{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003149",
 "municipality": "Middleton",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Nova Scotia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "https://www.discovermiddleton.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Public Safety (No. 213) — Chapter 18",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2011-05-02",
   "document_url": "https://www.discovermiddleton.ca/government/bylaws/213-public-safety/file",
   "summary": "Town of Middleton Public Safety Bylaw (Chapter 18). Despite the title, the substance regulates open burning: waste-burning prohibitions, outdoor wood furnaces, burn permits issued by the Fire Chief, and fire-department reporting. Latest council adoption May 2, 2011.",
   "capture_sha256": "f66fb27f5ea7c506428c766f623ccfe7a7c430425dc2d155af0e4086bb478824",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-05T05:14:55+00:00",
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   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/f66fb27f5ea7c506428c766f623ccfe7a7c430425dc2d155af0e4086bb478824.pdf",
   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "permit_issuer": "Fire Chief or appointed officer",
    "allowed_conditions": "No burning of waste resources except brush, tree limbs, milled wood without a written permit; no burning permitted between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. (permit); outdoor wood furnaces prohibited",
    "fine_range": "$100-$5,000"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_required": "s. 2",
    "permit_issuer": "s. 2",
    "allowed_conditions": "s. 2; s. 3; Burning Permit condition (e)",
    "fine_range": "s. 11"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/middleton/open-burning/text-f66fb27f5ea7/",
   "transcript_quality": "ocr"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/middleton/open-burning/"
}