NEIGHBOURHOOD LIVEABILITY BY-LAW TABLE OF …

1 NEIGHBOURHOOD LIVEABILITY BY-LAW TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction section 1 part 1 standards Applicable to All Properties Division 1 Basic Maintenance section 3 Division 2 Derelict Vehicles section 18 part 2 Residential Properties section 26 part 3 Littering and Garbage section 53 part 4 Handbills, Posters and Temporary Signs section 58 part 5 Noise Control section 65 part 6 Open Air Burning section 72 part 7 Addresses and Building Names section 83 part 8 Boulevard Maintenance section 86 part 9 Mosquito Control section 94 part 10 Administration Division 1 Permits section 99 Division 2 Appeals section 104 Division 3 Miscellaneous section 107 Division 4 Penalties section 109 Division 5 Consequential Amendments section 110 Division 6 Coming into force section 114 THE CITY OF WINNIPEG NEIGHBOURHOOD LIVEABILITY BY-LAW NO.

2 1/2008 A BY-LAW of THE CITY OF WINNIPEG to regulate the maintenance of properties and other aspects of NEIGHBOURHOOD LIVEABILITY in order to develop and maintain safe, orderly, viable and sustainable communities and to promote and maintain the health, safety and welfare of residents. THE CITY OF WINNIPEG, in Council assembled, enacts as follows: Short Title 1. This BY-LAW may be referred to as the NEIGHBOURHOOD LIVEABILITY BY-LAW . Definitions 2. In this BY-LAW accessory structure means a building or structure that is located on the same zoning lot as, and is subordinate or incidental to, a principal building or structure or use, and includes an outbuilding, garage, utility building, play structure, sign and structures supporting a sign, garbage enclosure, awning, fence, racking, storage unit or container, deck, antenna, canopy, marquee, satellite dish, mechanical penthouse, hot tub, fountain, water barrel, pond and swimming pool.

3 Back lane means a street that has been designed, constructed and intended to provide access to and service at the rear of places of residence or business; basement means that portion of a building between two floor levels which is partly or wholly below the adjacent finished grade; bathroom means a room containing a bathtub or shower and a sink; boulevard means the portion of a street on either side of a roadway but does not include a sidewalk, median or traffic island; Chief Administrative Officer means the Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Winnipeg or delegate; BY-LAW No.

4 1/2008 2 Chief of Police means the Chief of Police of the City of Winnipeg or delegate; Code means the Manitoba Building Code and the Plumbing Code adopted by the Winnipeg Building BY-LAW , the Manitoba Fire Code adopted by the Fire Prevention BY-LAW and the Electrical Code adopted by the Electrical BY-LAW , whichever is applicable; designated employee means the Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Winnipeg or an employee of the City of Winnipeg to whom he or she has delegated the authority to administer or enforce all or part of this BY-LAW ; directional sign means: (a) a sign which directs the public to or denotes the name of any thoroughfare, route, educational institution, public building, historical site, or hospital; (b) a sign which denotes any public or transportation facility; dwelling means a building or other structure, all or part of which has been used, is used or is capable of being used for human habitation, and includes: (a) a single or two-family dwelling house; (b) an apartment block or other multiple family residential building; (c) a group home, assisted living facility and dormitory.

5 (d) a live-work space; (e) a mobile home or recreational vehicle; (f) a hostel; and (g) a hotel; dwelling unit means (a) a single family dwelling house; (b) a suite within a dwelling; or BY-LAW No. 1/2008 3 (c) one or more connected rooms within a dwelling, which may or may not include sanitary or kitchen facilities, used as a residence by a single person or by two or more people, whether related or not, who are living together as a housekeeping unit; election sign means a sign used to promote a candidate or party during a municipal, provincial or federal election, or any election held pursuant to The Local Authorities Election Act or The Public Schools Act.

6 Enforcement officer means (a) an employee of the City of Winnipeg to whom the designated employee has delegated authority to enforce, implement or administer all or part of this BY-LAW ; and (b) any public health inspector with jurisdiction to enforce by-laws related to public health and safety within the boundaries of the City of Winnipeg; and (c) a member of the Winnipeg Police Service; extended boulevard means a boulevard that (a) is at least 20 feet wide, as measured from the roadway to the sidewalk or property line; or (b) is intended to accommodate future street development; fence means a constructed barrier or wall that is a fixture and includes a retaining wall and a railing enclosing a property; garage sale sign means a sign advertising the sale of personal or household goods from a residential property; garbage includes: (a) animal, vegetable and agricultural wastes, including manure; (b) ashes; (c) large items of refuse, including appliances, indoor furniture, dilapidated outdoor furniture, mattresses, large auto parts and crates; BY-LAW No.

7 1/2008 4 (d) construction and demolition wastes; (e) dead animals; (f) industrial refuse; (g) rubbish; (h) abandoned or unattended shopping carts; (i) hazardous wastes; (j) wrecked, dismantled, partially dismantled, inoperative, discarded, or abandoned trailers, machinery or vehicles or parts thereof; (k) any deserted or discarded article, product or goods of manufacture; but does not include a derelict vehicle, as defined in Division 2 of part 1; guard means a guard as required by The Manitoba Building Code, adopted by the Winnipeg Building BY-LAW , for stairs, landings, porches, balconies, mezzanines, galleries, raised walkways and roofs to which access is provided for purposes other than maintenance; habitable room means any room in a dwelling that is used or capable of being used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating or any combination thereof.

8 Handbill means any printed or written matter, sample or device, and includes a circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper or booklet that does not identify itself as being directed to a particular person but does not include a newspaper, mail or notices delivered by Canada Post and material distributed during a municipal, provincial or federal election which has been authorized by the official agent of a candidate; hardwired , in relation to an electrical appliance or device, means the process or condition by which the appliance or device has been permanently connected to an electrical circuit installed in compliance with the Electrical BY-LAW ; heating system means: (a) a central furnace fuelled by natural gas, propane, electricity or oil; (b) a geothermal heat pump; BY-LAW No.

9 1/2008 5 (c) hardwired baseboard heaters; (d) a stove fuelled by wood or other solid fuel; or (e) a furnace fuelled by wood and another fuel; but does not include one or more electrical space heaters connected by electrical cords to an electrical outlet; lux means the SI unit of illuminance equal to one lumen per m2; median means a portion of a street in the centre of a roadway that is maintained to improve traffic safety by separating lanes of opposing traffic and is not intended to carry vehicular traffic; mobile sign means a sign which is mounted on a trailer, vehicle, stand or similar support structure which is designed in such a manner that the sign can be readily relocated to another location, and which may include copy that can be changed through the use of removable characters or panels.

10 Newspaper means any newspaper or magazine of general circulation for which the occupant has paid or requested delivery; non-habitable room means any room in a dwelling or dwelling unit other than a habitable room and includes a bathroom, toilet room, laundry, pantry, lobby, communicating corridor, stairway, closet, boiler room, locker room or other space for service and maintenance of the dwelling, for publ