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BYLAW NO. 2544

A Bylaw for regulating blasting within the limits of
the Corporation of the City of Port Coquitlam

WHEREAS Council deems it advisable to reguiate blasting within the City
pursuant to the Municipal Act R.S.B.C. 1979, ac. 290;

NOW THEREFORE, the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the “ity of
Port Coquitlam, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows:
1. In this Bylaw, the following words shall have the following meanings:
"Blast" or "blasting" shall mean lighting, igniting, firing or

discharging of gunpowder, stumping powder, dynamite, gun-cotton,
nitro~glycerine, or any other explosive substance or mixture for the

purpose of moving, breaking, disturbing, loosening or splitting of

any material, substance, or thing, or for any purpose whatsoever.

"City Engineer” shall mean the person appointed to such position from
time to time and shall include any person Council designates to act
‘in his place.

2. No person shall do or carry on any blasting within the City unless such
person has first obtained a blasting permit pursuant to this bylaw.

3. Any person desiring to carry on blasting within the City shall make
application to the City Engineer for a blasting permit. No permit shall
be. issued to a person unless he first produces a valid Blasting
Certificate issued by the Workers! Compensation Board and a report from an
engineer experienced in geotechnical engineering certifying that the
blasting may be safely carried out,

4. Every applicant for a blasting permit shall pay a fee of $25.00.

5. No permit for blasting shall be issued by the City Engineer until the
applicant has piven to the City Engineer security for damage to persons
who, or whose property, may be injured by the blasting. This security
shall be in the form a public liability ar¢ property damage insurance
Satisfactory to the City, with mininum coverage of $1,000,000.00
inclusive, for loss or damage in respect of injury or death of: any person
or persons or damage to property or both from any one accident or
occurrence. |

6. The person obtaining a blasting permit shall therein indemnify and save
the City harmless from and against any legal actions or claims of any kind
and description whatsoever brought against: the City for or on account of
any injury or damage to person or property, received or sustained by any
person oF persons, on account of work done under the blasting permit.

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