{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003119",
 "municipality": "Vallée-des-Rivières",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "New Brunswick",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "https://vdrnb.com/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Arrêté 10-2025-VDR — Feux extérieurs (Outdoor/Open Fires)",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2025-11-19",
   "document_url": "https://vdrnb.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/10-2025-VDR_12012025103954.pdf",
   "summary": "Outdoor/open fires by-law for Vallée-des-Rivières. First/second reading 15 October 2025, third reading and enactment 19 November 2025 (confirmed by OCR of the bilingual signature page).",
   "capture_sha256": "15280e921d49791c1461d53dd70d3aec8103c9bea206c90c9a77333bf353d4a9",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-07T16:30:53+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/15280e921d49791c1461d53dd70d3aec8103c9bea206c90c9a77333bf353d4a9.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "permit_issuer": "Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development",
    "allowed_conditions": "Category 1 fires not prohibited by NB Forest Fire Watch; in former LSDs, open fires with provincial permit; in former municipal limits, outdoor fireplace only.",
    "fine_range": "$140–$2,100 (offence); $1,500 administrative penalty during burn ban"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_required": "s. 4(6): \"a burning permit must be obtained from the Department of Natural Resources\"",
    "permit_issuer": "s. 4(6): \"obtained from the Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development\"",
    "allowed_conditions": "s. 4(2); s. 4(4)(a); s. 4(6)",
    "fine_range": "s. 8(1): \"minimum of one hundred and forty dollars ($140) and a maximum fine of two thousand one hundred dollars ($2,100)\"; s. 9(2): \"administrative penalty of $1,500\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/nb/vallee-des-rivieres/open-burning/text-15280e921d49/",
   "transcript_quality": "ocr"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/nb/vallee-des-rivieres/open-burning/"
}