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McGill Style Guide (10th ed).

By-Laws

Follow the order of information, punctuation, and capitalization in the examples below. See section 2.7 of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (10th ed.) for complete rules on citing municipal by-laws.

Municipality, by-law/revised by-law Number, Title in Italics (Day Month Year), PinPoint.

Examples

City of Brampton, by-law No 13-2022, To amend By-law 308-2012, being the "Building Division Appointment By-law", s n.

City of Toronto, revised by-law No 70-2014, To Amend Former City of North York Zoning By-Law No. 7625, as amended, with respect to lands municipally known as 2205, 2225, 2235 and 2255 Sheppard Avenue East. (OMB), s n.

Your professor may have different citing expectations than library staff. Always check at the beginning of term and before starting assignments that the citing rules you are using are appropriate for your class.

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