 276; THENCE in a southerly direction
along the most easterly limits of Lots Numbers Nineteen to Twenty-four inclusive,
Plan 276, and Lot Number Two Hundred and Seventy-One (271), Plan 284; THENCE
continuing westerly along the south limit of said Lot No. Two Hundred and Seventy-One
(271) and on a curve south-westerly, southerly, south easterly and easterly along the
south limit of Lot Number Two Hundred and Seventy-Two (272), Plan 284 and the most
easterly limits of Lots Numbers One (1) to Three (3) inclusive, Plan 284, Lot Number
Two Hundred and Seventy-Three (273), Plan 284, Lots Number Six (6) to Thirty-seven
(37) inclusive, Plan 284 and the most northerly limits of Lots Number Thirty-eight (38)
to Fifty-nine (59) inclusive, Plan 284; THENCE con-"
"106 BY-LAWS
tinuing in a south-easterly, southerly, and south-westerly direction along the most
easterly limits of Lots Numbers Fifty-nine (59> to Eighty-one (81) inclusive, Plan 284;
THENCE continuing in a south-easterly direction along the most easterly limits of Lots
Numbers Eighty-two (82) to Ninety-Five (95) inclusive, Plan 284; THENCE continuing in
a south-easterly direction along the most easterly limits of Lots Numbers Two Hundred
and Seventy-four (274) and Two Hundred and Seventy-six (276), Plan 284, to the north
limit of the Canadian National Railways right-of-way.
SCHEDULE ""C""
to BY-LAW NUMBER 1978
of
THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING COMMERCIAL ZONES
1. All land bounded on the west by the Pickering-Scarborough Town Line and on the east
by the centre line of the Rouge River, fronting on the north limit of Highway Number Two
(2) and extending north therefrom to a depth of Three Hundred (300) feet.
2. All land bounded on the west by the Pickering-Scarborough Town Line, on the east by
the centre line of the Rouge River, on the north by Highway Number Two (2) and on the
south by Highway Number Four Hundred and One (401).
3. All land bounded on the west by the Pickering-Scarborough Town Line, on the east by
the road allowance between Lots Numbers Thirty-four (34) and Thirty-five (35), on the
north by Highway Number Four Hundred and One (401) and on the south by Island
Road
4. Lots One (1) to Sixteen (16) inclusive, Plan 320 for the Township of Pickering.
5. An irregularly shaped block or parcel of land having a frontage on the south limit of
Island Road of five hundred and forty (540) feet by a depth on the road allowance
between Lots Number Thirty-four (34) and Thirty-five (35) (East Avenue) of Two Hundred
(200) feet, more particularly described as follows: All and singular that certain parcel or
tract of land and premises situate, lying and being in the Township of Pickering and being
composed of part of Lot Number Thirty-four (34) Range Two (2) in said Township.
COMMENCING at a point on the south limit of Island Road distant Five Hundred and
Forty (540) feet therealong from the intersection of the east limit of the road allowance
between Lots Numbers Thirty-four (34) and Thirty-five (35), Range Two (2), with said
south limit; THENCE westerly along said south limit to"
"BY-LAWS 107
said intersection; THENCE southerly along the east limit of said road allowance a
distance of Two Hundred (200) feet to a point; THENCE easterly a distance of Seven
Hundred and Forty (740) feet to a point distant Four Hundred and Fifty (450) feet
southerly in a straight line from the point of commencement; THENCE along said last
mentioned line a distance of Four Hundred and Fifty (450) feet to the point of
commencement, being Block A of a Plan of survey bearing date the 17th day of June,
1953, and prepared by H. S. Wilde, O.L.S.
6. All land bounded on the west by the Pickering-Scarborough Town Line and on the
east by the road allowance between Lots Numbers Thirty-four (34) and Thirty-five (35),
fronting on the south limit of Island Road and extending south therefrom to a depth of
Three Hundred and Thirty (330) feet.
SCHEDULE ""D""
to BY-LAW NUMBER 1978
Of THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
RESTRICTED INDUSTRIAL ZONE
Land being composed of part of Lot Number Thirty-Five (35) in Range Two (2) in the
Township of Pickering, which said land may be described as follows:
PREMISING THAT the westerly limit of Lot Number Thirty-five (35) has an assumed
bearing of north sixteen (16) degrees fifty-two (52) minutes west, and relating all
bearings herein thereto. COMMENCING at a point in the westerly limit of said Lot
Number Thirty-five (35), distant Four Thousand Three Hundred and Twenty-five (4,325)
feet Eight (8) inches measured southerly thereon from the north-west angle thereof,
the said point being marked with an iron pipe; THENCE north seventy-six (76) degrees
fifty-one (51) minutes east, One Thousand Three Hundred and Twenty-eight a,328) feet
to the easterly limit of said lot, and being the westerly limit of the road allowance between
Lots Numbers Thirty-four (34) and Thirty-five (35); THENCE southerly along the westerly
limit of said road allowance and said easterly limit of said lot, One Thousand Two
Hundred and Twenty-six (1,226) feet Three (3) inches to an iron pipe; THENCE south
eighty-one (81) degrees forty-eight (48) minutes west One Thousand Three Hundred
and Forty-two (1,342) feet Two (2) inches to an iron pipe planted in the westerly limit of
said lot; THENCE north sixteen (16) degrees fifty-two (52) minutes west along the
westerly limit of said lot, One Thousand One Hundred and Ten (1,110) feet Nine (9)
inches more or less to the place of beginning"
"108 BY-LAWS
SCHEDULE ""E""
to BY-LAW NUMBER 1978
of THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
HEAVY INDUSTRIAL ZONE
Land described as follows: COMMENCING at a point being the intersection of the east
limit of the Pickering-Scarborough Town Line with the north limit of the Canadian National
Railways right-of-way; THENCE northerly along the east limit of said Town Line,
being also the west limit of Lot Number Thirty-five (35), Range Two (2), to a point thereon
distant One Thousand One Hundred and Eighty-three (1,183) feet north of the southwest
angle of said Lot Number Thirty-five (35); THENCE easterly in a straight line to a point in
the east limit of East Avenue, being also the west limit of Lot Number Thirty-four (34),
Range Two (2), said point being distant thereon One Thousand and Twenty (1,020) feet
Eleven (11) inches north from the south-west angle of said Lot Number Thirty-four (34);
THENCE northerly along the said west limit of Lot Number Thirty-four (34) to a point
thereon where the said limit is intersected by the southerly limit of Block ""A"", Plan 319,
for the Township of Pickering; THENCE easterly along the southerly limit of said Block
""A"" and its production easterly to the intersection thereof with the centre line of a creek
running through Block ""D"", Plan 319; THENCE along said centre line of creek and
following the course thereof in a south-easterly direction to its intersection with the north
limit of the Canadian National Railways right-of-way; THENCE southwesterly along the
north limit of right-of-way to the point of commencement."
"BY-LAWS 109
BY-LAW NUMBER 1980.A.
of The Corporation of the Township of Pickering
NOW. THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED as a By-law of
The Corporation of the Township of Pickering by the Council thereof as follows:-
1. No person shall within the Township of Pickering commit the offence commonly
known as ""window peeping.""
2. In this by-law the word ""person"" shall mean the singular number or plural number,
the masculine gender or female gender as the case may be.
3. Any person contravening this by-law shall be liable, upon con-viction« to a penalty
or fine not exceeding the sum of FIFTY DOLLARS ($50.00) exclusive of costs and such
penalty shall be recoverable under the provisions of The Summary Convictions Act,
R.S.O. 1950, chapter 379, and amendments thereto, all provisions of which shall apply
except that the imprisonment may be for a term of not more than twenty-one (21) days.
By-law read a first time this 27th day of January, 1954.
By-law read a second time this 27th day of January, 1954.
By-law read a third time and finally passed this 27th day of January, 1954.
GEORGE T. TODD. Reeve.
L, T. JOHNSTON. Clerk."
"110 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 1984
of THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
A By-Law To Amend By-Law Number 1978.
The Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering enacts as follows:
1. Section 5.12A of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed and the following substituted
therefor:
5.12A FRONT: Exposed front of a commercial or industrial building shall be a completed
exterior of brick, glass, wood, stone or other similar material, but shall exclude concrete
block, cinder block or similar. No loading platforms shall be permitted on a front of a
commercial or industrial building.
2. Section 6.1.3.2. of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed and the following substituted
therefor:
6.1.3.2. In the case of a building on a corner lot, the minimum distance from the side
lot line on the street side shall be fifteen (151 feet.
3. Section 6.1.5.1. of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed and the following substituted
therefor:
6.1.5.1. All accessory buildings shall be in the rear yard. The distance of any accessory
building from any rear or side lot line shall be a minimum of eighteen (18) inches clear of
all projections save and except where a mutual garage is erected on the common
property line between two properties.
4. Section 6.1.12. of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed and the following substituted
therefor:
6.1.12. LIVE STOCK
Subject to sub-section 6.1.12.1. the keeping of live stock or fowl shall be prohibited on
parcels of land less than five (5) acres. This shall not prohibit the keeping of dogs, cats,
canaries or similar caged birds, etc., as domestic pets.
5. Section 6.1.2. of By-Law Number 1978 is amended by adding thereto the following
sub-section 6.1.12.1.
6.1.12.1. A maximum of fifty (50) chickens may be kept on parcels of land of two (2)
acres or more but of less than five (5i acres if, on the effective date of this By-Law,
such land is held by a veteran under the"
"BY-LAWS 111
terms of an Agreement of Sale in accordance with the provisions of the Veterans' Land
Act, provided however, that this subsection shall no longer apply if part or all of such
parcel is sold, rented, subdivided, or disposed of in any way by the veteran.
6. Section 6.2.1.6. of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed and the following substituted
therefor:
6.2.1.6. ACCESSORY USES - of subdivided property; private garages, pump houses,
green houses. On parcels of five (5) acres or more, farm buildings shall be allowed. On
parcels of two (2) acres or more but of less than five (5) acres, qualifying under Section
6.1.12.1 chicken houses shall be permitted providing they are located at least fifteen (15)
feet from any lot line.
7. Section 6.3.3.1. of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed.
8. Section 7.1.2. of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed.
9. Section 7.1.3. of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed and the following substituted
therefor:
7.1.3. LOADING SPACE
Every commercial building hereafter erected or established on a lot which abuts upon a
lane or is surrounded on all sides by streets, shall have one permanently maintained
loading space of a minimum size of Twenty (20) feet in width, Ten (10) feet in depth and
fourteen (14) feet in height, to be located in the rear of such building. Where two
properties adjoin, provision may be made for a common loading space of a minimum
size of Thirty (30) feet in width, Ten (10) feet in depth and Fourteen (14i feet in height,
half of such area to be reserved in each of the two properties concerned.
10. Section 7.1.4. of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed and the following
substituted therefor:
7.1.4. AUTOMOBILE PARKING SPACE:
As an alternative to Section 7.1.1.1. there shall be provided for every new building
erected, after the date of enactment of this By-Law. for one of the following purposes,
permanent automobile parking spaces to be located on the same lot with the said
building or not more than One Thousand (1,000) feet therefrom, with adequate
provision for access to a street or lane, each parking space to be not less than two
hundred (200) square feet in area. Such parking spaces shall be provided sufficient
for the employers' and customers' cars with the minimum as follows:"
"112 BY-LAWS
11. Section 7.1.7.1 of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed.
12. Section 8.1.5. of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed and the following substituted
therefor:
8.1.5. PARKING SPACE
Parking space, off all public roads, shall be provided sufficient for all employees and
visitors, with a minimum of one (1) space as defined and Section 7.1.4. for each Five
Hundred (500) square feet of building or in the alternative one (1) space for every five
employees, whichever is greater. Such space may include that referred to under
Section 8.1.1.4.
13. Section 8.1.8. of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed.
14. Section 8.2.1.1.. of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed and the following
substituted therefor:
8.2.1.1. RESIDENTIAL
Residential buildings shall not be permitted in an industrial zone except insofar as
such buildings may be required as a residence for a night watchman or other employee
or employees essential to the safe-guarding of an industry. Any building erected,
structurally altered or used for residential purposes in an industrial zone shall comply
with the regulations provided in Section 6.1.1. to 6.2.3. inclusive; but Section 6.1.6.2.
shall not apply.
15. Section 8.3.1.1. of By-Law Number 1978 is repealed and the following
substituted therefor:
8.3.1.1. RESIDENTIAL
Residential buildings shall not be permitted in an industrial zone except insofar as
such buildings may be required as a residence for a night watchman or other
employee or employees essential to the safeguarding of an industry. Any building
erected, structurally altered or used for residential purposes in an industrial zone shall
comply with the regulations provided in Section 6.1.1. to 6.2.3. inclusive;
but Section 6.1.6.2. shall not apply.
16. This By-Law shall come into effect upon the day that it receives the approval of
The Ontario Municipal Board.
By Law read a first time this 22nd day of February, A.D. 1954.
By-Law read a second time this 22nd day of February, A.D. 1954.
By-Law read a third time and finally passed this 22nd day of February, A.D. 1954.
""George T. Todd"" Reeve
""L. T. Johnston"" Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 113
BY-LAW NUMBER 2006
A By-Law of The Corporation of the Township of Pickering to Amend By-Law Number
1787.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED as a By-Law
of The Corporation of the Township of Pickering by the Council thereof as follows:
1. THAT By-Law Number 1787 be amended by striking out Section 1 thereof and
substituting therefor the following Section 1, which shall read as follows:
Section 1.
No person shall hereafter within the Township of Pickering erect any dwelling house or
summer cottage, if, of one storey in height, having a ground floor area of less than nine
hundred and sixty (960) square feet and, if, of one storey and one half in height, having a
ground floor area of less than seven hundred and fifty square feet (750), and, if of two
stories in height or more, having a ground floor area of less than six hundred and fifty
(650) square feet, and in each instance the floor area shall be measured within the
outside walls or outside finished furred partitions thereof and shall not include garages,
either attached or otherwise, porches, terraces, breezeways or any other appurtenant
structure or lean-to which is not an integral part of the main habitable structure.
Section 1 (b)
No person shall hereafter, within the Township of Pickering, erect any dwelling house or
summer cottage, without providing inside plumbing therefor, complete with a three piece
bathroom set.
2. That By-Law Number 1787 be further amended by striking out Subsection (b)
of Section 2 and substituting therefor the following Subsection (b) which shall read as
follows:
Section 2 (b)
Trailers and overnight cabins shall not be permitted hereafter
in the Township of Pickering.
3. This amending By-Law shall take effect from and after its approval by the
Ontario Municipal Board and the issue of its formal order therefor.
BY-LAW read a first time this 4th day of May, 1954.
BY-LAW read a second time this 4th day of May. 1954.
BY-LAW read a third time and finally passed this 4th day of May, 1954.
""George T. Todd"" Reeve
""L. T. Johnston"" Clerk"
"114 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 2009
of THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
A By-Law to prohibit the running at large of dogs within the Township of Pickering,
to appoint a dog catcher, to establish a Dog Pound and regulations required in
connection therewith.
WHEREAS the Council of the Township of Pickering deems it advisable that the
running at large of dogs be prohibited in the Township of Pickering, save as hereinafter
provided;
AND WHEREAS the Council of the Township of Pickering deems it advisable to appoint
a Dog Catcher, to establish a Dog Pound and to provide proper regulations in connection
therewith.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED, as a By-Law of
the Corporation of the Township of Pickering by the Council thereof as follows:
1. In this By-Law
(a) ""dog"" means any dog male or female.
(b) ""owner"" of a dog includes any person who possess or harbours a dog and ""owns""
and ""owned"" have a corresponding meaning.
(c) ""running at large"" a dog shall be deemed to be running at large when found on a
highway or other public or private place and not being under the control of any person.
2. No owner of any female dog shall allow or permit, while in heat, such dog to run at
large within the limits of the Township of Pickering.
3. No owner shall allow or permit any dog to run at large within the limits of the Township
of Pickering save and except farm dogs used or employed in the care of cattle or sheep.
4. No person shall allow their dog to become a nuisance (such as by excessive barking,
howling or unduly bothering pedestrians or bicyclists on any road way). Any person so
aggrieved may appear before a Justice of Peace and swear out an information charging
the owner thereof with a breach of this Section.
5. Any person shall be entitled to take charge of any dog found running at large and
deliver the same to the pound keeper in the Township of Pickering or to a Constable of
the Township of Pickering."
"BY-LAWS 115
6. Any dog found breaking any of the provisions of this By-Law may be impounded.
7. (1) Clifford Schwalm is and he is hereby appointed Dog Cat-
cher for the Township of Pickering.
(2) The salary of the said Dog Catcher shall be fixed by the Council of the Township of
Pickering by By-Law, from time to time, together with the mileage which shall be
permitted him for the use of his car when on Township business.
(3) The said Dog Catcher shall provide a Dog Pound located in his present barn on the
south half of Lot Number Thirty-two (32) of the First Concession of the Township of
Pickering. The manner in which the dogs are kept and attended to in the said building
shall be as specified by the Sanitary Inspector or as may be directed by the Board of
Health.
(4) The said Dog Pound shall be opened daily between the hours of six p.m. and eight
p.m. local time, for receiving or delivering of dogs.
8. All dogs found by the said Dog Catcher running at large on public or private property
not owned by the owner of the said dogs and dogs not under control of any person,
may be lodged in the Dog Pound by the said Dog Catcher and he shall feed and water
the said dogs for a period of seventy-two (72) hours after he has notified the owner that
said dog or dogs have been committed to the Pound.
9. The Dog Catcher shall, within twenty-four (24) hours from seizure of any dog or
within twenty-four (24) hours from the time any dog is taken into the Dog Pound, notify the
owner of any dog bearing a tag.
10. If the owner of said dogs impounded that bear tags fails to claim his, or her, dog or
dogs and pay the Dog Catcher One Dollar ($1.00) per day or part thereof, said dog or
dogs shall be disposed of at the end of the said seventy-two hour period as hereinafter
provided and the owner shall have no recourse against the Municipality or Dog
Catcher.
11. If there is no tag on any dog seized or taken or put in the pound, the Pound Keeper
shall dispose of any dog so seized or impounded at the end of ninety-six (96) hours in the
manner hereinafter provided.
12. The pound keeper shall post up on a notice board in his premises, a description
of any dog seized or taken into the pound, together with the name of the owner if
known. He shall also notify the Clerk of all seizures and the Clerk shall post up a
similar notice in or on the Municipal Building."
"116 BY-LAWS
13. (1) Dogs that have to foe destroyed shall be disposed of in such manner as the
Council may from time to time by resolution direct.
(2) Dogs are to be destroyed at the end of the seventy-two (72) hour or ninety-six (96)
hour period as above-mentioned unless a sale has been arranged or unless the pound
keeper for any other reason, with the approval of the Clerk in writing, decides that the
period should be extended.
14. Any dog believed to be vicious found in a public place or on property other than
that of the owner of the dog, may be shot by the Dog Catcher in the presence of the Chief
Constable of the Township of Pickering, or his deputy, between sun-up and sun-down.
15. (1) The Dog Catcher shall charge One Dollar ($1.00) per day for food for each
dog reclaimed, of which amount he shall be entitled to seventy-five (75.) cents per day for
dog food and remit twenty-five (25) cents per day to the Municipality. If the dog or dogs
are not claimed, the Dog Catcher shall be paid fifty (50) cents per day by the Municipality
for each dog for food supplied.
(2) The Dog Catcher shall send a report by the end of each month giving the details of
dogs seized or taken into the pound, the disposition made of the dogs and of any
charges made and any monies received and such further or other information as the
Clerk may require.
16. No dog shall be returned to the owner if it has not a tag for the current year.
Any owner of a dog without a tag and any purchaser of a dog shall obtain a tag for the
current year before delivery is made.
17. A penalty of not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) exclusive of costs shall be imposed
upon every person who contravenes the provisions of this By-Law and every such penalty
shall be recoverable under the provisions of The Summary Convictions Act.
18. This By-tLaw be effective as of the date of the passing of this By-Law.
19. By-tLaws Numbers 1750 and 1830 are hereby repealed.
BY-LAW read a First, Second and Third time and finally passed this Tenth day of May,
1954.
""George T. Todd"" Reeve
""L. T. Johnston"" Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 117
BY-LAW NUMBER 2010
OF THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
A By-Law to amend By-Law Number 1978 as amended by By-Law Number 1984.
The Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering enacts as follows:
1. Section 6.1.12 and 6.1.12.1. are repealed and the following substituted therefor.
6.1.12. LIVESTOCK
Subject to subsections 6.1.12.1. and 6.1.12.2. the keeping of livestock or fowl shall be
prohibited on parcels of land of less than five (5) acres. This shall not prohibit the keeping
of dogs, cats, canaries or similar caged birds, etc., as domestic pets.
6.1.12.1. Livestock or fowl may be kept on parcels of land of two (2i) acres or more if
on the effective date of this By-Law such land is held by a veteran under the terms of an
agreement of sale in accordance with the provisions of the Veterans' Land Act, pro.
vided, however, that this subsection shall no longer apply if part or all of such parcel is
sold, rented, subdivided or disposed of in any way by the veteran.
6.1.12.2. Livestock or fowl may be kept on parcels of land of two (2) acres or more if
such land is located in Lot Thirty-five (35), Range 2 in the Township of Pickering, save
and except those parts of said Lot Thirty-five (35) as described in Schedules ""D""
and ""E"" to By-Law Number 1978.
2. This By-Law shall come into effect on the date that it receives the approval of the
Ontario Municipal Board.
BY-LAW read a first time this lOtti day of May, A. D. 1954, BY-LAW read a second time
this 10th day of May, A. D. 1954, BY-LAW read a third time and finally passed this 10th
day of May, 1954.
""George T. Todd"" Reeve
""L. T. Johnston"" Clerk"
"118 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 2012
A By-Law of the Municipality of (the Township of Pickering to require owners or
promoters of new Sub-Divisions to do certain work on roads within the Sub-Division
before lots may be sold.
WHEREAS Council desire that all roads in new sub-divisions or re-subdivision of
existing registered lots, meet a certain standard prior to lots being sold, rather than the
Township take them over at a later date under the Local Improvements Act;
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering
that:-
1. All new sub-division roads or re-subdivision of existing registered lots, shall be
sixty-six feet (66') in width; shall be graded and ditched so that from shoulder to shoulder
the minimum width shall be at least twenty-eight feet (28') and the travelled portion of
such roads shall receive a coating of good quality gravel or broken stone at least eight
(8"") in depth to a width of at least twenty feet.
2. All necessary cross culverts shall be installed of sufficient size to carry the
maximum drainage of water and said water shall be carried to a natural drainage outlet.
3. No lots may be sold, or agreed to be sold, fronting on 6uch sub-division roads
until a certificate, signed by the Township Road Engineer, or Township Road
Superintendent, has been given.
4. By-Law 1874 be and it is hereby repealed.
5. Any person violating any of the provisions of this By-Law shall be subject to a
penalty of not less that $25.00 for the first offence, and not more than $50.00 for every
subsequent offence, exclusive of costs, and all such penalties shall be recoverable under
""The Ontario Summary Convictions Act.""
BY-LAW read a First and Second time this 25-th day of May, 1954 BY-LAW read a
Third time and PASSED this 25th day of May, 1954
""George T. Todd"" Reeve
""L. T. Johnston"" Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 119
BY-LAW NUMBER 2016
A By-Law lo regulate the erection and to provide for the safety of buildings.
WHEREAS it is expedient and necessary to regulate the erection, alteration,
enlargmenl, repair and removal, and generally to provide for the safely and fire protection
of buildings and health and sanitation in dwellings in the Township of Pickering;
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Council of the Corporation of the Township of
Pickering as follows:
SECTION 1 ADMINISTRATION
101 Short Title
This By-JLaw may be cited as the ""Building By-Law"" and is hereinafter referred to as
""this code.""
Wherever applicable, the provisions of this code shall apply to all buildings and the term
""buildings"" shall include other structures.
Where in this code such terms as ""proper"" ""adequate"" ""sufficient"" ""ample""
""suitable"" ""substantial"" ""necessary"" ""dangerous"" and the like, or derivatives
thereof are used, they shall be understood to mean proper, adequate and so forth,
to the satisfaction, or in the opinion of the Building Inspector, and such terms as
""where practicable"", ""where required,"" ""as far as possible"" shall have a like
significance.
102 Standard Specifications and Regulations
All standard specifications and regulations adopted, wholly or in part, in this code are
hereby declared to be a part of this code and all buildings, additions or alterations
hereafter constructed or made shall conform to the provisions of this code.
Where-ever dated specifications or regulations are cited, subsequent editions may
be used subject to permission from the Building Inspector.
Tests
The cost of any test that may be required by this code or by the Building Inspector,
shall be paid for by the person wishing to use the material, device or construction in
question."
"120 BY-LAWS
National Building Code
This code is based on the National Building Code prepared by the National Research
Council, Ottawa, and applies specifically to one or two family dwellings and their
accessory buildings. For other types of buildings and for construction not specifically
contained herein, the provisions of the National Building Code and its amendments
from time to time shall be complied with, in so far as they are applicable.
The National Building Code is hereby a part of this By-iLaw and is attached as
Schedule ""A"". The provisions of the National Building Code shall,
in so far as they are applicable, apply to all buildings, additions or alterations to
buildings constructed or additions or alterations to 'buildings within the Township of
Pickering. Every building, other than one or two family dwellings, and costing Five
Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or more shall have plans signed by a qualified architect or
Engineer. This provision shall not apply to farm accessory buildings when erected at
least thirty feet (30') from the property line.
103 Building Inspector
The provisions of this code shall be enforced by the Building Inspector, or his assistants,
appointed by the Municipal Council.
Records
The Building Inspector shall keep proper records of all applications received,
permits and orders issued, inspections and tests made, reports received and made,
and retain copies of all papers and documents connected with the administration of his
duties.
Inspection
The Building Inspector, or his authorized representative, may at all reasonable hours
enter into or upon any building or premises for the purpose of ascertaining whether or
not the provisions of this code are being complied with.
104 Existing Buildings
Nothing in this code shall require the removal, alteration or abandonment of,
nor .prevent continuance of the use or occupancy of an existing building unless,
in the opinion of the authority having jurisdiction, such building constitutes a hazard
to safety of adjacent property.
GENERAL BUILDING REQUIREMENTS
Excavations
1. Excavations for all foundations shall be extended to solid ground and to a point
sufficiently below finish grade to avoid damage by frost, four feet below finished fill.
2. No foundation footing shall be placed on filled ground unless it is specially
designed and approved."
"BY-LAWS 121
3. The top soil and all vegetable matter in unexcavated areas shall be removed and the
ground levelled shall be at least eighteen inches below the bottom of joist or beams.
4. Unexcavated areas shall be vented through foundation walk with at least two
vents on each side in opposing side walls, of one foot each in size for each &00 feet of
unexcavated area.
5. In all excavations where accumulation of water is likely to occur, foundations and
basements shall be kept dry by placing a continuous row of field tile in a bed of gravel
or cinders around the wall at the level of the footings and below the basement floor level.
All drains shall be connected through a running trap and to a main drain or other waste
water system.
Foundations
1. Where foundation walls are required to be waterproofed, they shall be made
waterproof by applying a coating of coal tar pitch or asphalted or other waterproofed
membrane to the outside of walls to grade level.
2. All concrete block foundation walls enclosing excavated areas must be
waterproofed, the walls shall be parged with cement mortar before applying the
waterproofing. All block walls which are filled with earth both sides shall be made
solid to the height of finished grade or fill.
3. All footings shall bear on undisturbed soil and shall be of concrete mixed to at
least 2000 lb. strength, or masonry, and shall be at least 6 inches thick and extend at
least 4 inches wider than wall above on each side.
4. No exterior concrete or block wall shall be less than 8"" thick for one storey.
(See Code for other widths).
No masonry foundation wall shall be less than 16 inches
thick.
All block walls shall be laid up with full width mortar
joints on all webs.
5. When foundation walls are carrying floor joists and are of block, or semi solid
blocks, the top course shall be made solid by filling with concrete.
6. In no case shall the foundation wall thickness be less than that of the wall above.
7. Mortar for cement block or masonry walls shall be of not less than two parts
cement, one part lime to six parts of clean sand.
8. In no case shall brick or block columns have a gross dimension of less than 12
inches.
9. All masonry chimneys shall have foundations of masonry or concrete which shall
extend down to the level of the foundation wall footing at least."
"122 BY-LAWS
10. Concrete shall be placed in forms erected true to line and well braced against
deflection under load, and forms shall not be removed until concrete has thoroughly set.
11. The ingredients of concrete shall not consist of more than six parts of clean gravel
and sand to one part of cement. All materials shall be clean and free from loam or other
foreign matter.
12. In foundation walls or thick masses of concrete, the use of stone plumbs or fillers
may be made if of sound material and reasonable quantities are used that will not
weaken the concrete.
Basement Floors
1. Basement floors shall be of not less than 3 inches of concrete and trowelled smooth,
made of at least 1 to 5 material of clean sand and stone or clean pit-run gravel and Band.
2. Before pouring the concrete the ground shall be levelled and covered with at least
four inches of gravel or cinders, after sufficient drains have been laid.
3. If basement floors are to be drained, the floor shall be properly sloped to drain outlet,
the drain shall be provided with a trapped floor outlet and grating or strainer set flush
with floor.
Outside Walls
1. All exterior or division walls of buildings hereafter erected shall be of sufficient
thickness to support the load to be carried, but in no case shall a brick, concrete or hollow
block wall be less than eight inches thick.
2. Face brick shall be all new, of good shape and condition. The use of old brick from
old chimneys or coated with soot or creosote is to be avoided. Backing brick may be
used of good stock brick if they are hard burnt and clean. Concrete, cinder or other
approved blocks, properly bonded to the face brick in each second course of blocks
may be used or other approved material.
3. Where the backing is constructed of hollow masonry units, solid masonry of not
less than four inches in depth shall be provided for the bearings of all joists framing
into such walls; or hollow blocks may be filled solid with concrete, lintels over openings,
shall bear upon solid masonry material equivalent in depth to at least two courses of
brick.
Veneer Exteriors
1. Stone veneer six inches thick or better, or brick veneer four inches thick or better
outside a wooden frame construction properly tied is permitted, providing the frame is
substantially built of 2 X 4 studding at not more than"
"BY-LAWS 123
16 inch centres, properly braced and strengthened and sheeted on outside with at least
3/4"" lumber, and covered with waterproof paper lapped at least 2 inches at all joints.
2. All sheeting materias shall be free from decay and shall consist of at least 3/4""
lumber, 1/2"" fibre board, 5/16ths plywood, or 1/2"" Gypsum sheeting equal or better.
3. In frame construction of windows and doors studs shall be cut to receive the lintel
or header over the opening, and shall extend in one piece from lintel or header to bearing,
lintels and headers over all openings shall be doubled and set on edge and be of
sufficient size and thickness and strength to carry the load imposed on same.
4. All sills and bearing plates for rafters framing into or on masonry walls shall be
properly secured to masonry.
5. All sills and girders on top of foundation walls and piers shall be levelled,
shimmied up and thoroughly bedded in cement mortar.
6. Top plates shall be of not less than double 2 X 4's which shall lap at corners and
intersecting partitions, all other double plate joints shall be broken at least three feet
apart. All such laps shall be securely spiked, end joints in top plates shall occur over
studs only.
7. Plank frame may take the place of studding and boarding, but shall be built of three
inch thick plank or two inch plank covered with 7/8 tongued and grooved lumber with
waterproof paper between or other approved siding.
8. All material used in plank or stud framing shall be entirely free from soft rot,
very large knots or shakes, etc., which would impare its nail-holding qualities and
strength.
9. All wood frame construction may be used for outside walls, the outside covering of
wood shall be manufactured from No. 1 and 2 Common White Pine or better,
or equivalent grades of other suitable lumber. Cement or approved stucco on
galvanized lath set on wood furring may be applied as outside covering to a
building with wood frame construction, or any other approved make of siding.
10. Studs in exterior frame walls may run from sill to roof plates providing they do not
exceed 16 feet in length, second floor joists supported on exterior frame shall bear on
at least 1 X 4"" ribbons let into the edge or face of studs, joists bearing on ribbons
shall be securely nailed to the studs.
Chimneys and Flues
1. There shall be a separate flue for each furnace or fireplace installed;
all flues shall be lined with glazed clay tile and surrounded with not less than 4""
of masonry with all hori-ontal joints broken, minimum flue size shall not be less than"
"124 BY-LAWS
7 1/2 X 7 1/2"" inside diameter, and each flue shall have a cast iron clean-out door,
wherever possible two feet below the smoke outlet.
2. No chimney shall be corbelled to an extent of more than eight inches from any wall,
except that where corbelling occurs above the first storey which shall not project to an
extent of more than four inches on either face or any wall.
Rough Carpentry
1. All materials used for rough carpentry work shall be of new material and no
second-hand lumber, removed from other buildings during demolition, shall be
incorporated into houses, unless approved first by the Building Inspector.
WORKMANSHIP shall be of good engineering practice, and to meet the approval of
the Building Inspector.
2. All materials used for joists, rafters, beams and studding for bearing partitions,
shall be structurally sound, free from soft rot, large knots, shakes, etc., that would
impare their strength
.
3. No joists shall be used in which knots are over one-fifth of the depth of the joists,
occur in the middle half of xhe span.
4. For sub-flooring and roof covering, all material shall be reasonably sound and free
from soft rot and at least three-quarters of an inch thick.
5. Exterior Sheeting -- All materials shall be free from decay and shall consist of at
least 3/4"" lumber, or 1/2"" fibre board, 7/16"" Plywood, or 1/2"" Gypsum sheeting,
equal or better.
6. The joists on principal floors shall be spaced at 16 inch centres or less, so as to
avoid spring; in finished flooring joists shall be bridged with 1X2 material or better,
diagonal cross ridging one row if over 10 feet and up to 12 feet, and two rows in spans
over 12 feet.
7. Where floor joists frame into the side of wood girders, the joists shall be supported
on metal joist hangers, or on a bearing strip at least 2X3 inches securely nailed to girder
below joist ends.
8. Floor joists shall be doubled under all partitions which run parallel to the floor joists,
the double joists shall be separated and blocked at four foot intervals where piping or
duct work occur. Headers and trimmers shall be doubled if more than three feet in
length. Headers receiving more than four tail joists shall have ends supported with
metal joist hangers. Ends of floor joists framing into masonry walls, shall have not
less than four inches bearing and shall have at least 2 1/2 inch bevel or fire cut."
"BY-LAWS 125
9. Studding in bearing partitions shall be at least 2 X 4 inches at 1.6 inch centres.
Partitions shall have placed on top and bottom continuous runners, and they shall be
doubled at all major openings.
10. No stud shall be cut more than half its depth to receive piping and duct work;
if more depth is required the partition studs shall be increased in width.
11. Roof framing, double rafters and trimmers shall be used around all dormers and
other large roof openings, and hip and valley members shall be increased in size as
required to carry the roof load. Size of joists and rafters, at lengths as given in the
National Building Code.
12. The moving of a building shall be construed as a new building.
Interior Finish of Walls and Ceilings
The finish of interior walls and ceilings shall be lath and plaster, fibreboard, plasterboard,
7/16 inches in thickness or better, or 5/16ths"" plywood veneer. In the case of fibreboard
or plasterboard the board shall be applied to furrings or studding placed not more than
16 inch centres.
Interior Plastering
Where the interior walls and ceilings are to be plastered, all plaster shall be at least two
coats work upon wood lath, fibre-board, or plaster base, and three coats if on metal lath,
and shall measure at least % inches in thickness from face of lath. The base or brown
coat shall be used to manufacturer's specifications.
Metal corner beads are required on all vertical external angles and desirable on all
window and arch soffits.
Metal lath shall be twenty-six gauge metal painted or galvanized for inside work.
Exterior Plastering
(Plaster and stucco shall be either run direct on concrete or block surface or on 26 gauge
or better galvanized expanded or other metal or wood lath fastened to wood fun-ings at
least 3/4"" thick at 12 inch centres.
(Plaster or stucco shall be composed of a scratch coat made of one part portland
cement, three parts of sand and sufficient hydrated lime to make workable mortar,
and shall be pressed into the wall to fill the space back of metal lath), and be well
scratched. This coat shall be followed by a base coat of same and left to set for a few
days. The finish coat applied to this surface which must be moistened, shall be made
of portland cement and lime mixture or of approved brand of cement stucco rendering,
coloured if required, having satisfactory water-re-pellant qualities and applied
according to the manufacturer's specifications."
"126 BY-LAWS
Roofing
Sloping roofs shall be covered with shingles and left in thoroughly water-tight condition
by the use of one of the following materials, or equal, or better:-
Slate, tile, wood, metal, asphalt not less than 180 lb. to the square, in colours as desired,
laid to manufacturer's specifications, with ridges and valleys of 26 gauge galvanized iron
or equal.
Flat roofs are required to be covered with a 4-ply coal tar saturated felt roof laid on dTy
felt, properly secured to roof and covered with coal-tar pitch and gravel, laid to
specification of a 10-year guaranteed roof, or any material equal or better.
105 Building Permits
(a) GENERAL A building permit shall be obtained from the Building Inspector by the
owner or his authorized agent for the excavation erection, alteration, reconstruction,
removal or wrecking of, or repairs to, any building or part of any building which it is
proposed to construct, and for any addition or alteration to a building. No such work
shall be commenced until the Building Permit has been obtained and is prominently
displayed on the site of the work.
(b) Application for a Building Permit
The applicant for a building permit shall file with the Building Inspector a signed
statement as to the use or purpose for which such building is intended,
together with duplicate copies of the plans of same drawn to a scale of not
less than one-eighth of an inch to a foot, showing the actual dimensions,
including the dimensions of the lot to be built upon, all structures existing upon the
said lot with the heights and dimensions of same, the heights and dimensions of the
proposed structures, and other such information as may be necessary to provide for the
enforcement of this code.
The applicant for a building permit for a dwelling shall deposit with the Building Inspector
a certified cheque for Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00), or other legal tender, made out
to the Township of Pickering. This cheque shall be deposited with the Township until the
main outside structure, including permanent doors, windows and roof, has been
completed in accordance with the requirements of this By-Law, at which time the funds
will be returned to the applicant.
An applicant for a building permit who desires to live in a garage or other building on the
property during the course of the construction may, if the Building Inspector approves
of the place to be used for temporary living quarters, obtain a temporary permit not
valid for more than six months upon the applicant signing an agreement satisfactory
to the Building Inspector and depositing the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00)
which"
"BY-LAWS 127
is to be a guarantee that the temporary quarters will not be used for living quarters
beyond the six month period and if any building or part of building is so used,
the Building Inspector is entitled to remove any belongings of the applicant and
make such change in the place used as he may deem necessary to prevent its use
for living quarters. If there is any surplus after correcting the condition, such surplus
shall be returned to the applicant. If there is any shortage the applicant shall pay any
such shortage to the Corporation forthwith upon demand.
(c) Granting of Building Permits
The application, plan and specifications filed by an applicant for a building permit
shall be examined by the building inspector, and if it appears to him that such plans
and specifications are in conformity with the requirements of this code and all other
laws or ordinances applicable thereto, the Building Inspector shall issue the Building
Permit upon receipt of the required permit fee.
Neither the granting of a building permit, approval of plans and specifications,
nor inspections made by the Building Inspector during the erection of a structure,
shall in any way relieve the owner, or his agents, from responsibility for the carrying
out of the work in strict accordance with this code, or for the stability of the structure.
The Municipality is not in any way responsible to any person for the inspection or lack
of inspection of any building. The fact that a Building Inspector or other authorized person
has not objected to any work, being done by an owner or other person shall in no way
make the 'Corporation liable for any act or omission on the part of the building inspector
or other person.
(d) Building Permit Limitations
Any building permit issued by the Building Inspector under the provisions of this code
shall expire in twelve (12) months from the date of issue. Building Permits shall be
subject to revocation when construction has been unduly delayed. Such revocation
shall not be rescinded until the plans and incomplete construction are made to comply
with.all the requirements of this code at the time of rescinding such revocation.
Requirements after Issuance of Building Permits,
The Building Inspector may require notice to be given by the Owner,
or his authorized agent, to the Building Inspector of the intention to carry out
any constructional operations in order that inspection may be made at particular
stages of construction.
(e) Alterations to Plans
No person shall erase, alter or modify any drawings or specifications upon which a
building permit has been granted by the Building Inspector, unless the Building
Inspector has agreed to such changes."
"128 BY-LAWS
If, during the progress of the work, it is desired to deviate from the plans filed with the
application for a building permit in any manner, notice of such desired alterations shall
first be made in writing to the Building Inspector, and his written approval shall be
obtained before such alterations shall be commenced.
(f) Occupancy Permits
New Buildings — No building hereafter constructed shall be occupied in any part
thereof until it has been completed according to the requirements of this code,
or until an occupancy permit has been issued by the Building Inspector.
Changes of Occupancy
No change shall be made in the use or occupancy of any building or part thereof until a
permit for the proposed occupancy has been issued by the Building Inspector.
Such occupancy permit shall be issued by the Building Inspector, if it is found that the
building complies -with the provisions of this code for the proposed occupancy, or,
in the case of an existing building, if the conditions prescribed in Clause 109-^
Non-conforming Buildings—are fulfilled.
106 Dangerous Buildings
Whenever, in the opinion of the Building Inspector, any building or part thereof, is,
by reason of its dilapidated state, i'auity construction, or otherwise, in an unsafe
condition as regards danger from fire or risk of accident, the Building Inspector may
give to the Owner of such building, or his agent, notice in writing specifying wherein
such unsafe condition exists, and upon receipt of such notice the said owner,
or his agent, shall forthwith put such building, or part thereof, in a safe condition or
demolish same
When, in the opinion of the Building Inspector, any building, or part thereof,
is in such condition that immediate precautionary measures must be taken in
order to avert an accident, the Building Inspector may pull down, repair or renew
any such building, or part thereof, at the expense of the owner, whether or not notice
has first been given to such owner or his agent, and such expense may be recovered
from such owner by action or may be recovered in like manner as Municipal taxes.
107 Enforcements
(a) Enforcement of Provisions of Code
Without prejudice to the operation of any other law, it shall be the duty of the Building
Inspector to take the necessary measures to institute proceedings against any person
who contravenes any of the provisions of this code."
"BY-LAWS 129
(b) Offences and Penalties
Everyone who contravenes any of the provisions of this code or any requirements or
obligations imposed on him by virtue of this code, or who interferes with or obstructs
any person in the discharge of his duties under this code, shall foe guilty of an offence
and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars ($50.00) and costs.
In the event of any person failing to carry out the requirements or obligations imposed on
him by virtue of the provisions of this code, and if such requirements or obligations are
not complied with in accordance with an order made by the Building Inspector,
under the provisions of this code, the Building Inspector may, where he deems it
necessary and advisable, enter upon the premises in respect of which an order has
been made and carry out, at the expense of the responsible person, the requirements
or obligations referred to in the said order, and the expense, if not paid on demand,
may be recovered with costs in a Court of competent jurisdiction, or it may be
recovered in the same manner as a debt due for municipal taxes on the land where
the expense was incurred.
108 Permit Fees
Fees as prescribed herein shall be paid to the Building Inspector before a Building
Permit will be granted:
(a) New founding, or re-erection of old building on new site, other than accessory
building, cost not exceeding $4,000.00
$ 5.00
For each additional $1,000.00 or major portion thereof 1.00
(b) Accessory Building, other than a private garage not over
250 square feet in area 1.00
(c) Accessory Building, otlier than a private garage over 250 square feet in area,
cost not exceeding $2,000.00 3.00
Each additional $1,000.00, or major portion thereof 1.00
(d) Private Garages, detached or attached, per each car accommodation 1.00
(e) Demolition or removal of any building 1.00
(f) Alterations and repairs not exceeding $1,000.00 2.00
Each additional $500.00 or major portion thereof 1.00
Occupancy Permit Fees
Fees as prescribed herein shall be paid to the Building Inspector before an
occupancy permit will be granted :-
(a) Permit to occupy a dwelling prior to its completion
(See 105 (f) ............................................................................. 1.00
(b) Change of Occupancy, if no Building Permit is required 2.00"
"130 BY-LAWS
109 Application
New Buildings
No Building, or any part of any building, shall hereafter be constructed except in
conformity with the provisions of this code. The re-erection of an existing building on a
new site shall be deemed to be an erection of a new building.
Building Permits Issued Prior to Adoption of This Code
Any building in course of construction at the date of enactment of this code, may be
completed according to the requirements at the time of the issue of the permit for such
uncompleted buildings.
Alterations, additions, repairs and Changes of Use or Occupancy General
Except as provided in the following item ""Non-conforming Buildings"", all alterations,
additions, repairs, made hereafter whether to existing buildings or to buildings hereafter
erected shall conform to the requirements of this code.
Non-Conforming Buildings
The following provisions shall apply when alterations, additions, repairs or changes of
use or occupancy are made to existing buildings which for any reason whatsoever do
not conform to the requirements of this code.
(a) Changed Use
If the existing use or occupancy of an existing building is changed to a use or occupancy
which would not be permitted in a similar building hereafter erected, which includes the
use of a summer cottage for an all-year-round dwelling, the entire building shall be made
to conform with the requirements given herein for new buildings, unless the Council in
special cases otherwise permits.
(b) Increases in Height
The number of storeys in an existing building shall not be increased unless the building
and all existing or proposed additions and alterations are made to comply with all the
requirements of this code and a permit obtained in the manner provided by this code.
(c) Structural Alterations and Repairs
Where any alteration or repair is made to the structural portion of any building,
such structural portion or such part thereof as may be deemed necessary by the
Building Inspector shall conform to the requirements of this code for new buildings.
Accessory Buildings Exempted
This code shall not apply to accessory buildings used solely in the pursuit of farming or
market gardening on a parcel of land having an area of not less than five (5) acres."
"BY-LAWS 131
(d) Continuous Foundation Wall
All dwellings shall have a continuous foundation wall supporting the main outside wall of
the structure, and such foundation wall shall be placed on adequate footings in
accordance with the requirements of the National Building Code.
110 Structural Requirements
For the guidance of applicants for building permits, the following numbers are taken
out of the National Research Council of Canada, National Building Code No. 1068:
Wood Framing Lumber - See No. 601, N. B. C.
Plank Construction - See No. 620, N. B. C.
Concrete Construction - See No. 616, N. B. C.
Wall, Construction, Wood, See No. 617, N. B. C.
Joist lengths and sizes, Appendix E. 2, etc.
Plumbing facilities, See No. 405, N. B. C.
Depth of Foundations, See No. 605, N. B. C.
Foundation Walls Materials, See No. 609, N. B. C.
111
By-Law No. VT7& is hereby repealed and any other By-fLaw which is contrary to the
provisions of this By-Law shall be repealed in so far as may be necessary to give full
effect to this By-Law.
BY-LAW read a First and Second time this 2nd day of June, 1954 BY-LAW read a
Third time and PASSED this 2nd day of June, 1954
""GEORGE T. TODD"" Reeve
""L. T. JOHNSTON"" Clerk"
"132 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 2018
of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering, being a By-Law to amend the statutory
By-Law which, in accordance with the provisions of Section 131 of the Public Health Act,
R.S.O. 1950, Chapter 306, is in force in every municipality.
WHEREAS by Section 131 of The Public Health Act, the Council of every municipality in
which the statutory By-Law is in force is permitted to amend the said (By-Law so as to
conform with the requirements of the municipality of the Township of Pickering or to meet
such special circumstances as in the opinion the Department of Health may warrant such
amendment;
AND WHEREAS it is expedient and necessary to regulate the construction, extension,
alteration and operation of private sewage disposal systems within the Township of
Pickering;
AND WHEREAS the Department has permitted the Council of the said Township to
amend the said statutory By-Law and has granted its approval of this amending By-Law,
dated the 8th day of November, A.D. 1954;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ENACTED AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED as a By-Law of
The Corporation of the Township of Pickering by the Council thereof as follows:
1. That Section 14 of the statutory By-Law is amended by adding thereto the
following:
14.1 Subject to the foregoing without limiting the generality of the same in
any way
(i) ""building"" as hereinafter used shall mean and include any building or structure from
which sewage may be discharged.
(ii) ""lot"" as hereinafter used shall mean and include any par. eel of land on which any
building or structure may be erected or standing.
(iii) ""permit"" as hereinafter used shall mean the approval in writing of the Medical
Officer of Health of the Township of Pickering.
(iv) ""septic tank system"" as hereinafter used shall mean and include any one or more
of the following: septic tank, tile disposal bed, cess pool, grease trap or sewage
reservoir and shall be hereinafter called ""system."""
"BY-LAWS 133
(v) ""sewage"" as used herein shall mean and include solid and liquid excreta
(animal or human) domestic waste water, industrial waste or other liquid wastes.
14.2 No permit shall be issued by the said Medical Officer of Health for the
installation or alteration of any system save and until the applicant
(a) has filed a written application therefor at the Township of Pickering Municipal
Office at Brougham, Ontario, on the form provided by the Medical Officer of Health
and has paid the prescribed fee and
(b) has filed with said application a block plan of the lot showing thereon the location
of any existing well or wells, any physical characteristics of the land, the location and
dimensions of the building or structure to be erected thereon and the proposed location
and layout of the system, with particular reference to the following:
(i) width and length of lot and width and length of building,
(ii) distance of building from lot lines,
(iii) location of any existing wells.
(iv) any marked difference of elevation within the lot.
(v) the location of the proposed septic tank and the layout of the weeping tile beds
(this shall be shown in full detail and drawn to scale)
(vi) a separate block plan for each house shall be submitted. Any plans not drawn to
scale, or badly drawn shall be rejected without further consideration.
14.3 Such application aforesaid together with the accompanying information and
plan shall be submitted to the Medical Officer of Health at least fifteen (15) days prior to
the commencement of any construction of any system on the said lot.
14.4 Establishment of a system aforesaid for which a permit has been applied shall
comply with all conditions and specifications relating thereto of the said Medical Officer
of Health i£or the Township of Pickering as hereinafter set out and no system shall be
hereafter installed without such permit, provided however, that any person constructing
a system not in compliance with these conditions and specifications must alter such
system to comply therewith on the order of the Medical officer of Health and within the
time set by the Medical Officer of Health.
14.5 No system shall be installed, altered or repaired to service any building built
or to be built or enlarged on a street served by a sanitary sewer.
14.6 Grading shall be carried out as follows:
(i) all grading and levelling of the lot shall be completed prior to the laying of the tile beds."
"134 BY-LAWS
(ii) where any grading or levelling on the lot has been done and top soil removed
therefrom, suitable replacement of such soil shall be made where necessary in
accordance with the requirements of the Medical Officer of Health.
14.7 (i) steel septic tanks may be used subject to the approval of
the Medical Officer of Health and must be of six feet in length or more by four feet in
diameter or more, to be constructed of fourteen gauge steel and have two compartments,
the first compartment to be four feet in length and fitted with a ten inch baffle at the inlet
and a sixteen inch baffle at the outlet, the second compartment to be two feet in length
and to be fitted with a fourteen inch baffle at the outlet. The entire tank to be tarred
inside and outside with a preservative coating of asphalt or other lasting material as
might be approved by the Medical Officer of Health. Fourteen inch manholes shall be
provided for each compartment and all seams shall be electrically welded.
(ii) concrete septic tanks shall be constructed according to plans and specifications
approved by the Medical Officer of Health.
14.8 The following dwellings require special septic tanks as approved by the
Medical officer of Health:
(i) single family dwellings with more than three bedrooms
(ii) multiple family dwellings
(iii) apartment buildings
(iv) stores with or without attached living quarters or any
apartment above the store or stores.
(v) commercial buildings
(vi) industrial buildings
(vii) schools and all public buildings
The specifications of any special tank shall be determined by the Medical Officer of
Health.
14.9 The tank shall be located as follows:
(i) the outer surface of the tank shall be located at least five feet from the wall of any
building and at least five feet from any lot line.
(ii) the floors and walls of both chambers shall be treated in such a manner as will
render them watertight.
(iii) all iron to iron fittings shall be packed with oakum and caulked with lead.
(iv) no tank shall bear on filled ground. If it is proposed to install a tank on disturbed
soil, all measures shall be taken to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health to
ensure freedom from settling of the tank.
14.10 The tank outlet pipe shall be as follows :
The outlet pipe from the septic tank to the header shall be of"
"BY-LAWS 135
four inches glazed tile with cemented joints or other material and joints as may be
approved from time to time by the Medical Officer of Health. The header shall be of at
least four inches glazed tile with cemented joints or other approved material and joints
with the first weeping tile of each lateral cemented into the ""T"" branch serving that
lateral or joined in other approved manner.
14.11 The standard tile bed shall be as follows:
The disposal bed shall consist of three hundred feet of weeping tile for a five room house
with proportionately more weeping tile for larger homes, apartment buildings, duplexes,
industries, schools, etc., as prescribed by the Medical Officer of Health. The weeping tile
shall be laid in sixteen inch trenches. The tiles shall be laid on a bed of three-quarter inch
stone or screened gravel to a depth of twelve inches and the full width of the trench,
with six inches of three-quarter inch stone or screened gravel covering the top of the tile,
unless, otherwise approved by the Medical Officer of Health. The weeping tile must not
be laid any deeper than twenty-four inches from the centre of the tile to the finished grade
of the ground and at least twelve inches of sandy loam fill shall be provided over the six
inches of stone which cover the tile. The trenches shall be laid three feet apart and the
fall or grade of the lines of tile shall not exceed two inches per one hundred feet.
No tile may be closer than ten feet to any building foundation or closer than four feet to
any lot line.
14.12 Rubbish or clay
Cinders, ashes or any other rubbish, such as lumber, paint cans or any other debris
shall not be placed in the weeping tile bed nor shall any clay fill be introduced into the
weeping tile area.
14.13 Roof water
No person shall permit or cause to be permitted any roof water to be discharged into
the area where the septic tank, sump and 'weeping tile beds are located.
The builder or owner of the premises, shall make provision for the roof water to be
carried to the ditch on the roadway in accordance with the established practice and
to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health.
14.14 Soapy water
No person may deposit or permit to be deposited on the ground or in an open ditch or
street ditch any soapy or laundry or kitchen sink water.
14.15 Distance between well and septic tank.
No septic tank shall be constructed within fifty feet of any existing well.
No tile disposal bed shall be located within fifty feet of any domestic water supply
unless otherwise approved by the"
"136 BY-LAWS
Medical Officer of Health.
14.16 No person under any circumstances may use, or permit to be used any system,
before such system has been duly completed and inspected, and until such system has
been approved by the Medical Officer of Health.
14.17 First Inspection
A system shall deemed to be ready for a first inspection when:
(a) the floor and walls of each compartment of the septic tank have been made
waterproof.
(b) both chambers of the septic tank have been filled with water and left under test
for a period of at least twenty-four hours.
(c) manhole covers are in place and all lead joints caulked.
(d) all tile and stone or gravel are in place, trenches open, and all glazed tile and
joints exposed.
14.18 Second Inspection
The constructor, contractor or owner shall make the system ready for second
inspection within ten days of the first inspection. No system shall be deemed ready
for second inspection until the constructor, contractor or owner supplies and places
six inches of three-quarter stone or screened gravel over the tiles and places over
the top stone sandy loam fill bo as to ensure that the trenches have been filled with at
least twelve inches of said fill.
14.19 Cleaning Tank
No -person shall empty or cause to be emptied any septic tank in such a way that the
effluent therefrom is deposited on the top of the ground.
14.20' The scale of fees to be paid to the said Medical Officer of Health for permits
for septic tank system installation and inspection shall be as follows:
For each septic tank system permit, which permit shall only be valid for six months
from the date of issue, the fee of $2.00. For each septic tank system inspection made
by the Medical Officer of Health or his agent, the Sanitary Inspector $5.00.
14.21 Any person who violates the provisions of this By-Law shall for every offence
incur a penalty of not more than $50.00 and such penalty shall be recoverable under
the provisions of The Summary Convictions Act, E. S. O. 1950, chapter 379 and
amendments thereto.
14.22 Any By-Law or By-Laws inconsistent with the provisions of this By-Law shall
be and the same are hereby repealed.
BY-LAW read a first and second time this 14th day of June, A. D. 1954
BY-LAW read a third time and finally passed this 14th day of June, 1954.
""George T. Todd"" Reeve
""L. T. Johnston"" Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 137
BY-LAW NUMBER 2020
of THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
Being a by-law to amend By-Law Number 2006, which is a By-Law of the Corporation
of the Township of Pickering to amend By-Law Number 1787.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ENACTED AMD IT IS HEREBY ENACTED as a by-law of
The Corporation of the Township of Picfc-cring by the Council thereof as follows:
1. That By-Law Number 2006 be amended by adding to section 1 thereof the
following sentence:
""Provided, however, that this section shall not apply to that portion of the Township of
Pickering to which By-Law Number 1978 is applicable, namely, that portion of said
Township lying west of the Rouge River as more particularly described in Shed-ules
""A"" and ""SB"" to said By-Law Number 1978"".
so that section 1 shall read as follows:
No person shall hereafter within the Township of Pickering erect any dwelling house or
summer cottage, if, of one storey in height, having a ground floor area of less than nine
hundred and sixty (9'6O) square feet and, if, of one storey and one-half in height, having a
ground floor area of less than seven hundred and fifty (760) square feet, and, if of two
stories in height or more, having a ground floor area of less than six hundred and fifty
(650) square feet, and in each instance the floor area shall be measured within the
outside walls or outside finished furred partitions thereof and shall not include garages,
either attached or otherwise, porches, terraces, breeze-ways or any other appurtenant
structure or lean-to which is not an integral part of the main habitable structure.
Provided, however, that this section shall not apply to that portion of the Township of
Pickering to which By-Law Number 1978 is applicable, namely, that portion of said
Township lying west of the Rouge River as more particularly described in Schedules
""A"" and ""B"" to said By-Law Number 1976.
2. That By-Law Number 20O8 be further amended by striking out section 2.
3. This amending by-law shall take effect from and after its approval by the Ontario
Municipal Board and the issue of its formal order therefor.
BY-LAW read a first time this 14th day of June, 1954
BY-LAW read a second time this 14th day of June, 1954
BY-LAW read a third time and finally passed this 14th day of June, 1954.
""George T. Todd"" Reeve ""L. T. Johnston"" Clerk"
"138 BY-LAWS
BY-LAW NUMBER 2023
A By-Law of the Municipality of the Township of Pickering to repeal By-Law Number
2015 and amend By-Law Number 1967 relative to polling subdivisions.
BE IT ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering that:
1. By-Law Number 2015 re-allocating the various Polling Subdivisions be repealed.
2. Clause 4 of By-Law Number 1967 reading ""All the lots numbered 30 to 35
inclusive which lie east of the Eouge River from Lake Ontario to the Second Concession
Line, save and except Lots numbered 30 and 31, which lie north of No. 2 Highway to the
Second Concession Line"" be repealed and the following substituted therefor:
""All the lots numbered 30 to 35 inclusive which lie east of the Rouge River from Lake
Ontario to the No. 2 Highway"", and same shall be numbered Polling Subdivision No. 4,
AND ""All the lots numbered 32 to 35 inclusive which lie east of the Rouge River from
No. 2 Highway to the Second Concession Line"" and same shall be numbered Polling
Subdivision Number 4 (1).
BY-iLAW read a First and Second time this 30th day of June, 1954 BY-LAW read a
Third time and PASSED this 30th day of June, 1954
""George T. Todd"" Reeve
""L. T. Johnston"" Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 139
BY-LAW NUMBER 2038
A By-Law of the Municipal Corporation of the Township of Pickering to
regulate hunting in the Township of Pickering.
WHEREAS Section 77 (g) of the Game and Fisheries Act, R. S. O., 1950, Ch. 153,
provides that the Lieutenant-Governor-in-ICouncil may make regulations authorizing the
Townships to issue and charge fees for licenses to hunt, during the open season,
pheasants, rabbits, and foxes within such townships and to limit the number of such
licenses; AND WHEREAS such authority has been conveyed by the
Lieutenant-Governor-In-Council to the Township of Pickering;
THEREFORE the Municipal Corporation of the Township of Pickering
ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. THAT the business of this regulated area to be operated by a Commission;
2. THAT the Commission be composed of the sitting members of the Municipal
'Council of the Township of Pickering and six outside appointed members;
3. THAT such outside appointed members to hold office for a term of five years,
and may be re-appointed at the end of the term;
4. THAT the Commission may delegate one of their appointed members to act as
Secretary-Treasurer and shall elect one of their appointed members to act as Chairman
and one to act as Vice-Chairman.
5. THAT the Secretary-Treasurer of the Commission and his assistants shall issue
the license for the hunting of pheasants, rabbits, hares and foxes, and shall collect the
fees for the same;
6. THAT the fee shall be Two Dollars ($2.00) for any
(a) Person not residing in the Township of Pickering for any license valid during the
pheasant hunting season, and One Dollar ($1.00) thereafter, and Twenty-Five
Cents (25c) for any person residing in the Township of Pickering.
(b) An additional fee not to exceed One Dollar ($1.00) for non-residents and Seventy-
Five Cents (75c) for residents may be charged if any expenses have been incurred by
the Commission beyond the ordinary costs of releasing pheasants."
"140 BY-LAWS
7. THAT the licenses issued by the Commission in any one season shall not
exceed 450 for non-residents, with no limit on residents.
8. THAT the monies collected through the sale of licenses shall be the property of
the Game Commission and shall be used by it to pay their operating expenses and lor
the purposes of re-stocking and fox bounty.
9. THAT licenses issued by other regulated Townships in Ontario County shall be
recognized by this Township, but only after the pheasant hunting season, and providing
they have a hunting By-Law.
BY-LAW read a First and Second time this 30th day of August, 1964 BY-LAW read a
Third time and PASSED this 30th day of August, 1954
""George T. Todd"" Reeve
""L. T. Johnston"" Clerk"
"BY-LAWS 141
BY-LAW NUMBER 2039
A By-Law of the Municipality of the Township of Pickering to regulate the
keeping of swine in a defined portion of the Township of Pickering.
HE IT ENACTED by the Municipal Council of the Township of Pickering:
1. That the following area of the Township of Pickering is hereby defined as an
area to which this By-Law shall apply, namely:
(a) All the lots numbered 1 to 35 inclusive in Ranges 1, 2, 3, Concession 1, and south
half of Concession 2, excepting the Improvement District of Ajax, the Village of Pickering,
and the south half of Lot 17, Concession 1 N1/2 Lot 29 Con. 1.
(b) The following areas comprising various Villages and Hamlets, and the
immediate areas:
(1) Whitevale-south half Lots 28, 29 and 30, Concession 5. north half Lots 28, 29 and 30,
Concession 4.
(2) Chcrrywood-south half Lots 30 and 31, Concession 3 north half Lots 30 and 31,
Concession 2
(3) Green (River-south half Lots 33, 34 and 35, Concession 6
north half Lots 38, 34 and 35, Concession 5
(4) Brougham-south half Lots 18, 19 and 20, Concession 6
north half Lots 18, 19, and 20, Concession 5
(5) Greenwood-south half Lots 10, 11, 12, Concession 6
north half Lots 10, 11, 12, Concession 5
(6) Claremount-All lots 17, 18 and 19, Concession 9.
north half Lots 17, 18 and 19, Concession 8.
(7) That area which abuts Highway No. 7 and the Brock Road (between lots 18 and 19)
for a depth of 1,000 feet, save and except the south half of Lot 18, Concession 3.
2. No person shall keep any swine in the said defined area except in compliance
with the following regulations, namely:"
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(a) No swine shall be fed any garbage or meat or scraps, kitchen, vegetable or other
waste food whether raw or cooked, which has been obtained elsewhere than on the
premises where fed, or from any hotel or restaurant.
(b) No garbage or waste shall be cooked on any premises in the said defined areas
for the purpose of feeding it to swine.
3. Any person convicted of a breach of any of the provisions of this By-Law shall forfeit
and pay at the discretion of the Convicting Magistrate, a penalty not exceeding the sum
of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for each offence, exclusive of costs.
BY-LAW read a First and Second time this 30th day of August, 1954 BY-LAW read a
Third time and PASSED this 30th day of August, 1954
""George T: Todd"" Reeve
""L. T. Johnston"" Clerk
I, Lloyd T. Johnston, Clerk of the Township of Pickering, do hereby certify that the
foregoing is a true and correct copy of By-Law No. 2089 passed by the Municipal
Council of the Township of Pickering on the 30th day of August, 1954. CERTIFIED
this 8th day of September, 1954."
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Acts Respecting Municipal Institutions
The Protection of Live Stock
7. In this part, — ""injured"" and ""injuring"" shall apply to injuries caused by
wounding, worrying, terrifying or pursuing.
1950, c 107 S. 8.
8. Any person may kill any dog,—
(a) which is found killing or injuring sheep; or
(b) which in a township or village is found between sunset and sunrise straying
from the premises where the dog is habitually kept; or
(c) which is found straying at any time, and not under (proper control,
upon premises where sheep are habitually kept.
1930, c. 107 S. 9.
9. (1) Whether the owner of any dog killing or injuring sheep is known or not the
municipality in which the sheep were killed or injured shall be liable to the owner of the
sheep for the amount of damage ascertained by the sheep valuer or arbitrator as
hereinafter provided and shall pay over such amount to the owner within thirty days after
such owner has filed with the clerk an affidavit that to the best of his knowledge and
belief the sheep were killed or injured by a dog but not by a dog owned by him.
(2) The Municipality shall not be liable under subsection 1. if at the time the sheep were
killed or injured they were running at large upon the highway or unenclosed land.
Provided that the Council of a township in unorganized territory may with the assent
of the Municipal electors pass a by-law declaring that this subsection shall not apply in
determining its liability. 1950, - 107 - 10-3
10.—(1) The council of every local municipality shall appoint one or more competent
persons as sheep valuers.
02) Within forty-eight hours after it is discovered by the owner that his sheep has been
killed or injured he shall notify a sheep valuer or the clerk of the municipality who shall
forthwith notify a sheep valuer and the valuer so notified shall immediately make full
investigation and shall make his report in writing within ten days thereafter, to the clerk
of the municipalty, giving in detail the extent and amount of the damage done, and he
shall at the same time forward a copy of such report to the owner of the sheep.
(3) The carcass of the sheep shall not be destroyed until it has been seen by the valuer."
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(4) When the owner of the sheep, or the council, is dissatisfied with the report of
the valuer an appeal may be had! to the Minister of Agriculture who may name an
arbitrator to make a further investigation and the award of the arbitrator
shall be final and conclusive as to the amount of the damage done.
(5) Such appeal shall be made within thirty days after the making of the report by the
valuer and $25.00 shall be deposited with the Minister at the time of the appeal to be
forfeited if the report of the valuer is sustained.
LIABILITY OF OWNER OF DOG
11.—(1) A municipality having paid to the owner of the sheep the amount of the damage
ascertained as above provided shall be entitled to recover the amount so paid from the
owner of the dog in any court of competent jurisdiction without proving that it was vicious
or accustomed to worry sheep.
(2) In order to ascertain the owner of the dog which killed or injured the sheep the clerk
on the instructions of the head of the municipality may issue a subpoena calling
any persons to attend before the council and the member of the council presiding may
administer an oath to such persons and any member of the council may examine such
persons touching his knowledge of the matter.
(3) When it appears that the damage was caused by more dogs than one, the court may
apportion the damages as may be deemed) just, having regard to the strength, ferocity
and character of the dogs concerned.
(4) Where a dog is known to have killed or injured sheep the owner on being duly notified
shall within forty-eight hours cause the dog to be killed.
(5) When the owner refuses or neglects to kill the dog he may be summoned before any
police magistrate who may order that the dog be killed and in such a case a constable
may enter upon the premises of the owner and may kill the dog.
(6) The magistrate may direct the owner to pay the costs of the proceedings and of the
destruction of the dog and if he deems the neglect or refusal of the owner to have
been unreasonable may impose on him a penalty not exceeding $10.00. 1950,
c, 1017-13-6."
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CHAPTER 315
THE LINE FENCES ACT
1.— In this Act,
(a) ""Judge"" shall mean judge of the county or district court;
(b) ""Occupied lands"" shall not include so much of a lot as is unenclosed,
although a part of it is enclosed and in actual use and occupation.
(2) Where, within the meaning of section 3, there is a dispute between owners or
occupants of lands situate in different local municipalities,
(a) ""Fence-viewers"" shall mean two fence-viewers of the municipality in which is
situate the land of the owner one fence-viewer of the municipality in which is situate or
occupant notified under clause (a) of section 3, and the land of the person giving the
notice; except that in case of a disagreement within the meaning of clause (d) of that
section ""Fence-viewers"" shall mean fence-viewers from either or both municipalities;
(b) ""In which the land is situate"" and ""in which the land lies"" shall mean in which
situate the land of the owner or occupant so notified under clause (a) of section 3.
R, S. O. 1914, c, 259, s, 2.
(3) The provisions of this Act mutaiis mutandis shall apply to unoccupied land as
well as occupied land in any township in a county or district if the council of such
township passes a by-law declaring that the provisions of this Act shall so apply,
and if such by-law is passed it shall be the duty of the clerk of the township to send
forthwith a true copy of it to the Director of the Bureau of Municipal Affiairs. 1S21-,
c, 88', s. 1; 1922, c. 96, s. 1.
2.—(1) Owners of adjourning occupied lands shall make keep up, andi repair a just
proportion of the fence which marks the boundary between them, or if there is no fence
they shall make and keep up and repair the same proportion of a fence to mark such
boundary.
(2) Owners of unoccupied land which adjoins occupied land upon such unoccupied
land becoming occupied, shall be liable to keep up and repair such proportion,
and in that respect shall be in the same position as if their land had been occupied
at the time of the original fencing, and shall be liable to the compulsory proceedings
hereinafter mentioned. R. S. O. 1914, c, 259, s. 3."
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3. Where an owner of land desires fence-viewers to view and arbitrate as to what
portion of such fence each owner shall make, keep up and repair, or as to the condition
of an existing line fence and as to repairs being done to the same,
(a) Either owner may notify, Form 1, the other owner or the occupant of the land of
such other owner that he will, on a day named, not less than one week from the
service of such notice, cause three fence-viewers of the locality to arbitrate in the
premises;
(b) The owner so notifying shall also notify, Form 2, the fence-viewers not less than
one week before their services are required;
(c) The notices in both cases shall be in writing signed by the persons notifying,
and shall specify the time and place of meeting for the arbitration, and the notice to an
owner may be served by leaving the same at the place of abode of such owner or
occupant with some grown-up person residing thereat; or, in case of the land being
untenanted, by leaving the notice with any agent of such owner;
(d) An owner notified may, within the week, object to any or all the fence-viewers
notified, and in case of disagreement the judge shall name the fence-viewers
who are to arbitrate. R.S. O. 1914, c, 259, s. 4.
4. An occupant who is not the owner so notified shall immediately notify the owner,
and if he neglects so to do shall be liable for all damage caused to the owner by such
neglect. R. S. O. 1914, C, 269, s. 5.
5. The fence-viewers shall examine the premises, and if required by either
party shall hear evidence, and may examine the parties and witnesses on oath.
R. S. O. 1914, c, 259, s. 6.
6.—The fence-viewers shall make an award, Form 3, signed by any two of them
respecting the matters in dispute, and the award shall specify the locality, quantity,
description and the lowest price of the fence awarded to be made and the time
within which the work shall be done, and shall state by which of the parties or in what
proportion the costs of the proceedings shall be paid.
(2) In making the award the fence-viewers shall have regard to the nature
of the fences in use in the locality, the pecuriary circumstances of the parties and
the suitableness of the fence to the wants of each of them.
(3) Where, from the formation of the ground by reason of streams or other causes,
it is, in the opinion of the fence-viewers, impracticable to locate the fence upon the
line between"
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the lands of the parties, they may locate it either wholly or partly on the land of either of
the parties where it seems to be most convenient; but such location shall not in any way
affect the title to the land.
(4) The fence-viewers may employ an Ontario land sur-veyer and have the locality
described by metes and bounds. R. S. O. 1914, c, 2-59, s. 7.
7. The award shall be deposited in the office of the clerk of the municipality in
which the land of the owner who initiated the proceedings is situate, and may be
proved by a copy certified by the clerk; and notice in writing of its being made shall
be given by the clerk to all parties interested. R. S. O. 1914, c. 299, s. 9.
8. The judge may, on application of either party, extend the time for making the fence
as he may deem just. R.S.O. 1914, c. 259, s. 9.
9.—(1) The party desiring to enforce the award shall serve upon the owner or occupant
pf the adjoining land a notice in writing requiring him to obey the award, and if it is not
obeyed within one month after service of the notice may do the work which the award
directs, and may immediately take proceedings to recover its value and the costs from
the owner by action in the division court of any division in which any part of the land
affected by the award is situate.
(2) Instead of requiring execution to be issued upon the judgment so recovered the
party entitled to enforce the same may obtain a certificate from the clerk of the division
court of the amount due for debt and costs in respect of such judgment, and shall be
entitled, upon lodging the same with the clerk of the municipality, to have the amount so
certified placed upon the collector's roll, and the same may be collected in the same
manner as taxes are collected, and shall until so collected or otherwise paid be a charge
upon the land liable for the payment thereof, and in such case execution shall not
thereafter issue on such judgment. R. S. O. 1914, c, 259, s. 10.
10.—(1) The award may be registered in the proper registry or land titles office and
when registered shall be a charge upon the land affected by it.
(2) Registration may be by deposit of a duplicate of the award or of a copy, verified by
affidavit, together with an affidavit of the execution of the award. R.S.O. 1914, c, 259, s.
.
11.—(1) Any person dissatisfied with the award may appeal therefrom to the judge.
(2) The appellant shall, within one week from the time when he was notified of the
award, serve upon the fence-viewers and all parties interested a notice in writing of
his intention to appeal, and the notice may be served as other notices mentioned in
this Act."
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(3) The appellant shall also deliver a copy of the notice to the clerk of the division court of
the division in which the land lies, and the clerk shall immediately notify- the judge otf such
appeal; and the judge shall fix a time and place for the hearing of the appeal and shall
communicate the same to the clerk, and!, if he thinks fit, may order such sum of money
to be paid by the appellant to the clerk as will be a sufficient indemnity against the costs
of the appeal.
(4) The clerk shall notify the fence-viewers and all parties interested of the time and place
of hearing, in the manner hereinbefore provided for the service of other notices under this
Act.
(5) The judge shall hear and determine the appeal and may set aside, alter or affirm
the award, or correct any error therein, and may examine the parties and their
witnesses on oath, and may inspect the premises; and may order payment of costs by
either party and fix the amount of such costs.
(6) The decision of the judge shall be final; and the award, as altered or affirmed,
shall be dealt with in all respects as it would have been if it had not been appealed
from.
(7) The practice and procedure on the appeal, including the fees payable for subpoenas
and the conduct money of witnesses, shall be the same, as nearly as may be, as in the
case of a suit in the division court.
(8) Where the award affects land in two or more counties or districts the appeal may be
to the judge of the county or district court of the county or district in which any part of the
land is situate. R. S. O. 1914, c, 259. s. 12.
12.—(1) Each fence-viewer shall be entitled to $2.00! or such larger amount,
not exceeding $5.00, as the council may by by-law fix for every day's work under this Act,
and an Ontario land surveyor and a witness shall be entitled to the same compensation
as if subpoenaed in a division court. R. S. O. 1914, c, 259, s. 13 (1); 1027, c, 84, s. 2.
(2) The corporation f»f the municipality shall, at the expiration of the time for appeal or
after appeal as the case may be, pay to the fence-viewers their fees, and shall, unless
the same be forthwith repaid by the person adjudged to pay the same, place the
amount upon the collector's roll as a charge against such person, and the same may be
collected in the same manner as municipal taxes. R.S. O. 1914, c, 259, s. 13, (2).
13.—(1) If the judge inspects the premises or hears the appeal at a place other than
the county or district town he shall be entitled to be paid the actual expenses incuirred
by him and, in the order setting aside, altering or affirming the award, shall fix the
amount of such expenses and name the person by whom the same shall be paid."
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(2) The judge shall foe paid 'by the corporation of the municipality the amount so fixed,
and the same shall be collected in the same manner as is provided in respect to the
fence-viewers fees. R. S.O. 1914, c, 250, s. 14.
14. Any agreement in writing Form 4 between owners respecting a line fence may toe
filed or registered and enforced as if it was an award of fence-viewers. R.S.O. 1914, c,
259, s. 15.
15.—(1) The owner of the whole or part of a line fence which forms part of the fence
enclosing the occupied or improved land of another person shall not take down or
remove any part of such fence,
(a) Without giving at least six months previous notice of his intention to the owner or
occupant of such adjacent enclosure unless such last mentioned owner or occup-pant
after demand made upon him in writing by the owner of such fence, refuses to pay
therefor the sum determined as provided by section 6; or
(b) If such owner or occupant will pay to the owner of such fence or part thereof such
sum as the fence-viewers may award to be paid therefor under section 6.
(2) The .provisions of this Act for determining disputes between the owners of adjoining
occupied lands, the manner of enforcing awards and appeals therefrom and the forms
and all other provisions of this Act, so far as applicable, shall apply to proceedings under
this section. R. S. O. 1914, c, 259. s. 16.
16.—(1) If any tree is thrown down by accident or otherwise across a line fence, or in any
way in and upon the land adjoining that upon which such tree stood, causing damage to
the crop upon such land or Jo such fence, the owner or occupant of the land on which
such tree stood shall remove the same forthwith, and also forthwith repair the fence and
otherwise maike good any damage caused by the falling of the tree.
(2) On his neglect or refusal so to do for 48 hours after notice in writing to remove the
tree the injured person may remove the same in the most convenient and inexpensive
manner, and may make good the fence so damaged, and may retain such tree to
remunerate him for such removal, and may also recover any further amount of damages
beyond the value of such tree from the person liable to pay it.
(3) For the purpose of such removal the owner of the tree may enter into and upon
such adjoining land doing no unnecessary spoil or waste.
(4) All questions arising under this section shall be adjusted by the three
fence-viewers of the municipality, the decision of any two of whom shall be
binding upon the parties. R. S. O. 1914, c. 25'9, s. 17."
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THE PLANNING BOARD
The Pickering-Whiiby Townships Joint Planning Board
In accordance with the Provisions of The Planning Act the Minister of Planning and
Development for the Province of Ontario, upon Application of the Councils of the
Townships of Pickering and Whitby, denned and named said Townships a planning
area in 1948.
Composition of Board
The Planning Board is a body corporate by the name of The Picfcering-Whitby
Townships Joint Planning Board and is composed of the following members who
served without remuneration:
The Reeve of Pickering Township, an ex-officio member.
One member from each Township Council appointed annually.
Three members from each municipality appointed by their respective Councils for a
term of three years.
Duties of Planning Board
The Planning Board shall investigate and survey the physical, social and economic
conditions in relation to the development of the planning area and perform such other
duties of a planning nature as may be referred to it by the council, and .without limiting
the generality of the foregoing it shall,
(a) prepare maps, drawings, texts, statistical information and
all other material necessary for the study, explanation and solution of problems or
matters affecting the development of the planning area;
(b) hold public meetings and publish information for the purpose of obtaining the
participation and co-operation of the inhabitants of the planning area in determining
the solution of problems of matters affecting the development of the planning area;
(c) consult with any local board having jurisdiction within
the planning area;
(d) prepare a plan of the planning area and recommend it to
the council for adopiton;
(e) recommend from time to time to the council the implemen-
tation of any of the features of the official plan."
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MEETINGS
The Planning Board meets at regular intervals and at such other times that are necessary
to accommodate persons wishing to appear before the Boaxdi. The meetings are open
to the Public. Proper minutes and records are kept by the Secretary of the Board.
The Planning Board has prepared and published a survey of the growth and potential
industrial and housing expansion that are indicated for our townships in the immediate
future. The Board has prepared and recommended to the Councils of the Townships of
Pickering and Whitby;
(1) A Building By-Law.
(2) A Subdivision Control By-Law
The Board has held public meetings and discussed with individual owners the
advisability of zoning for industrial use a tract of 2800 acres of land in the southern part of
Pickering Township). After a Public Hearing, the Ontario Municipal Board approved of
the zoning of this tract of land for industry pending further study relative to the location of
light and heavy industry, commercial areas, and possible residential sections.
This study is now going forward."
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WEED CONTROL ACT
Powers of Inspectors
Section 7 In order to search for noxious weeds or weed seeds in his jurisdiction any
inspector at any time between sunrise and sunset may enter upon any land, and may
enter any building other than a dwelling house, and may inspect any machinery,
implement or vehicle. 1950, c.88, S.7.
SECTION 8 Agreement for destruction
(1) Where the inspector finds noxious weeds or weed seeds on any land and the
occupant, or if the land is unoccupied, the owner, resides within his jurisdiction,
the inspector shall confer with him as to a satisfactory method of destroying such
noxious weeds or weed seeds, and if satisfactory arrangements are agreed upon,
the inspector and the occupant and the owner, as the case may be, may draw uip and
sign a memorandum of the agreement in the form prescribed1 in the regulations.
Order for destruction, residents
(2) Where no such agreement is made or where such agreement is made but the
occupant or owner making it fails to carry out its terms, or the inspector is unable to
find the occupant or owner at his usual place of residence on two different
occasions, the inspector may issue an order in the form prescribed in the regulations
requiring the person named therein to destroy the noxious weeds or weed seeds
within the period of time specified therein, which period shall not commence until at
least three days alter the person named in the order has been served with a copy thereof.
Service of order
(3) The order shall be served by leaving a copy thereof with an adult person at the
usual place of residence of the person named therein or by sending it by registered
post addressed to the person named therein at his usual place of residence. 1950, c. 88,
s.8.
SECTION 9 Order for destruction, non residents
(1) Where the inspector finds noxious weeds or weed seeds on any unoccupied land
and the owner does not reside within his jurisdiction, the inspector may issue an order
in the form prescribed in the regulations requiring the person named in the order to
destroy the noxious weeks or weed seeds within the period of time specified therein,
which period shall not commence until at least five days after the person named in the
order has been served with a copy thereof."
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Service of order
(2) The order shall be served by sending a copy thereof by registered post addressed to
the person named therein at his usual place of residence. 1950, c. 88, s. 9.
Section 10 Failure to comply with the order
If the person named in an order issued under Section 8 or 9 fails to comply therewith,
the inspector may cause the noxious weeds or weed seeds to be destroyed in such
manner as he may deem proper. 1950, c.88, s.10.
Section 11 Expenses of inspectors
(1) Every inspector shall keep a record of the expenses incurred by him in the
discharge of his duties under this Act with respect to each parcel of land concerned,
and he shall serve a statement thereon, together with a notice requesting payment,
on the occupant of the land, or if it is unoccupied, on the owner thereof.
Service of statement
(2) The statement and notice shall be served in the same manner as an order
under section 8 or 9, as the case may be.
Appeal
(3) If the person on whom the statement was served considers the amount of the
expenses to be excessive, he may, within seven days after the statement has been
served on him, appeal to the council of the municipality and the council may confirm the
statement or vary it in any way it deems proper.
Refusal or failure to pay
(4) If the occupant or owner, as the case may be, refuses or neglects to pay the amount
set out in the statement, or determined on appeal to be payable, within 15 days after the
request for payment or in the event of appeal, the disposition of the appeal, the inspector
shall pre_ sent the statement to the council and the council, if the statement is proper,
shall follow it and order it to be paid out of the general funds of the municipality.
Collection
(5) The council shall cause every amount so paid out to be placed on the collector's roll
against the land concerned and it shall be collected in the same manner as taxes
under The Assessment Act. 1950, C. 88, s. 11. Rev. Staf. c. 24
Subdivided areas
(12 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Council of any city, town,
village or township after pub lication of notice thereof in a newspaper having general
circulation in the municipality may direct any of its in-"
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pectors to cause the noxious weeds or weed seeds on any subdivided portions of the
municipality to be destroyed insuch manner as he may deem proper, and the inspector
shall report to the clerk of the municipality the a-mount of the expenses incurred by him
in the discharge of his dirties under this section with respect to each parcel of land
concerned and the clerk shall place on the collectors' roll of the municipality the
amounts so expended against the respective parcels concerned! and such amounts
shall be collected in the same manner as taxes under The Assessment Act subject to
an appeal to the Court of Revision of the municipality at any time during the year in
which such amounts are placed on the collector's roll. 1950, c. 88, s. 12. Rev. Stat., c. 24"
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REGULATIONS
made upon the recommendation of the Minister under The Weed Control Act.
1. The plants named in Schedule 1 shall be deemed noxious weeds.
Schedule 1
COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME
1. Bedstraws Galium spp.
2. Bladder Campion Silene latifolia (Mill.) Britten & Rendle
3. Burdocks Arctium spp.
4. Canada Thistle Cirsium arvense L., Scop.
5. Chicory Cichorium intybus L.
6. Cinquefoils Potentilla spp.
7. Common Barberry Berberis vulgaris L. and its varieties
8. Common or European Buckhorn Rhemnus cathartica L.
9. Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca L.
10. Common St. John's-Wort Hypericum perforatum L.
11. Cypress Spurge Euphorbia cyparissias L.
12. Docks Rumex crispus L. and R. obtusifolius L.
13. Dodder Cuscuta spp.
14. Field Bindweed Convolvulus arvensis L.
15. Goat's Beard Tragopogon spp.
16. Hawk-weeds Hkracium spp.
17. Leafy Spurges Euphorbia esula L. and E. viigata Waldt. & Kit.
18. Pepper Grasses Lepidium spp.
19. Poison Ivy Rhus toxicodendron L.
20. Ragweeds Ambrosia spp.
21. Russian Thistle Saloolo kali L.
22. Sow Thistles, Perennial & Annual Sonehus spp.
23. Stinfcweed Thlaspi arvense L.
24. Tumbling Mustard Sisymbrium altissimum L.
25. White Cookie Lychnis alba Mill.
26. Wild Carrot Daucus carota L.
27. Wild Lettuce Lactuca spp.
28. Wild Mustards Brassica arvensis L., Ktze.[;] B. juncea L., Cosson[;]
B. nigra L., Koch[;] B. campestris L."
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BY ORDER OF COUNCIL, all dogs will require a License in the year 1952, and will not
be assessed on the Tax Bill.
LICENSES shall toe secured from the Assessors or the Municipal Offices at the
following rates:
One Male Dog — $3.00; Second or additional — $6.00
One Female dog — $4.00; Second or additional — $8.00
Kennel License — $15.00 — on approval of Council
January 1952"
"TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
LIST SHOWING MEMBERS OF MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
AND PRINCIPAL OFFICERS, 1850 TO 1954
[Shared offices divided via comma]
YEAR REEVE DEP REEVE Councillors TREASURER CLERK
COLLECTOR ASSESSOR
1850 W H Michell R A Parker Peter Taylor, Fred Green, J Wixon P Taylor
Hec Beaton Hec Beaton Hec Beaton
1851 W H Michell R A Parker Peter Taylor, F Green, T P White P Taylor
Hec Beaton Hec Beaton Hec Beaton
1852 J M Lumsden R A Parker D Clerk, F Green, T P White P Taylor
Hec Beaton Hec Beaton IB Carpenter
1853 J M Lumsden R A Parker W H Michell, T P White, Geo Ballard
Wm Dunbar Hec Beaton Hec Beaton Jno Phillips
1954 [sic] J M Lumsden, T P White R A Parker T P White, Geo Ballard,
J Wixon Wm Dunbar Hec Beaton Hec Beaton Jno Phillips
1855 J M Lumsden J V Spears T P White, R Richardson, Sam Byer
Wm Dunbar Hec Beaton Hec Beaton Jno Phillips
1856 J M Lumsden J V Spears R Richardson, T P White, Sam Byer
Wm Dunbar Hec Beaton Hec Beaton R Varden"
"YEAR REEVE DEP REEVE Councillors TREASURER CLERK
COLLECTOR ASSESSOR
1857 T P White R Richardson J McCreight, J Clerk,J V Spears Wm Dunbar
Hec Beaton Hec Beaton D Gilchrist
1858 T P White J V Spears J McCreight, N Chapman, R Richardson
Wm Dunbar Hec Beaton Hec Beaton D Gilehrisx
1859 T P White J Wixon P Taylor, N Chapman, J McCreight
Wm Dunbar Hec Beaton Hec Beaton D Gilchrist
1860 T P White J Wixon Jr. J McCreight, N Chapman, RS Campbell
Wm Dunbar Hec Beaton Hec Beaton D Gilchrist
1861 T P White J Wixon Jr. J McCreight, N Chapman, J Haight Wm Dunbar H
ec Beaton Bob Vardon D Gilchrist
1862 T P White N Chapman J McCreight, J Haight, J Wixon Jr.
Wm Dunbar, Hec Beaton Hec Beaton Bob Vardon D Gilchrist
1863 T P White J Wixon Jr. J McCreight, J Haight, N Chapman
Hec Beaton Hec Beaton Hry Doyle D Gilchrist
1864 T P White J Haight J McCreight, J Wixon Jr., Geo Ballard
Hec Beaton Hec Beaton Jno Phillips D Gilchrist
1865 J MoCreight J Haight T P White, Geo Ballard, J Wixon Jr
Hec Beaton Hec Beaton Pat Larkin D Gilchrist"
"1866 T P White J Haight J McCreight, Geo Ballard, J Weir Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton Pat Larkin D Gilchrist
1867 J McOreight J Weir Sr., T C Hubbard J Miller, WH Burk Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton Pat Larkin D Gilchrist
1868 J McCreight Jos Wixon, J Miller J Parker, S J Green Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton Pat Larkin S Adamson
1869 T P White J Miller, J Haight SJ Green, S Mackey Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton W W Hubbard S Adamson
l870 T P White J Miller, J Haight SJ Green, SK Brown Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton W W Hubbard D Gilchrist
1871 T P White J Miller, J Haight S J Green, S K Brown Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton W W Hubbard D Gilchrist
1872 T P White J Miller, S K Brown SJ Green, J L Palmer Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton W W Hubbard D Gilchrist
1873 T P White J Miller, S K Brown SJ Green, JL Palmer Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton WW Hubbard D Gilchrist
1874 T P White S K Brown, S J Green Syl Mackey, JL Palmer Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton A Siharrard D Gilchrist
1875 J Miller S K Brown, S J Green J L Palmer, Syl Mackey Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton Pat Larkin D Gilchrist
1876 J Miller S K Brown, S J Green P R Hoover, Mat Gold Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton Pat Larkin Jno Phillips
1877 T P White S J Green, Syl Mackey, P R Hoover J Monkhouse Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton Dav Brown D Gilchrist
1878 J Miller S J Green, P R Hoover, J L Spink J Monkhouse Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton Geo (Phillip D Gilchrist"
"YEAR REEVE DEP REEVE Councillors TREASURER C3LERK
COLLECTOR ASSESSOR
1879 J Miller P R Hoover, T Barnard, Wm Forrester J Monkhouse Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton Pat Larkin E Stephenson
1880 J Miller P R Hoover, T Barnard, Wm Forrester J Monkhouse Hec Beaton
Hec Beaton Pat Larkin E Stepihenson
1881 J Miller P R Hoover, J Monkhouse, Wm Forrester J Mitchell
Hec Beaton Hec Beaton Pat Larkin L Mackey
1882 J Miller P R Hoover, J Mitchell Hec Beaton Hec Beaton
Pat Larkin L Mackey
J Monkhouse, Wm Forrester
1883 P R Hoover J Monkhouse, Wm Forrester, J Mitchell, WW Hubbard
Hec Beaton, W W Hubbard Hec Beaton, D R Beaton Pat Larkin L Mackey
1884 J Monkhouse Wm Forrester, J Mitchell, Jas Percy, Syl Mackey
W W Hubbard D R Beaton Pat Larkin L Mackey
1885 J Monkhouse Jas Percy, Syl Mackey, J L Palmer, Geo Parker
W W Hubbard D R Beaton F Hutchison L Mackey
1886 J Monkhouse Jas Percy, Syl Mackey, J L Palmer, Geo Parker
W W Hubbard D R (Beaton F Hutchison L Mackey"
"1887 J Monkhouse Jas Percy, Syl Mackey, J L Palmer, Geo Parker
W W Hubbard D R Beaton F Hutchison L Mackey
1888 J Miller Syl Mackey, J L Palmer, Geo Parker, T Poucher
W W Hubbard D R Beaton F Hutchison F A Beaton
1889 Syl Mackey H Wesgate, RR Mowbray, Geo Parker Geo Gerow
W W Hubbard D R Beaton F Hutchison F A Beaton
1890 J Miller H Westgate, RR Mowbray, Geo Parker Geo Gerow
W W Hubbard D R Beaton F Hutchison FA Beaton
1891 Geo. Parker R R Mowbray, Geo Gerow, A Boyer Jas Hilts
WW Hubbard T) R Beaton F Hutchison FA Beaton
1892 Geo. Parker R R Mowbray, Geo Gerow, A Boyer Jas Hilts
W W Hubbard D R Beaton F Hutchison L Harrison
1893 R R Mowbray Geo Gerow, T Poucher, D Annis J Richards
W W Hubbard D R Beaton F Hutchison L Harrison
1894 RR Mowforay Geo Gerow, T Poucher, Jas Hilts J Richards
WW Hubbard, Geo Parker D R Beaton F Hutchison RW Mowbray
1895 Geo Gerow T Poucher, RR Mowbray, Jas Hilts J Richards
Geo Parker DR Beaton F Hutchison R W Mowbray"
"YEAR REEVE DEP REEVE Councillors TREASURER CLERK
COIjDECTOR ASSESSOR
1898 Geo Gerow T Poucher, RR Mowbray, Jas Hilts J Richards
Geo Parker D R Beaton F Hutchison R W Mowbray
1897 RR Mowbray J Richards, T Beare, WG Barnes J Underbill Geo Parker
DR Beaton F Hutchison R W Mowbray
1898 R R Mowbray Thos Beare, WG Barnes, Jas Underhill Wm Cowan
Geo Parker D R Beaton F Hutchison R W Mowbray
1899 W G Barnes Thos Beare, Thos Poucher, Jas Richards,
Jas Underhill Geo Parker DR Beaton F Hutchison RW Mowbray
1900 W G Barnes Jas Richards, Thos Poucher, Jas Underhill,
Thos Beare Geo Parker D R Beaton F Hutchison R W Mowbray
1901 Thos Poucher Jas McBrady, Jas Todd, Jas Underhill,
D E Pugh Geo Parker DR Beaton F Hutchison Thos Beare
1902 Thos Poucher D E Pugh, Jas McBrady, Jas Underhill,
Jas Todd Geo Parker D R Beaton F Hutchison R S Phillips
1903 Thos Beare DE Pugh, JM Gerow, Jas Todd,
Jas MeBrady Geo Parker DR Beaton F Hutchison RS Phillips"
"1904 Jas Underhill Jas McBrady, Jas Todd, J M Gerow, DE Pugh
Geo Parker DR Beaton F Hutchison RS Phillips
1905 Jas McBrady J M Gerow, CS Palmer, Jas Todd, Alex Wilson
Geo Parker D R Beaton F Hutchison Thos Beare
1906 James Todd J McFarlane, TC Osborne, CS Palmer, JA White
Geo Parker DR Beaton F Hutchison John Forgie
1-907 James Todd Thos Poucher J McFarlane, Alex Wilson, TC Osborne
Geo Parker D R Beaton F Hutchison John Forgie
1908 John A White R R Mowbray E B Hoover, W G Scott, WW Sparks
Geo Parker DR Beaton F Hutchison John Forgie
1909 John A White R R Mowbray E B Hoover, WG Scott, W W Sparks
Geo Parker D R Beaton F Hutchison R S Phillips
1910 John A White RR Mowbray E B Hoover, W G Scott, WW Sparks
Geo Parker, W G Barnes DR Beaton TC Brown R S Phillips
1911 RR Mowbray WG Scott EB Hoover, WW Sparks, Alex Wilson
WG Barnes DR Beaton TC Brown John Forgie
1912 W G Scott W W Sparks E B Hoover, RR Mowbray, Alex Wilson
W G Barnes D R Beaton Geo Cooper John Forgie"
"YEAR REEVE DEP REEVE Councillors TREASURER CILERK
COIiLECTOR ASSESSOR
1913 WW Sparks E B Hoover John Forgie, RK Mowbray, Alex Wilson
WG Barnes DR Beaton Geo Cooper Ed Willson
1914 WW Sparks EB Hoover John Forgie, RR Mowbray, Alex Wilson
WG Barnes DR Beaton Geo Cooper Ed Willson
1915 E B Hoover RR Mowbray Alex Wilson, John Forgie, W W Sparks
WG Barnes DR Beaton Geo Cooper Ed Willson
1916 E B Hoover RR Mowbray John Forgie, WW Sparks, Alex Wilson
WG Barnes DR Beaton Thos Gregg Ed Willson
1917 RR Mowbray John Forgie Alex Wilson, F Richardson, WJ Stanley
WG Barnes DR Beaton Thos Gregg Ed Willson
1918 RR Mowbray, John Forgie John Forgie, F Richardson Alex Wilson,
Hugh Pugh, WJ Stanley W G Barnes DR Beaton Thos Gregg Ed Willson
1919 W G Scott F Richardson M S Chapman, G L Middleton, Hugh Pugh
W G Barnes DR Beaton Thos Gregg Ed Willson
1920 W G Scott F Richardson MS Chapman, G L Middleton, Hugh Pugh
W G Barnes DR Beaton Thos Gregg Ed Willson
1921 F Richardson Hugh Pugh GM Forsyth, G L Middleton, Adam Spears
WG Barnes DR Beaton Thos Gregg Ed Willson
1922 F Richardson John Forgie, Adam Spears GM Forsyth, L Puckrin
W G Barnes DR Beaton Thos Gregg Ed Willson"
"1923 John Forgie Adam Spears,G M Forsyth GL Middleton, J A White W G Barnes
DR Beaton Thos Gregg Ed Willson
1924 John Forgie Adam Spears, GM Forsyth G L Middleton, J A White W G Barnes,
Hugh Pugh D R Beaton Thos Gregg Len Neale
1925 Adam Spears G M Forsyth, GL Middleton J A White, EL Chapman
Hugh Pugh D R Beaton Thos Gregg Len Neale
1926 Adam Spears G M Forsyth,GL Middleton J A White, E L Chapman
Hugh Pugh D R Beaton Thos Gregg John Forgie
1927 G M Forsyth GL Middleton, EL Chapman J A White, WJ Turner
Hugh Pugh D R Beaton Thos Gregg Adam Spears
1928 G M Forsyth GL Middleton,EL Chapman A B Moore, RC Reesor
Hugh Pugh D R Beaton Thos Gregg Adam Spears
1929 GM Forsyth GL Middleton,E L Chapman A B Moore, R C Reesor
Hugh Pugh DR Beaton W G Scott Adam Spears
1930 G Middleton E L Chapman, A B Moore R E Mowbray, R C Reesor
Hugh Pugh D R Beaton W G Scott Adam Spears
1931 G Middleton EL Chapman,AB Moore R E Mowbray, RC Reesor
Hugh Pugh DR Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears
1932 EL Chapman A B Moore RE Mowbray, RC Reesor, Wm Reesor
Hugh Pugh DR Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears
1933 EL Chapman GL Middleton R E Mowbray, RC Reesor, Wm Reesor
Hugh Pugh DR Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears
1934 EL Chapman RC Reesor GL Middleton, R E Mowbray, Wm Reesor
Hugh Pugh DR Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears
1935 R C Reesor RE Mowbray WH Down, GL Middleton,Wm Reesor
Hugh Pugh DR Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears"
"YEAR REEVE DEP REEVE Councillors TREASURER CLERK
COLLECTOR ASSESSOR
1936 R C Reesor RE Mowbray WH Down, G L Middleton, Wm Reesor
Hugh Pugh DR Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears
1937 R C Reesor R E Mowbray W H Down, G L Middleton, Wm Reesor
Hugh Pugh D R Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears
1938 RE Mowbray Wm Reesor DB Annis, WH Down, RS Ruddy
Hugh Pugh DR Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears
1939 R E Mowbray Wm Reesor D B Annis, WH Down, RS Ruddy
Hugh Pugh D R Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears
1940 Wm Reesor W H Down D B Annis, Elmer Powell, RS Ruddy
Hugh Pugh D R Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears
1941 Wm Reesor WH Down DBAnnis, Geo T Todd, WH Westney
Hugh Pugh DR Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears
1942 Wm Reesor DB Annis MS Chapman, Geo T Todd, WH Westney
Hugh Pugh DR Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears
1943 Wm Reesor DBAnnis MS Chapman, Geo T Todd, WH Westney
Hugh Pugh DR Beaton L Johnston Adam Spears
1944 Wm Reesor D B Annis M S Chapman, Geo T Todd, WH Westney
Hugh Pugh, L Johnston D R Beaton, L Johnston L Johnston Adam Spears"
"1945 D B Annis WH Westney Geo T Todd, EF Disney, M B Burk L Johnston
L Johnston L Johnston Adam Spears
1946 D B Annis W H Westney Geo T Todd, EF Disney, M B Burk L Johnston
L Johnston L Johnston Adam Spears
1947 D B Annis W H Westney Geo T Todd, E F Disney, M B Burk L. Johnston
i, Johnston L Johnston Adam Spears
1948 W H Westney N E McEwen CA Balsdon, EF Disney, M B Burk L Johnston
L Johnston L Johnston Adam Spears
1949 W H Westney E F Disney C A Balsdon, Geo T Todd, M B Burk L. Johnston
L Johnston L Johnston, EG Baker J Blackwell
1950 W H Westney G T Todd C A Balsdon, M B Burk, F Zinkie L Johnston
L Johnston E G Baker EK Jones
1951 W H Westney NE MoEwen C A Balsdon, MB Burk, F Zinkie L Johnston
L Johnston EG Baker EK Jones
1952 Geo T Todd MB Burk C A Balsdon, H G Michell, WG Newman
L Johnston L Johnston EG Baker ElK Jones
1953 Geo T Todd C A Balsdon WG Lawson, W G Newman, HG Michell
L Johnston L Johnston EG Baker EK Jones
1964 Geo T Todd C A Balsdon W G Lawson, W G Newman, H G Michell
L, Johnston L Johnston E G Baker EK Jones"
"The following is a list of the Reeves from Pickering Township who have filled the
Warden's Chair in the years designated :
1861—Truman P. White, 1876—John Miller, 1887—Joseph Monkhouse,
1893—R. R. Mowbray, 1902—George Gerow, 1909—R. R. Mowbray,
1920—W. G. Scott, 1922—F. H. Richardson, 1928—G. M. Forsyth,
1944—Wm. Reesor, 1950—W. H. Westney."
"Index to Bylaws
1787 Building By-laws
1795 Building By-laws
2006 Building By-laws
2016 Building By-laws
2020 Building By-laws
1923 Community Centre, Frenchman's Bay
1901 Culverts, installation of
1311 Domestic animals running at large 1528 Fires, Setting of
1823 Fire Area No. 1
2038 Game Preserve
1790 Game Preserve Committee
1832 Garbage
1318 Guns, Firing of
1312 Highways, Fouling of 1904 Highways, Through
1561 Licensing, Cabs, Busses, Motor and other Vehicles for hire
2009 Licensing, Dogs
1316 Licensing, Exhibitions
1443 Licensing, Pedlars
1461 Licensing, Pedlars
1499 Licensing, Pedlars
1829 Licensing, Pin Ball Machines
1314 Licensing, Poolrooms, etc.
1665 Licensing, Restaurants
1838 Licensing, Trailer Camps
1860 Noise
1971 Nude Bathing
1784 Parking, Harwood Drive
1771 Planning Act
1754 Planning Board"
"1853 Police Areas
1967 Polling Subdivisions — boundary alterations
2023 Polling Subdivisions
1334 Public Health
1317 Public Morals
1562 Roads, Cutting Trees
2012 Roads, Subdivision
1686 School Area No. 1
1959 School Section No. 1 Limits defined
1960 School Section No. 18 Limits defined
2018 Septic Tanks
1313 Sidewalks
1336 Sidewalks, Spitting on
1667 Slot Machines, Prohibiting
1746 Speed Limits, Altona Road between Highway No.2 & Cone. 1
1571 Speed Limits, Claremont Police Village
1821 Speed Limits, Fairport
1958 Speed Limits, Greenwood
1975 Speed Limits, Pickering Beach, & parking restrictions
1913 Speed Limits, Whitevale
2039 Swine (Regulations) 1911 Tents, occupation of
1909 Traffic, Regulating
1757 Voting Hours
1942 Warble Fly Control 1980A Window Peeping
1922 Wire Fence Bonus
1914 Zoning, Port Union
1917 Zoning, Industrial Uses
1926 Zoning, Amending 1914
1940 Zoning, Amending 1914
1978 Zoning, West Rouge
1984 Amending 1978
2010 Zoning, West Rouge"
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