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 "municipality_id": "gx-003136",
 "municipality": "Cumberland",
 "status_type": "County municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "Nova Scotia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "https://www.cumberlandcounty.ns.ca/",
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   "title": "Open Air Burning By-Law 21-06",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2021-12-22",
   "document_url": "https://www.cumberlandcounty.ns.ca/government/by-laws/62-open-air-burning-by-law-12-02/file.html",
   "summary": "Prohibits hazardous open air fires and prevents nuisance from open burning in densely populated areas of the Municipality of the County of Cumberland. Final reading December 22, 2021.",
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   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "permit_issuer": "Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources (provincial Burning Permit); fire chief may extinguish non-compliant fires",
    "allowed_conditions": "Open air fire permitted only with a valid NS DNR Burning Permit (fire >=30m from adjacent properties, authorized, attended, suppression accessible) or specified exceptions: campfires (<=75cm wide >=9m from dwellings, or <=120cm wide >=30m), recreational outdoor wood burning appliances, agricultural/training/distress fires",
    "fine_range": "$200-$10,000; plus $500 if a fire department is dispatched; $100 payment in lieu within 14 days"
   },
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    "permit_required": "s. 5(a)",
    "permit_issuer": "s. 5(a); s. 6",
    "allowed_conditions": "s. 5",
    "fine_range": "s. 7; s. 9; s. 8"
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  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Outdoor Wood Burning Appliances By-Law 06-12",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2006-11-22",
   "document_url": "https://www.cumberlandcounty.ns.ca/government/by-laws/24-2006-12-outdoor-wood-burning-appliances/file.html",
   "summary": "Regulates outdoor wood burning appliances (e.g. outdoor furnaces) in the Municipality of the County of Cumberland. Final reading November 22, 2006.",
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   "facts": {
    "allowed_conditions": "Outdoor wood burning appliance may be installed/operated only if not prohibited by the Land Use By-Law, located >=100m from any occupied building on other property (or with written consent), 5m clearance all directions, manufacturer instructions followed, not on a wooden deck/combustible platform",
    "fine_range": "$200-$5,000 per offence; $100 payment in lieu within 14 days"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "allowed_conditions": "s. 5",
    "fine_range": "s. 8; s. 9"
   },
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}