Decourcy Island Zoning Bylaw No. 44

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DECOURCY ISLAND 
 
 
ZONING BYLAW NO. 44 
 
 
 
AS AMENDED BY THE GABRIOLA ISLAND LOCAL TRUST COMMITTEE  
BYLAWS:  192 and 242 
 
 
 
 
 
NOTE:  Certified copies of the Zoning Bylaw are available from the Islands Trust Office  
 
 
 
 
Consolidated January, 2008 
 
 
 

 
 
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CONSOLIDATED BYLAW TEXT AMENDMENTS 
 
This copy is consolidated for convenience only and includes the following text amendments 
only: 
 
Bylaw Number 
  Amendment Number    Adoption Date 
 
Bylaw No. 192     Amendment No. 1, 2001   July 18, 2001 
Bylaw No. 242     Amendment No. 1, 2007   Sept. 7, 2007 

 
 
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GABRIOLA ISLAND TRUST COMMITTEE 
BYLAW NO. 44 
 
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A BYLAW TO DIVIDE DECOURCY ISLAND INTO ZONES AND TO REGULATE THE USE OF 
LAND INCLUDING THE SURFACE OF WATER AND THE LOCATION, SIZE AND USE OF 
BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES 
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The Gabriola Island Trust Committee being the Trust having jurisdiction on and in respect to 
DeCourcy Island in the Province of British Columbia, pursuant to the Islands Trust Act, R.S.B.C., 
1979, Chapter 208, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows: 
 
I. DeCourcy Island Zoning Bylaw
 
 
 
SECTION 1
 
 
ADMINISTRATION
 
 
1.1 General
 
 
(a) This Bylaw shall be applicable to DeCourcy Island, as shown on Schedule “A”, 
attached to and forming part of this Bylaw. 
 
(b) This Bylaw may be cited as “DeCourcy Island Zoning Bylaw, 1987”. 
 
1.2 Zones
 
 
(a) The area covered by this Bylaw has been divided into the following zones, the 
boundaries of which are shown on Schedule “A”: 
 
                          SR             Settlement             Residential             
 
                          R             Rural             
 
                          PR             Public             Recreation             
 
                          W-1             Water             General             
 
                          W-2             Mariculture             
 
(b) The boundary between water and land zones shall be the surveyed high water 
mark as shown on a plan registered in the Land Title Office, or where there is no 
registered survey plan, shall be the natural boundary of the sea. 
 
1.3 Violation
 
 
No building or structure shall be sited, used, constructed, moved, or altered, except in 
conformity with this Bylaw and no land or surface of water shall be used or occupied, 
except in conformity with this Bylaw. 

 
 
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1.4  Penalty
 
 
(a) Any person who violates the provisions of this Bylaw is liable on summary 
conviction to a penalty not exceeding five hundred (500) dollars for each day the 
violation continues plus prosecution costs. 
 
(b) The Islands Trust may seek a court order to authorize the demolition, removal or 
the bringing up to standard of any building, structure or thing, in

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