{
 "municipality_id": "gx-000344",
 "municipality": "Medicine Hat",
 "status_type": "City",
 "jurisdiction": "Alberta",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-08",
 "official_website": "http://www.medicinehat.ca",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Responsible Animal Ownership Bylaw No. 3935",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2010-08-17",
   "document_url": "https://www.medicinehat.ca/media/lypdtwny/3935.pdf",
   "summary": "Comprehensive consolidation regulating animals and activities related to them within the City of Medicine Hat; passed August 17, 2010.",
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   "captured_at": "2026-06-08T18:48:41+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/1ff98d1c112224e338309500e1500aa13823aab74a209fec8da12b9bdcac8d07.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "licence_fee": "One Time $150.00/$80.00; Yearly $15.00/$50.00/$150.00/$500.00; Tag $5.00",
    "leash_rule": "Animal must not Run at Large; defined as not under control by Leash on public property.",
    "max_animals": "3 dogs and 6 cats aged 6 months or more",
    "fine_range": "not less than minimum in Schedule \"D\" to $10,000.00"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "s. 3(1)",
    "licence_fee": "Schedule \"A\"",
    "leash_rule": "s. 14(1); s. 2(x)",
    "max_animals": "s. 37(1)",
    "fine_range": "s. 51(1)"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ab/medicine-hat/animal-control/text-1ff98d1c1122/",
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  }
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 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ab/medicine-hat/animal-control/"
}