{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003149",
 "municipality": "Middleton",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Nova Scotia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "business_licensing",
 "label": "Business licences & permits",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "https://www.discovermiddleton.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Licenses, General Provisions (Chapter 15)",
   "category": "business_licensing",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.discovermiddleton.ca/government/bylaws/207-licenses-general-provisions/file",
   "summary": "Regulates peddlers, hawkers, and traders in the Town of Middleton; sets licensing requirements, permit conditions, prohibited locations, and operating hours for itinerant vendors.",
   "capture_sha256": "211e9f0dcd86100d722b2b0f1028bd7a76218a91b0b7c4f488f28c2b45ca48b6",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-08T01:09:19+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/211e9f0dcd86100d722b2b0f1028bd7a76218a91b0b7c4f488f28c2b45ca48b6.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "who_must_license": "auctioneer, peddler, hawker, or trader of goods; circus or other itinerant amusement",
    "fee": "resident or ratepayer....$40.00; neither resident not a ratepayer... $80.00; amusement..$40.00; one (1) dollar",
    "renewal": "valid until the last day of December next following its issue"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "s. 2.0",
    "who_must_license": "s. 2.0; s. 5.0(1)",
    "fee": "s. 4.0; s. 5.0(2); s. 5.0(4)",
    "renewal": "s. 6.0(1)"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/middleton/business-licensing/text-211e9f0dcd86/",
   "transcript_quality": "ocr"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/middleton/business-licensing/"
}