Trespass to Property Act of Ontario (1 of 2)

Trespass to Property Act of Ontario is a provincial law in Ontario dealing with illegal entry into private and public property. As a provincial law, the penalties and mechanisms of enforcement are also provincial.

This law is most often used by private property owners to keep unwanted individuals off their property. There are many methods of notifying unwanted individuals that they have been banned from future access to their property. The most common method is a personal notice to the offender or posting a sign in writing on the property.