The Ormstown Observer · Municipal rules
Every Ormstown bylaw the Observer has catalogued: what it covers, whether it is in force, and a link to the official document. Plain-language explainers are linked where the Observer has written one.
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Règlement 8-2024
In force, amendedBylaw 8-2024, adopted January 15, 2024 and retroactive to January 1, 2024, sets the pay, expense allowance and expense reimbursements of Ormstown's council. Bylaw 8-2024.1, adopted April 8, 2024, replaced the 2024 base pay first set: $36,000 a year for the mayor instead of $44,064, and $12,000 for the other members instead of $14,688.
Règlement MRC 352-2025
In forceBylaw 352-2025, adopted by the council of the MRC du Haut-Saint-Laurent on May 21, 2025 and in force since September 8, 2025, sets common rules on alarms, animals, parking, peddling, nuisances, public order, the regional bike path and pawnshops. Fines start at $75 for some parking offences, reach $10,000 for an individual under the potentially-dangerous-dog provisions, and double for a repeat offence.
Règlement 7-2021
In forceBylaw 7-2021, adopted June 7, 2021, bars trucks rated 4,500 kg or more and tool vehicles from 14 roads, and closes two bridges to vehicles over the provincial load limits. Fines run from $175 to $525 plus costs. The copy the town has posted leaves the dates of entry into force and of the transport ministry's approval blank.
Règlement 153-2023
In forceBylaw 153-2023 requires anyone asking to change the planning bylaws for zones RO-1, RO-3, RO-4, RFD-1 or RFD-5 to first file an overall development plan, prepared by an urban planner, which council grants or refuses by resolution. The copy the town has posted is an administrative codification and shows no adoption or in-force date.
Règlement 156-2023
In forceBylaw 156-2023 lets council authorize, case by case, a complementary use on a residential property or the storage, conditioning or processing of farm products in zones A and AD, where zoning does not allow it. Fines start at $1,000, and every day counts as a new offence.
Règlement 149-2023
In forceBylaw 149-2023 applies to every cadastral operation in Ormstown. It sets minimum lot sizes, standards for new streets, and a contribution of 10% of the land or its value for parks. The copy the town has posted is an administrative consolidation without official value, with no adoption or in-force date. A first draft amendment, 149.1-2026, would add seven exemptions to the parks contribution.
Règlement 150-2023
In forceBylaw 150-2023 sets minimum construction standards in Ormstown, from deadlines for damaged buildings to a ban on fortifying buildings. Fines run from $500 to $4,000.
Règlement 16-2001
In forceBylaw 16-2001, which took effect December 10, 2001, is the agreement creating an intermunicipal board (régie intermunicipale) to run the Huntingdon regional rink (Patinoire régionale de Huntingdon). Each municipality's share of costs follows its standardized population.
Règlement 6-2023
In forceBylaw 6-2023, in force since June 6, 2023, rewrites one article of Bylaw 6-2000, which set up the town's working capital fund (fonds de roulement). It does not say where the money for the increase comes from or what the fund is for, and it contains no rules on drawing on the fund or repaying it.
Règlement 99-2023
In forceBylaw 99-2023, in force since June 6, 2023, is the municipality's human resources policy, adopted as a bylaw. Any unpaid suspension or dismissal decided by the director general's office must be ratified by council.
Règlement 158-2023
In forceBylaw 158-2023, in force since June 6, 2023, lets the director general hire employees who are salariés under the Act respecting labour standards, within the budget and if funds are available. The list of people hired must be tabled at the council sitting that follows.
Règlement 130-2023
In forceBylaw 130-2023, in force since April 4, 2023, lets four officials authorize spending and contracts, up to $25,000 before taxes for the director general, if the money is in the budget.
Règlement 167-2025
In force, amendedBylaw 167-2025, in force since May 28, 2025, sets where legally required municipal notices must appear. Since June 1, 2026, under amending Bylaw 167.1-2026, the places it names are the municipal website and the exterior board at Town Hall; the post office board is no longer listed.
Règlement 62.2-2023
In forceBylaw 62.2-2023, in force since December 2023, sets the municipal 9-1-1 tax at $0.52 a month per number from January 1, 2024, indexed yearly from 2025. It sets no fines.
Règlement 103-2015
In forceBylaw 103-2015, in force since January 19, 2016, creates the municipal fire safety service. In an emergency, firefighters may enter any place affected or threatened, by force where there is serious danger, and the director or a representative may demolish a structure to stop a fire from spreading.
Règlement 154-2023
In forceBylaw 154-2023, in force since June 6, 2023, makes owners lay out and maintain, at their own cost, the unused part of the road right-of-way alongside their property. The town can take the strip back without compensation, and fines start at $300.
Règlement 93-2015
In forceBylaw 93-2015, in force since May 6, 2015, applies only to rue Lambton between rue Bridge and rue Church. A business there may use the sidewalk in front of its building without a certificate, but a terrace in a parking space needs council's approval, and a first offence carries a fixed fine of $500 for an individual or $1,000 for a company, plus costs.
Règlement 134-2021
In forceBylaw 134-2021, in force since February 2, 2021, requires owners of industrial, commercial, institutional and mixed buildings connected to the municipal water system to install a meter supplied by the town that can be read remotely. Missing the 60-day deadline after the town's notice counts as a refusal, and the offence continues every day.
Règlement 12-2025
In forceBylaw 12-2025, in force since September 1, 2025, sets a speed limit for each road it lists and makes three streets one-way. Only the Sûreté du Québec enforces it, and the bylaw prints no fine amounts: those come from the Highway Safety Code.
Règlement 39-2026
In forceBylaw 39-2026, in force since June 1, 2026, is the municipality’s price list: two annexes of numbered lines, running from 1 to 87, from a $0.50 photocopy to a $2,000 request to change a planning bylaw. Every fee is payable before the service is delivered.
Règlement 131-2026
In forceBylaw 131-2026, in force since April 17, 2026, sets the rules for keeping dogs, cats and other pets in Ormstown: a licence valid for the animal's life, conditions for keeping up to 5 hens in the urban perimeter, and separate rules for dogs that are "at risk", "potentially dangerous" or "dangerous".
Règlement 2-2026
In forceRèglement 2-2026, in force since April 17, 2026, sets the rules for Ormstown council meetings: two public question periods at every ordinary meeting, a 3-hour limit on a meeting, and a suspensive veto for the mayor that council can lift.
Règlement 80-2022
In forceBylaw 80-2022, in force since May 4, 2022, is the code of ethics and conduct for the town's employees. A breach can lead to a sanction, from a verbal notice up to dismissal.
Règlement 152-2023
In forceRèglement 152-2023 requires council's approval of a site-planning and architectural-integration plan (PIIA) for certain work in the architectural core, in the Route 201 Sud and C-7 sector and in zone R-37 (rue Isabelle), and for any detached accessory dwelling unit anywhere in the municipality. Fines run from $500 to $4,000 for each day an offence lasts.
Règlement 145-2023
In forceBylaw 145-2023, in force since August 31, 2023, prohibits demolishing a building, in whole or in part, without the authorization of a demolition committee made up of three council members. Anyone may file a written objection within 10 days of the public notice, and the fine for demolishing a principal building without authorization starts at $10,000. Annex A, the heritage inventory the bylaw refers to, reads “(en attente de la MRC du Haut-Saint-Laurent).”
Règlement 147-2023
In force, amendedBylaw 147-2023, the plan d'urbanisme, divides the territory into 11 land-use designations, sets minimum housing densities and says development is to be concentrated in the urban perimeter. It sets no fines; the zoning bylaw must respect it. The copy the town has posted shows no adoption or in-force date and does not include Bylaw 147.1-2025, adopted April 13, 2026.
Règlement 155-2023
In forceBylaw 155-2023, in force since June 6, 2023, requires a free burning permit for open fires, the municipality's authorization to use fireworks, and a smoke alarm less than 10 years old on every storey of a building. Fines start at $300.
Règlement 148-2023, ch. 12
In force, amendedOrmstown's rules on cutting and protecting trees are in chapter 12 of zoning bylaw 148-2023 and in permits bylaw 151-2023. Chapter 12 also covers shorelines, flood plains, drinking-water intakes, snow dumping and contaminated land. Felling a tree of 30 cm in diameter in contravention of the bylaw carries a fine of at least $500, plus an amount per tree or per hectare.
Règlement 86-2024
In forceRèglement 86-2024 sets the rules for using drinking water from Ormstown's distribution network: lawn-watering days by the last digit of the address, pool-filling dates by even or odd civic number, spring driveway washing between May 1 and June 15 only, and a February 1, 2027 deadline to replace air conditioning, refrigeration systems and compressors that use drinking water. Fines start at $250, and each day of a continuing offence counts as a separate offence.
Règlement 167.1-2026
In forceMunicipality can no longer use its previously designated posting location. Public notices now appear on the municipal website and the exterior bulletin board at Town Hall (5, rue Gale). No standalone explainer yet.
Règlement d'emprunt 173.1-2026
Status not verifiedAmends borrowing bylaw 173-2026 ($4,800,000 over 40 years for works on three streets). Notice of motion June 1, 2026; adopted June 15, 2026 (resolution 26-06-181); register for qualified voters held June 30, 2026.
“Not recorded” means the register has no verified value yet. It does not mean the information does not exist.