Do I need a permit to place a dumpster in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel?
Not for the dumpster itself, if it sits entirely on your land. We word it carefully because the conclusion comes from an absence of provision: a full-text search on August 21, 2026 finds no occurrence of the word “conteneur” in zoning by-law 290-06 (143 pages) or in by-law 297-07 on permits and certificates (33 pages), and the closed list of certificates of authorization — work along watercourses, septic installation, landslide-prone areas — covers no such case. No public-domain occupancy fee exists either. The job site, however, often does need a permit, and the municipality asks that it be applied for 30 days before work begins. In doubt? Mr. Xavier Rajotte, building inspector, 450 782-3111 extension 223.
Can I have the dumpster placed at the edge of the rang, in front of my house?
No — and not because a by-law names it: because none allows it and three point the other way. By-law RM-2017 counts “the excess right-of-way of the public road” among public places, makes it a nuisance to “obstruct, in any manner whatsoever, a public place” (s. 6.1.7), prohibits “obstructing or hindering the passage of pedestrians, cyclists or vehicles” in a public place (s. 7.1.10), and forbids depositing “any other material, whatever its origin” in a road right-of-way, in municipal ditches and watercourses (s. 6.1.6). No temporary occupancy permit exists to cover any of that. So the spot is in your driveway or on your lot — that is where we deliver.
Is it true that job site debris must be in a dumpster?
Yes, and it is written in plain terms. Section 6.1.9 f) of by-law RM-2017 makes it a nuisance to leave on a lot “construction debris such as boards, pipes, electrical equipment, bricks, stones, nails, steel, asphalt shingles, vinyl and other similar materials, anywhere other than in a container provided for that purpose”. Subsection e) completes it: wood, stone, metal, brick, soil, sand and gravel are tolerated only “during construction or renovation work that is under way, and for the duration of that work”. In other words, during the job loose material passes; afterwards it does not — and debris never had any compliant home other than the dumpster. The fine is $125 for an individual and $250 for a corporation, and each day counts as a separate offence.
Can the regional drop-off centre replace a dumpster?
For a job site, no — and Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel has no drop-off centre of its own: the service belongs to the Pierre-De Saurel regional county, outside the territory, as a round trip you make yourself. Three rules settle it: “no material from commercial businesses is accepted”, “the use of wheeled bins is prohibited at the drop-off centre, even to make transporting materials easier”, and “sorting materials on site is mandatory”. Access “may exceptionally be limited or refused” when maximum capacity is reached, and no volume quota is published — which is not the same as unlimited. The arithmetic is quick: a 10 cubic yard box holds 7.6 m³, a 20 yard 15.3 m³, a 40 yard 30.6 m³, all to be loaded, hauled and unloaded by hand.
I am a contractor or a farm operator: where do my debris go?
Into a private dumpster, and it is the regional county itself that says so. Its page for businesses recalls that each industrial, commercial or institutional establishment “is entitled to one garbage bin per occupancy unit” and that, as soon as quantities call for “a container collected on your property”, “owners must reach an agreement with a collector of their choice”. The regional drop-off centre is closed to you: “no material from commercial businesses is accepted”, and the municipality repeats it in its own words. For a farm operation, by-law RM-2017 states that its nuisance provisions “do not apply to […] agricultural activities carried out in accordance with the municipality's planning by-laws”: that is context, not an exemption from disposing of the debris of a building renovation. One call to 514 708-2424 settles the size and the rotation.
Can I leave my car on the street while the dumpster is in the driveway?
Outside winter, no by-law found prohibits parking generally on Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel's public roads: section 5.1.3 of by-law RM-2017 prohibits it only “where signage or parking meters indicate such a prohibition”, and schedule A, which is supposed to list those places, is not attached to the published by-law. From November 15 to April 15, however, parking or standing a vehicle on a public road is prohibited between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m., across the whole territory, on pain of a $30 fine plus costs. Beware one outdated source: old by-law RM-330, still online, announced a ban across the entire territory out to 7 a.m. — it is repealed by section 9.1.1 of RM-2017. Trust the signage on the ground, and the night window.
What hours can I work, and when can you deliver?
A single window, and a simple one: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week. By-law RM-2017 makes it a nuisance to “carry out, between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m., construction, demolition or repair work on a building” and to use in the same hours “a lawnmower, a machine or an instrument fitted with an electric or gasoline engine” heard by neighbours, except for emergency work (s. 6.1.5). There is no separate weekend schedule, unlike several suburban cities — that is a real bit of flexibility. We plan delivery and pickup inside that same window, and we do not let the engine run: 3 minutes per hour for the engine of a stopped vehicle, 5 minutes for the diesel engine of a heavy vehicle (s. 6.1.11).
My address is on a rang — is that a problem for the truck?
No, but it changes the questions we ask. Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel publishes no neighbourhood names: its place names are rangs and roads — Rang Sud, Rang Nord, Rang Prescott, Rang Pot-au-Beurre, Chemin des Patriotes (Route 133), Montée Sainte-Victoire (Route 239) — across 75 km². Before setting out we ask what your driveway crosses the ditch on, how wide the access really is, and where the wires and branches run, because a loaded truck does not improvise a manoeuvre on arrival. We do not use the shoulder: the municipality's four cycling routes are the paved shoulders themselves, and the by-law prohibits hindering cyclists there. The box comes down on your land, on its PROTEC-O-SOL planks.