{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003143",
 "municipality": "Kentville",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Nova Scotia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "http://www.town.kentville.ns.ca",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "CH70 — Animal Control Bylaw (Consolidated)",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://kentville.ca/sites/default/files/town-files/2023-01/CH%2070%20Animal%20Control%20Bylaw%20-%20Consolidated%20FINAL%20SIGNED.pdf",
   "summary": "Consolidated Animal Control By-law (Chapter 70) for the Town of Kentville, incorporating the 2022 amending bylaw. Governs control of animals, licensing, and animal control officers.",
   "capture_sha256": "bb80d99a17309f99f200114d0f6c709b8d36e9e737faf338bf456323b975bd6d",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-05T05:14:55+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/bb80d99a17309f99f200114d0f6c709b8d36e9e737faf338bf456323b975bd6d.pdf",
   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "licence_fee": "Dog Registration Fee set in Policy Statement G33 / by Policy of Council (amount not stated in bylaw); may differ by sex and spay/neuter status",
    "leash_rule": "Animal runs at large when off owner's property without apparent restraint or control, or tethered able to leave property, or on signed property contrary to restriction",
    "max_animals": "No more than three Dogs may be kept on any property; chickens limited to maximum ten (10)",
    "fine_range": "not less than $150.00 and not more than $10,000.00; attack offences $350.00-$10,000.00"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "s. 3(1)",
    "licence_fee": "Definition \"Dog Registration Fee\" s. 2(8)",
    "leash_rule": "s. 13",
    "max_animals": "s. 10 (three Dogs); s. 11c (ten chickens)",
    "fine_range": "s. 28(1)-(2)"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/kentville/animal-control/text-bb80d99a1730/",
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  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/kentville/animal-control/"
}