{
 "answer": "The City of Victoria, British Columbia has 1 adopted bylaw on file: Animal Responsibility Bylaw No. 11-044 (Consolidated), verified 2026-08-28.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-000151",
 "municipality": "Victoria",
 "status_type": "City",
 "jurisdiction": "British Columbia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "backyard_animals",
 "label": "Backyard hens & livestock",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-08-28",
 "official_website": "https://www.victoria.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Animal Responsibility Bylaw No. 11-044 (Consolidated)",
   "category": "backyard_animals",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2011-10-27",
   "document_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/animal-responsibility-bylaw-consolidated-11-044",
   "summary": "Chickens may be kept only on the resident owner's own lot; caps chickens/other poultry at 15 female birds per lot (no explicit rooster ban); limits rabbits/guinea pigs to 4 per lot; beekeeping is exempt from the private-land consent rule.",
   "discovered_by": "bc-newcats",
   "discovered_at": "2026-08-28",
   "capture_sha256": "c3d35846db3f580d82698378e473646a2848a1f3f838541d079ecbb36a5bcf7d",
   "captured_at": "2026-08-29T03:03:43+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/c3d35846db3f580d82698378e473646a2848a1f3f838541d079ecbb36a5bcf7d.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "transcript_url": "/ca/bc/victoria/backyard-hens/text-c3d35846db3f/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/bc/victoria/backyard-hens/"
}