{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003139",
 "municipality": "East Hants",
 "status_type": "District municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "Nova Scotia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "noise",
 "label": "Noise & nuisance",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "https://www.easthants.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Community Standards Bylaw P-100 (amended by P-100-1)",
   "category": "noise",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2021-03-24",
   "document_url": "https://www.easthants.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Bylaw-P-100-Community-Standards-Bylaw-approved-March-2021.pdf",
   "summary": "Municipality of East Hants nuisance-control bylaw governing noise quiet hours, PA systems, construction, and equipment noise. Original P-100 second reading Sept 24, 2014; amendment P-100-1 passed by Council March 24, 2021.",
   "capture_sha256": "6613d46dadb32dc61b0d449eb87f1c6db61f0740fd1ee469c7b3987deb9d6e01",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-05T05:14:55+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/6613d46dadb32dc61b0d449eb87f1c6db61f0740fd1ee469c7b3987deb9d6e01.pdf",
   "facts": {
    "quiet_hours": "Nighttime: from 9:30 P.M. (Weekday) or 8:30 P.M. (Weekend/Holiday/Remembrance Day) to 7:00 A.M. (Weekday) or 9:00 A.M. (Weekend/Holiday/Remembrance Day)",
    "construction_hours": "Construction prohibited during Nighttime; permitted during Daytime in Residential Developments (Daytime 7:00 A.M.-9:30 P.M. weekday, 9:00 A.M.-8:30 P.M. weekend)",
    "exemptions": "agricultural practices; emergency vehicles; street/utility work; activities authorized by Canada/NS; activity on a water body; reasonable commercial noise on properly zoned property",
    "fine_range": "not less than $150 and not more than $10,000.00; $150 (or $300/$600 for repeat) payment in lieu"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "quiet_hours": "s. 3(j)",
    "construction_hours": "ss. 7.3.1, 10.2.1",
    "exemptions": "s. 10.1",
    "fine_range": "ss. 11.2-11.3"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/east-hants/noise/text-6613d46dadb3/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/east-hants/noise/"
}