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Bylaw Enforcement

Res #: 8-25A
Number: 8
Year: 2025
Midterm: No
Expired: No
Responses Received: No
Departments: Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice and Attorney General, Saskatchewan Ministry of Corrections, Public Safety and Policing

WHEREAS breach of a bylaw is becoming more prevalent.

WHEREAS summary conviction can be a costly and lengthy process.

WHEREAS enforcement of bylaws is difficult unless a voluntary resolution is reached.

WHEREAS there are only 2 bylaw courts in Saskatchewan for which a municipality must register to be heard.

BE IT RESOLVED that SARM lobby the Ministry of Justice to expand municipalities’ abilities to enforce bylaws by increasing ways to obtain a summary conviction.