This is the City of Hamilton’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 Hamilton
- Date
- January 31, 2025
- Also called
- By-law No. 15-058 - Office Consolidation
- Form reference
- Building Code Act, 1992, section 7
- For
- any
- Signed by
- mayor · city clerk
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 31
- Instruments
- Building Code Act, 1992 · Municipal Act, 2001
Overview
The City of Hamilton's By-law No. 15-058 under the Building Code Act, 1992 respecting permits and related matters, consolidated to January 31, 2025 with amendments 15-189 to 25-008. It covers permits, plans and specifications, fees and refunds, permit revocation and transfer, notices, construction-site fencing and registered code agencies. Schedule A tables the service index per square metre for each occupancy group; later schedules set refunds, surcharges for work begun without a permit, the plans and documents listed per building type, and a code of conduct for building officials.
What it covers
- Short Title
- Definitions
- List of Schedules
- Permits
- Plans and Specifications
- Fees
- Permit Revocation, Deferral of Revocation and Transfer
- Notices
- Fencing
- Registered Code Agencies and Limiting Distance Agreements
- Code of Conduct
- Severability
- Repeal
- Effective Date
- Respecting Classes of Permits and Fees
- Classes of Permits and Fees
- Refund of Permit Fees
- Percentage Increase in Applicable Permit Fees for Work Commenced or Completed Without Permit
- Plans and Documents Required for Permit Applications
- Code of Conduct for Building Officials
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