Can a municipality be held liable for not enforcing a bylaw violation?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Anmore Development Corp. v. The City of Burnaby et al, 2005 BCSC 1477 (CanLII):
Further, a municipality cannot be held liable for not enforcing a bylaw violation unless it does so in bad faith: See Dusevic v. Columbia Shuswap (Regional District) (1989), 44 M.P.L.R. 160 (B.C.S.C.) at p. 169.
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