{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003119",
 "municipality": "Vallée-des-Rivières",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "New Brunswick",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "https://vdrnb.com/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Arrêté 08-2023-VDR — Contrôle des animaux (Animal Control)",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2023-08-16",
   "document_url": "https://vdrnb.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/08-2023-VDR-Arrete-Controle-des-animaux.pdf",
   "summary": "Bilingual animal control by-law for the Town of Vallée-des-Rivières; repeals St-Léonard by-law 26-2013-E. First/second reading 19 July 2023, third reading and enactment 16 August 2023 (confirmed by OCR of signature page).",
   "capture_sha256": "bd73f51aa588db38cb0245286230228cf2da7aa7048d6c222d851404e7238473",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-07T16:30:53+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/bd73f51aa588db38cb0245286230228cf2da7aa7048d6c222d851404e7238473.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "licence_fee": "$20 for the life of the animal; $10 replacement fee for a lost tag",
    "leash_rule": "Dogs must be on a leash of 2 metres or less and under owner control in public; no animal permitted running at large",
    "fine_range": "$250 for 1st offence; $500 for 2nd offence; $1,000 for 3rd and each subsequent offence; court fine not to exceed maximum under Category D offence (Provincial Offences Procedures Act)"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "s. 4(1)",
    "licence_fee": "s. 4(2)(a) and s. 4(2)(b)",
    "leash_rule": "s. 5(5) and s. 2(g)",
    "fine_range": "s. 11(2) and s. 10(1)"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/nb/vallee-des-rivieres/animal-control/text-bd73f51aa588/",
   "transcript_quality": "ocr"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/nb/vallee-des-rivieres/animal-control/"
}