Increased fines for short-term accommodation strata bylaws in force today
November 30, 2018
BY pods_ato_3
Back in July the ministry of municipal affairs and housing announced that it was amending the Strata Property Regulation to address concerns about short-term accommodation. These amendments have come into force today. They replace the existing section 7.1 of the regulation with a new provision that includes a special category of maximum fines for “a bylaw that prohibits or limits use of all or part of a residential strata lot for remuneration as vacation, travel or temporary accommodation.” The salient features of this category are:
- it allows for fines of up to “$1 000 for each contravention of the bylaw”; and
- it sets “the maximum frequency that a strata corporation may set out in its bylaws for the imposition of a fine for a continuing contravention of a [short-term accommodation] bylaw” at daily.
Strata corporations will have to amend their bylaws to take advantage of these new features of the law.
