{
 "answer": "The District Municipality of Oak Bay, British Columbia has 1 adopted bylaw on file: Animal Control Bylaw No. 4013 (Poultry and Bees sections), verified 2026-08-28.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-000094",
 "municipality": "Oak Bay",
 "status_type": "District Municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "British Columbia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "backyard_animals",
 "label": "Backyard hens & livestock",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-08-28",
 "official_website": "https://www.oakbay.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Animal Control Bylaw No. 4013 (Poultry and Bees sections)",
   "category": "backyard_animals",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.oakbay.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/4013-Animal-Control-Bylaw.pdf",
   "summary": "Allows up to 5 poultry (10 on larger parcels), 6+ months old, kept by the resident owner in a registered coop with min. 0.37 sq m floor area each; separate section requires a permit for beekeeping.",
   "discovered_by": "bc-newcats",
   "discovered_at": "2026-08-28",
   "capture_sha256": "4a1beee63abea52b1bb3cf16170113439706b2bd13abd1ad98b79ee3cf9e6e9d",
   "captured_at": "2026-08-29T03:03:43+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/4a1beee63abea52b1bb3cf16170113439706b2bd13abd1ad98b79ee3cf9e6e9d.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "transcript_url": "/ca/bc/oak-bay/backyard-hens/text-4a1beee63abe/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/bc/oak-bay/backyard-hens/"
}