Windsor By-law 148-2025, s. 29 — or 34.5 of the Ontario Heritage Act

or 34.5 of the Ontario Heritage Act.

PERSON includes any individual, an owner, occupant, agent, contractor, tenant, firm, proprietorship, partnership, association, syndicate, trust, corporation, department, bureau or mortgagee. PRIVATE SEWAGE CONNECTION means the part of a private sewer system which connects private property to a municipal sewer system and includes:

• the tee or tap into the municipal sewer, the entire later al from the municipal sewer to 3 feet (1.0 metres) inside the building including the cleanout tee fitting, the riser and cap/cast iron cover or sampling manhole with cast iron frame and cover;
• but does not include storm drainage or storm connections. PRIVATE SEWAGE SYSTEM means a system contained on private property consisting of a septic tank, treatment unit and/or leaching bed system servicing a building(s) located wholly within the boundaries of the lot or parcel of land. PROPERTY means a building or structure or part of a building or structure and includes the lands and premises appurtenant thereto and all mobile homes, mobile buildings, mobile structures, outbuildings, retaining walls, fences and erections thereon, whether heretofore or hereafter erected, and includes vacant land. REAR YARD DRAIN means a drainage system located in the backyard of a property designed to collect and redirect excess rainwater. REPAIR includes the provision of facilities, the making of additions or alterations or the taking of any other action that may be required to ensure that the property conforms to the standards established in this by-law to the satisfaction of the Officer. RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY means a building or structure or part of a building or structure that is used or designed for use as a domestic establishment in which one or more persons usually sleep and prepare and serve meals, and includes the land and premises appurtenant thereto and all mobile buildings or structures, outbuildings, retaining walls, fences and erections thereon, whether heretofore or hereafter erected. SAFE CONDITION means a condition that does not pose or constitute a hazard or risk to life, limb or health of any person on or about the property, and includes a structurally sound condition. SERVICE ROOM means a room provided in a building to contain equipment associated with building services. SEWAGE means any liquid waste containing animal, vegetable or mineral matter in suspension or solution, but does not include storm water. SEWAGE SYSTEM means the City of Windsor’s system of storm sewers, sanitary sewers and combined sewers, or a private sewage disposal system approved by the Chief Building Official within the City. STOREY means that part of a building between any floor and the floor, ceili ng or roof next above. Any part of a storey exceeding 4.0 metres in height is deemed to be an additional storey for each 4.0 metres, or fraction thereof, of such excess. A cellar and that part of a building located entirely within a sloping roof and havi ng a ceiling height greater than 2.0 metres over

a floor area less than 50.0 percent of the area of the floor next below, is not a storey. STORM WATER means discharge from a surface as a result of rainfall, snow melt and snow fall. STORM WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM means an infrastructure designed to manage the runoff of rainwater, including drains, pipes, detention basins, storage facilities and other components. SUITE means a single room or series of rooms of complementary use, operated under a single tenancy, and includes dwelling units, boarding houses, rooming houses and dormitories as well as individual stores and individual or complementary rooms for business and personal services occupancies. TSSA means Technical Standards and Safety Act, 2000, S.O. 2000, c. 16. UNSAFE CONDITION means any condition that could b e h a z a r d o u s t o the health or safety of any person authorized or unauthorized on or about the property. USER FEE SCHEDULE BY-LAW means a by-law to establish and require the payment of fees and charges. VACANT BUILDING shall mean a building which is neither used nor occupied by the owner or a tenant under a signed tenancy/lease agreement, for a period of more than 182 days. WIRING means the installation of any wiring in or upon any land building, or premises from the point or points where electric power or energy is delivered therein or thereon by the supply authority or from the points where electric power or energy can be used therein or thereon by any electrical equipment and shall include the connection of any such wiring with any of the said equipment and any part of the wiring aforesaid and shall also include the maintenance, alteration, extension and repair of such wiring. YARD means an open space, which is located on the same lot as a building or other structure and is unoccupied and unobstructed from ground to sky

except for any encroachments not prohibited by the City Zoning By-law.