Municipal Smoke-Control Bylaws
Over 130 communities and regional districts have passed their own, individualized, bylaws regulating open burning,
campfires, beach fires, backyard burning, and the kinds of materials that may be burned. For more information on municipal burning bylaws, see Inventory
of Air Quality Bylaws in British Columbia for Anti-Idling, Open Burning and Wood-Burning Appliances (PDF: 1017 KB/197 pages).
The Ministry of Environment has developed a model backyard-burning bylaw that local governments can use as the basis of their own bylaw: Model
Municipal Bylaw for Regulating Residential Backyard Burning (PDF: 2.45MB/18 pages).
For information on provincial laws related to smoke control, see Air Quality Regulatory Framework.
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