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
- December 16, 2025
- Also called
- By-law No. 23-234 Office Consolidation
- For
- any
- Signed by
- mayor · city clerk
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 28
- Instruments
- Municipal Act, 2001
Overview
City of Hamilton By-law No. 23-234, the Sewer and Drain By-law, which repealed and replaced By-law No. 06-026, in an office consolidation updated December 16, 2025 with amending By-law 25-207. It regulates the installation, connection and use of sewers and drains: connection where land is not directly serviced, the private and public portions of sewer laterals, permits, bonds and notice, pipe standards, parking area drainage, downspouts, foundation drains and sump pumps, lateral repair and replacement, and building removal. Schedules illustrate property drainage terms and a joined sanitary-foundation drain lateral.
What it covers
- Definitions
- Interpretation and Application of By-law
- Administration and Enforcement
- Connection Where Land Not Directly Serviced
- Sewer Laterals – Private Portion and Public Portion
- Permit, Bond and Notice
- Standards for Pipe and Fittings
- Installation of Sewer Laterals
- Parking Area Drainage
- Downspouts
- Foundation Drains/Sump Pumps
- Maintenance, Repair and Replacement of Sewer Laterals
- Removal or Demolition of Buildings
- General Prohibitions
- Penalty
- Schedules
- Repeal, Transition and Enactment
- Short Title
- Effective Date
- Property Drainage Terminology
- Joined Sanitary-Foundation Drain Lateral vs. Best Practice
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