This is the City of Markham’s document, as published on its website on 18 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 Markham
- Date
- 2014
- Also called
- Sewers By-law 2014-71
- For
- any
- Signed by
- City Clerk · Deputy Mayor
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 29
- Instruments
- Municipal Act, 2001
Overview
Markham's By-law 2014-71, the Sewer Use By-law, for the installation and connection of private sewers to the City's sewage works and the discharge of sewage, storm water and land drainage, passed May 27, 2014; Markham's later By-law 2023-150 repeals it. It sets sanitary and storm sewer discharge rules, compliance programs, pollution prevention plans, sampling, spills, dental amalgam separators, oil and grease and sediment interceptors, private sewage systems, sewer connection applications, fees, offences and penalties. Schedule A tables the sanitary and storm discharge limits.
What it covers
- Definitions and Interpretation
- Administration
- Sanitary Sewer Requirements
- Storm Sewer Requirements
- Prohibition of Dilution
- Discharger Information Request
- Surcharge Agreement
- Compliance Program
- Pollution Prevention Plan
- Sampling and Analytical Requirements
- Spills
- Confidential Information
- Dental Waste Amalgam Separators
- Food related Oil and Grease Interceptors
- Vehicle and Equipment Service Oil and Grease Interceptors
- Sediment Interceptors
- Maintenance Access Holes
- Private Sewage Disposal Systems
- Sewer Connections
- General Prohibition and Liability for Damages
- Fees
- Offences
- Penalties
- Power of Entry, Inspection and Enforcement
- Limitation
- Severability
- Schedules
- Repeal
- Short Title
- Force and Effect
- Limits for Sanitary Sewer Discharge
- Limits for Storm Sewer Discharge
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