302 Powers Of Council (with Respect To Sewers And Drains)

• 302 The Council may provide
• Sewerage and drainage system

• (a) for the construction, installation, maintenance, repair, and regulation of a system of sewerage and drainage, including all necessary appliances and equipment, and for acquiring real property and easements therefor;

• Course of sewers and drains

• (b) for conducting any sewer or drain beyond the limits of the city, or into the waters of Burrard Inlet, English Bay, Georgia Strait, or the North Arm of the Fraser River;

• Basic sewer and drainage levy

• (c) by by-law, for requiring the owner or occupier of any parcel of real property that is capable of being served by a sewer or drain to pay a levy to the city for the opportunity to use the sewer or drain, whether or not the parcel is connected with the sewer or drain, which levy may vary in relation to different classes of property as established by the Council, including but not limited to classes based on the area of the property or on the area of the property covered by impermeable material;

• Sewer and drainage use charges

• (d) by by-law, for requiring the owner or occupier of any parcel of real property to pay a charge to the city on the use of a sewage or drainage system, which charge may vary in relation to one or more of the following as established by the Council:
  • (i) different classes of property, including but not limited to classes based on the area of the property or on the area of the property covered by impermeable material;
  • (ii) different classes of users;
  • (iii) the number, size and type of connections;
  • (iv) the quantity of water delivered to the property;
  • (v) the area of the parcel that is covered by impermeable material;
  • (vi) the volume of drainage flowing from the property, as measured or estimated by the City Engineer;
  • (vii) different classes of effluents;
  • (viii) the volume and quality of each class of effluent discharged by the user, as measured or estimated by the City Engineer;
  • (ix) for charges in relation to sewerage facilities of the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District, any of the factors under section 7C(2)(b) and (c) of the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District Act;

• Connection may be required

• (e) for compelling the owner or occupier of any parcel of real property abutting on any street in which a sewer or drain is laid to install an effective connection with such sewer or drain, and that the fee for such connection as prescribed by by-law shall be charged against the parcel served thereby by inserting in the real-property tax roll as a charge imposed with respect to such parcel such annual amounts and for such number of years as the by-law may provide;

• Provision for installation

• (f) for the installation of a connection to any parcel of real property abutting on any street in which a sewer or drain is installed, from such sewer, and for fixing the terms and conditions upon which such connections shall be installed;

• Terms of unstopping connections

• (g) for the unstopping of any such connection, and for requiring that the applicant therefor shall bear the cost of such unstopping, except where it becomes necessary through default on the part of the city;

• Connection to new sewers

• (h) that when a new sewer or drain is installed in any street, a connection from the sewer or drain to the street-line shall then be installed opposite each taxable parcel of real property abutting on such street and having thereon any building, and that any work upon the said parcel necessary to join such connection effectively to any building shall be done as part of the work of installing the said connection and for providing that the fee for such connection as prescribed by by-law shall be charged against the parcel so served by inserting in the real-property tax roll as a charge imposed with respect to such parcel such annual amounts as the by-law may provide;

• Charges payable in annual amounts

• (i) that the registered owner of any parcel abutting on any street wherein is already installed a sewer or drain who may desire to have such a connection installed to serve such parcel may, by writing, charge the said parcel with the cost of such connection in such annual amounts as the by-law may prescribe, and that such amounts may be inserted in the real-property tax roll as a charge imposed with respect to such parcel;

• Levy and charges to be paid

• (i.1) by by-law, for compelling the payment of the levies and charges under paragraphs (c) to (i), including providing that such a levy or charge be inserted in the real-property tax roll with respect to the parcels to which it relates;

• Septic tanks

• (j) for regulating the installation and use of septic tanks, and for prohibiting their use where sewers are available, or where their use might constitute a menace to health;

• Sewage and surface-water disposal

• (k) for making such regulations for the disposal of sewage and surface water as is deemed necessary in the interest of health and sanitation;

• Watercourses

• (l) for widening, deepening, straightening, diverting, or otherwise improving natural and other watercourses and protecting the same from encroachment and injury;

• Their position

• (m) for determining the position of such watercourses, whether upon city property or upon privately owned property, and for incorporating them in the city’s drainage system;

• Sewage-disposal plant

• (n) for establishing and maintaining within or without the city a system of sewage-disposal by means of works designed for the processing and purification of sewage and for the sale or other disposition of the resulting products;

• Flood control

• (o) for the construction and maintenance of dikes or embankments and ancillary facilities to prevent the flooding of land.

1953-55-302; 1959-107-17; 1962-82-10; 1988-67-1; 1997-25-178; 2016-5-38; 2023-16-24.