BramptonSite Alteration & EngineeringTrees
Tree Preservation By-law 317-2012
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
- 14th day of November 2012
- Also called
- Tree Preservation By-law
- For
- owner
- Signed by
- mayor · clerk
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 15
- Instruments
- Municipal Act, 2001
Overview
The office consolidation of Brampton's Tree Preservation By-law 317-2012, passed in November 2012 under subsection 135(1) of the Municipal Act, 2001, repealing By-law 38-2006 and covering trees on private land. It defines a tree by a 4.5 metre mature height and measures DBH at 1.37 metres. Its exemptions include woodlots, left to the separate Woodlot Conservation By-law, hazardous trees, emergency work, trees within 2 metres of an occupied building and trees under 30 centimetres DBH. Permits run one year, fines reach $100,000, and Schedule A lists pests.
What it covers
- Part I – Title, Scope and Interpretation
- Part II – Definitions
- Part III – Prohibitions
- Part IV – Exemptions
- Part V – Permits
- Part VI – Application
- Part VII - Orders
- Part VIII – Enforcement
- Part IX - Penalties
- Part X – General
- Schedule “A” List of Pests
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