- Alias
- By-law No. 23-161
- Applies to
- owner
- Signatories
- mayor · acting city clerk
- Document date
- 13th day of September 2023
City of Hamilton By-law 23-161, referred to in its own Part I as the vital services by-law and replacing By-law No. 09-190. Enacted under Part XIII of the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, it covers an adequate and suitable supply of water, gas, fuel oil or electricity to rental units, notice before a landlord shuts a service off, a supplier's thirty-day notice of discontinuance to the director, restoration of a service by the city, and the lien and rent-direction mechanism that recovers the cost plus a ten per cent administrative fee.
What it covers
- Part I – Short Title, Interpretation and Severability
- Part II – Application of By-law
- Part III – Definitions
- Part IV – Requirement of Landlords
- Part V – Supplier's Responsibilities
- Part VI – Administration and Enforcement
- Part VII – Offences and Penalties
- Part VIII – Transition and Enactment
- Notice of Discontinuance
- Restoration of Vital Service
- Liens
- Appeal of Lien Certificate
- Rents
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- Publisher
- City of Hamilton
- Category
- By-laws
- Published under
- Frequently Requested By Laws — the municipality's own heading
- Form ref
- Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, S.O. 2006 chapter 17, Part XIII, sections 215 through 223
- Instruments
- Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, S.O. 2006 chapter 17, Part XIII, sections 215 through 223 · Municipal Act, 2001 S.O. 2001, chapter 25, section 23.5
- Building types
- residential
- Document date display
- September 13, 2023
- Tags
vital-servicesrental-housinglandlordliens