SPHERES OF CONCURRENT JURISDICTION - ENVIRONMENT AND WILDLIFE REGULATION 144/2004

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2 SPHERES OF CONCURRENT JURISDICTION - ENVIRONMENT AND WILDLIFE REGULATION 144/2004 B.C. Reg. 144/2004 [includes B.C. Reg. 235/2008 amendments (effective ust 7, 2008)] Contents 1. Definitions 2. Municipal jurisdiction in relation to the environment and wildlife SCHEDULE [Provisions of the Community Charter, SBC 2003, c. 26, relevant to the enactment of this regulation: section 9] (ADD) (SUB) Nov 04/05 (AM) (AM) Nov 04/05 Definitions 1. In this Act: "Act" means the Community Charter; "alien invasive species" means the species listed in sections 1 and 2 of the Schedule; "dangerous wildlife" has the same meaning as in the Wildlife Act; "excluded pesticide" has the same meaning as in the Integrated Pest Management Regulation, B.C. Reg. 604/2004. [am. B.C. Regs. 326/2005; 235/2008.] Municipal jurisdiction in relation to the environment and wildlife 2. (1) For the purposes of section 9 (4) (a) (i) of the Act, a municipality may, (a) (b) under section 8 (3) (j) of the Act, regulate, prohibit and impose requirements in relation to polluting or obstructing, or impeding the flow of, a stream, creek, waterway, watercourse, waterworks, ditch, drain or sewer, whether or not it is located on private property, regulate, prohibit and impose requirements in relation to, (i) under section 8 (3) (j) of the Act, the sale of wild flowers, (ii) subject to subsection (2), under section 8 (3) (j) of the Act, the application of pesticides, except excluded pesticides, for the purpose of maintaining outdoor trees, shrubs, flowers, other ornamental plants and turf on a parcel or a part of a parcel if the parcel or part is used for residential purposes, or on land vested in the municipality, B.C. Reg. 144/2004 Page 2 of 7 Quickscribe Services Ltd.

3 (ADD) (ADD) (iii) under section 8 (3) (j) and (k) of the Act, the control and eradication of alien invasive species, and (iv) under section 8 (3) (k) of the Act, the control of wildlife species listed in Schedule B or C to the Designation and Exemption Regulation, B.C. Reg. 168/90, and (c) under section 8 (3) (k) of the Act, regulate, prohibit and impose requirements respecting the feeding or attracting of dangerous wildlife or members of the family Cervidae. (2) For the purposes of section 9 (4) (b) of the Act, a municipality may not exercise the authority under subsection (1) (b) (ii) of this regulation in relation to the application of pesticides (a) for the management of pests that transmit human diseases or impact agriculture or forestry, (b) on the residential areas of farms, (c) to buildings or inside buildings, or (d) on land used for agriculture, forestry, transportation, public utilities or pipelines unless the public utility or pipeline is vested in the municipality. (3) For the purposes of subsection 9 (4) (b) of the Act, the exercise of the authority under subsection (1) (c) is subject to the condition that the bylaw must exempt from its application all the following: (a) a person who is engaging in hunting or trapping wildlife in accordance with the Wildlife Act and its regulations; (b) a farm operation, as defined in section 1 of the Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act, that (i) is conducted on, in or over land anywhere in British Columbia, and (ii) meets the requirements set out in section 2 (2) (a) and (c) of that Act; (c) a facility for the disposal of waste that is operated in accordance with the Environmental Management Act by a municipality, a regional district, an improvement district that has as an object the disposal of sewage or refuse or the provision of a system for the disposal of sewage or refuse or the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District. [am. B.C. Regs. 326/2005; 235/2008.] B.C. Reg. 144/2004 Page 3 of 7 Quickscribe Services Ltd.

4 SCHEDULE 1 The following species are, for the purposes of this regulation, alien invasive species. Plants Annual Sow Thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense) Common Crupina (Crupina vulgaris) Common Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) Dalmatian Toadflax (Linaria dalmatica) Diffuse Knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) Dodder (Cuscuta spp.) Gorse (Ulex europaeus) Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale) Jointed Goatgrass (Aegilops cylindrica) Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia esula) Perennial Sow Thistle (Sonchus arvensis) Purple Nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus) Rush Skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea) Scentless Chamomile (Matricaria maritima) Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) Tansy Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) Wild Oats (Avena fatua) Yellow Nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus) Yellow Starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) Terrestrial Vascular Plants Smooth brome grass Downy brome grass Orchard grass (coast) Scotch broom Spurge laurel Common barnyard grass English ivy St. John's wort Himalayan blackberry Yellow salsify Common Crupina Bull thistle Nodding thistle Giant knotweed Kudzu Japanese knotweed Giant knotweed Giant hogweed Poison hemlock Yellow toadflax B.C. Reg. 144/2004 Page 4 of 7 Quickscribe Services Ltd.

5 Carpet burweed Baby's breath Parasitic Dodder Himalayan Balsam Saltcedar Garlic Mustard Fresh Water/Riparian Vascular Plants Flowering rush Purple loosestrife Eurasian watermilfoil Common reed Curly pondweed Reed canary grass Yellow flag Hydrilla Invertebrates Gypsy Moth Blueberry Maggot Balsam Woolly Adelgid Japanese Cedar Longhorn Beetle Japanese Beetle Pine Shoot Beetle Asian Long-horned Beetle Cereal Leaf Beetle Daylily Midge European Chafer European Brown Garden Snail Oriental Fruit Moth Apple Maggot Plum Curculio Vertebrates Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) Green Frog (Rana clamitans) Rock Dove (Columba livia) European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) North American Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) Nutria (Myocastor coypu) Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) 2 The species set out in column 1 of Table 1 are, for the purposes of this regulation, alien invasive species in a regional district set out opposite in column 2. B.C. Reg. 144/2004 Page 5 of 7 Quickscribe Services Ltd.

6 Table 1 Column 1 Species Column 2 Area of the Province Blueweed (Echium vulgare) Burdock (Arctium spp.) Cleavers (Galium aparine) Common Bugloss (Anchusa officinalis) Common Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis) Green Foxtail (Setaria viridis) Hoary Alyssum (Berteroa incana) Hoary Cress (Cardaria spp.) Kochia (Kochia scoparia) Cariboo, Central Kootenay, Columbia-Shuswap, East Kootenay, Okanagan-Similkameen, Bulkley-Nechako, Cariboo, Columbia-Shuswap, Fraser-Fort George, Kitimat-Stikine, North Okanagan, Okanagan-Similkameen,, Kootenay-Boundary Bulkley-Nechako, Central Kootenay, Columbia-Shuswap, East Kootenay, North Okanagan Bulkley-Nechako, Kootenay-Boundary, Kootenay-Boundary Columbia-Shuswap, North Okanagan, Marsh Plume Thistle (Cirsium palustre) Bulkley-Nechako, Fraser-Fort George Meadow Knapweed (Centaurea pratensis) Night-flowering catchfly (Silene noctiflora) Orange Hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum) Oxeye Daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum) Perennial Pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) Plumeless Thistle (Carduus acanthoides) Puncturevine (Tribulus terrestris) Quackgrass (Agropyron repens) Columbia-Shuswap Bulkley-Nechako, Cariboo, Central Kootenay, Columbia-Shuswap, East Kootenay, Cariboo, North Okanagan,, East Kootenay, Central Kootenay Okanagan-Similkameen B.C. Reg. 144/2004 Page 6 of 7 Quickscribe Services Ltd.

7 Russian Knapweed (Acroptilon repens) Russian Thistle (Salsola kali) North Okanagan Scotch Thistle (Onopordum acanthium) North Okanagan Sulphur Cinquefoil (Potentilla recta) Tartary Buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) White Cockle (Lychnis alba) Wild Chervil (Anthriscus sylvestris) Wild Mustard (Sinapsis arvensis) Colombia-Shuswap, North Okanagan, Okanagan-Similkameen, Fraser Valley [Provisions of the Community Charter, SBC 2003, c. 26, relevant to the enactment of this regulation: section 9] B.C. Reg. 144/2004 Page 7 of 7 Quickscribe Services Ltd.