Residents are advised to watch out for Graffiti occurring in the community. Garages, Fences and Mailboxes along Sacramento Dr. were vandalised overnight Friday Jan 29. If you observed this or if you see a crime or vandalism in progress please call the non-emergency police line immediately at 403-266-1234. You can also report crime on-line at the Citizen Online Police Report System.
Graffiti is enforced under the Community Standards Bylaw 5M2004 
(68 KB) section 19. This page will provide an overview of these regulations, but please refer to the actual bylaw for more detailed information. Original copies of the bylaw are available at the City Clerk’s office.
What is the law?
- Graffiti includes words, figures, letters, drawings or stickers applied, scribbled, scratched, etched, sprayed or attached on or to a surface.
- Applying graffiti is illegal.
- Property owners shall ensure that graffiti placed on their premises is removed, painted over, or otherwise permanently blocked from public view.
Want to do more?
- As a citizen, you can help manage graffiti where you live by recording, reporting and removing the graffiti.
- You can inform the younger members of your household about the impacts of graffiti by visiting the Think Responsibly
website. - If you become a victim of graffiti, you can take advantage of the Private Graffiti Abatement Program.
- You can organize a one-hour graffiti awareness workshop or even a community cleanup by contacting our Manager of Community Relations, Rick Haddow, by e-mail or by calling 403-268-3656.
Have a complaint?
Fines for contraventions of these regulations range between $150 for failure to remove graffiti and $5,000 for applying graffiti. If you would like to report graffiti, please:
- If the graffiti is in progress, call 9-1-1.
- If the graffiti is not in progress, call 3-1-1 or 403-268-CITY (2489) – if calling from outside Calgary; or
- Contact us