The Regional Municipality of Peel
By-law number 5-2024

A by-law to amend By-law 53-2010, titled the “Amended Wastewater By-law 53-2010”.

Whereas section 11 of the Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, c.25, as amended, (the “Act”) provides that The Regional Municipality of Peel (the “Region”) shall have exclusive responsibility for collection of sanitary sewage and sewage treatment within the Regional area;

And whereas, the Council of the Regional Municipality of Peel on July 8, 2010, enacted By-law 53-2010 respecting the discharge of matter into the sanitary and storm sewage systems of the Regional Municipality of Peel and making provision for the establishment of sewer rates and charges;

And whereas, section 391 of the Act provides that the Region may impose fees or charges on persons for services or activities provided or done by or on behalf of it;

And whereas, section 425 of the Act provides that the Region may pass by-laws providing that a person who contravenes a by-law of the Region is guilty of an offence;

And whereas, the Council of the Regional Corporation has by resolution adopted on January 11, 2024 authorized that By-law 53-2010 be amended to substitute the rates and charges set out in Schedule A hereto for the corresponding rates and charges set out in Schedule A to By-law 53-2010;

Now therefore, the Council of the Regional Corporation enacts as follows:

1. That Part 16, subsections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 – Liability for Wastewater Charge Based on Metered Water Supply of Wastewater By-law 53-2010 be deleted and replaced with revised Part 16, sub sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 as outlined in Schedule A.
2. That the “Liability for Wastewater Charge Based on Metered Water Supply” section to By-law 53-2010 of the Wastewater By-law of The Regional Municipality of Peel take effect on all water bills rendered on or after April 1, 2024.
3. This by-law and attached Schedule A outlining rates and charges for wastewater services and activities are hereby adopted and enacted.
4. Despite the amendment of By-law 53-2010 herein, that the tariff of fees set out in Schedule A to By-law 53-2010, on the day immediately prior to the day this by-law comes into effect, shall continue to apply to fees which became payable prior to the date upon which this by-law comes into effect.
5. This By-law may be referred to as the “Amended Wastewater By-law 53-2010”.
6. This By-law takes effect for all accounts rendered on or after April 1, 2024.

Read three times And passed in open Council this 25th day of January, 2024.