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43202.02 – By-law enforcement officers

By-law enforcement officers enforce municipal and provincial regulations.

Overview

Example job titles

  • By-law enforcement officer
  • Property standards inspector

Core competencies

  • Critical Thinking and Decision Making to evaluate the nuances of each case while ensuring appropriate measures are taken to address violations and enforce regulations fairly and effectively
  • Monitoring to maintain oversight, follow up on enforcement actions and ensure regulations are consistently upheld
  • Problem Identification and Deductive Reasoning to recognize violations or discrepancies, connect evidence and make logical conclusions about the nature of the violations and appropriate actions to take
  • Speech Recognition to gather information, conduct interviews and listen to concerns regarding by-law compliance
  • Independence to judge situations, conduct inspections, issue citations and resolve compliance issues without immediate support
  • Knowledge in Law to identify violations and apply the appropriate penalties or corrective actions within legal boundaries to protect the rights of individuals and the integrity of the enforcement process

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • Enforce municipal and provincial regulations
  • Investigate complaints
  • Issue warnings and citations to commercial and residential property owners and occupants.

Additional information

  • By-law enforcement officers may specialize in the enforcement of one specific by-law.

Similar occupations classified elsewhere

Exclusions:

  • Employment insurance and revenue officers (12104)
  • Occupational health and safety specialists (22232)
  • Police officers (except commissioned) (42100)
  • Sheriffs and bailiffs (43200)

NOC hierarchy breakdown

NOC version

NOC 2021 Version 1.0

Broad occupational category

4 – Occupations in education, law and social, community and government services

TEER

3 – Occupations usually require a college diploma or apprenticeship training of less than two years; or more than six months of on-the-job training

Major group

43 – Assisting occupations in education and in legal and public protection

Sub-major group

432 – Assisting occupations in legal and public protection

Minor group

4320 – Assisting occupations in legal and public protection

Unit group

43202 – By-law enforcement and other regulatory officers

Occupational profile

43202.02 – By-law enforcement officers

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