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
- February 22, 2022
- Also called
- Hamilton Sign By-law - Office Consolidation
- Form reference
- Municipal Act, 2001, paragraph 10 of subsection 10(2)
- For
- any
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 36
- Instruments
- Municipal Act, 2001, paragraph 10 of subsection 10(2)
Overview
The office consolidation of the City of Hamilton Sign By-law, By-law No. 10-197, which replaced By-law No. 06-243, updated February 22, 2022. Its index runs from definitions through title, scope and intent, into interpretation and administration — permits, refusal, expiry or renewal, existing signs and refunds — then into regulations written separately for each sign type, among them ground, wall, mobile, portable, inflatable, poster, billboard and digital billboard signs, before variances and penalties. Schedule 1 holds the election sign rules. It incorporates six amending by-laws, the latest By-law 22-031.
What it covers
- Definitions
- Title, Scope and Intent
- Interpretation and Administration
- Administration
- Permits
- Sign Permit Refusal, Expiry or Renewal
- Existing Signs
- Refunds
- General Prohibitions and Regulations
- Regulations for Particular Types of Signs
- Prohibited Signs
- Ground Signs, Including Construction Information Ground Signs
- Wall Signs, Including Projecting Signs
- Mobile Signs
- Banners
- Inflatable Signs
- Posters
- Election Signs
- Billboards
- Digital Billboards
- Other Signs
- Variances
- Penalties and Enforcement
- Conflict
- Validity
- Transition and Repeal
- Effective Date
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