Burn Permit

By-Law 313-86 of the Corporation of The City of Cambridge

Being a by-law of the Corporation of the City of to regulate open fires.

WHEREAS Section 210(28) of the Municipal Act, R.S.O. 1980, C.302 provides for the passing of by-laws to prescribe the times during which fires may be set in the open air and the precautions to be observed by persons setting out fires; NOW THEREFORE, THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:

  1. No person shall set out or cause to be set out any open-air fire unless approved by the Cambridge Fire Chief or designate.
  2. The Fire Chief or designate may refuse approval of any open fire in any area zoned residential.
  3. The Fire Chief or designate may approve of any open fire in any area zoned commercial or industrial provided the fire complies with the Ministry of the Environment Open Air Burning Guidelines.
  4. The Fire Chief or designate may indicate approval of open air burning by way of issuing a permit.
  5. Any person requesting an open-air burning permit shall do so in writing, to the Fire Chief or designate, and any requests shall be accompanied by the fee prescribed in the Rate Review as adopted annually by Council.
  6. Any open-air burning permit may be cancelled by the Fire Chief or designate.
  7. No person may continue to burn an open fire after a permit has been cancelled.
  8. No person shall burn petroleum products, plastics, rubber or anything that results in smoke, which in the opinion of the Fire Chief or designate, is excessive.
  9. No person shall set a fire within 153 metres of a building.
  10. No person shall burn in excess of one cubic metre of material at one time.
  11. No person shall, having set a fire, leave the fire unattended.
  12. No person shall burn on days where rain, fog, or any weather condition prevents the dispersal of smoke.
  13. No person shall burn in such a manner that the smoke creates, in the opinion of the Fire Chief or designate, a nuisance, or a hazard for motorists.
  14. This by-law shall not apply to any small, confined fire, supervised at all times, and used to cook food on a grill or a barbeque.
  15. This by-law shall not apply to any open-air fires set out on lands zoned agricultural.
  16. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-law shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding two thousand dollars exclusive of costs, for each offence and the penalty shall be recoverable pursuant to the Provincial Offences Act.
  17. Should any part of this by-law be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be ultra vires, the remaining parts shall nevertheless remain valid and binding and shall be read as if the offending section had been struck out.
  18. In this by-law, unless the context requires otherwise, words importing the singular shall include the plural and words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine.


READ A FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD TIME, ENACTED AND PASSED THIS 8TH DAY OF DECEMBER, A.D. 1986
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