BramptonBuilding PermitsAdditional Residential Units

Additional Residential Unit (ARU) Registration By-law

Published by City of Brampton

This is the City of Brampton’s document, as published on its website on 19 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice

Type
By-law
Published by
City of Brampton
Date
10th day of August, 2022
Also called
Additional Residential Units (ARUs) Registration By-law
For
owner
Signed by
mayor · city clerk
Building types
All building types
Pages
9
Instruments
Municipal Act, 2001 · Planning Act · Building Code Act, 1992

Overview

The City of Brampton's Additional Residential Unit (ARU) Registration By-law, numbered 157-2022, office-consolidated with the amendments made by By-law 70-2023 and repealing By-law 87-2015. It defines an attached ARU, a garden suite, a principal dwelling, and two-unit and three-unit dwellings, names the chief building official as registrar, and sets a $200 registration fee for each unit. Later parts cover refusal and revocation against the Ontario Building Code, Fire Code, Electrical Safety Code and the city's zoning and property standards by-laws, inspection, orders, fines and service of documents.

What it covers

  • Recitals
  • Part I – Title, Interpretation and Severability
  • Part II – Definitions
  • Part III – Prohibition
  • Part IV – Registration
  • Part V – Refusal and Revocation
  • Part VI – Inspection
  • Part VII – Order
  • Part VIII – Penalty
  • Part IX – Service of Documents
  • Part X – Administrative Penalties
  • Part XI – Exemption
  • Part XII - Schedules
  • Part XIII – Repeal
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