{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003154",
 "municipality": "Pictou",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Nova Scotia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "water_sewer",
 "label": "Water & sewer",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "https://www.townofpictou.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Public Sewers By-Law",
   "category": "water_sewer",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://townofpictou.ca/59-public-sewers-by-law/file",
   "summary": "Governs connections to and use of the Town of Pictou public sewer system (consolidates earlier sewer frontage/collection charge by-laws).",
   "capture_sha256": "85efd0a87c1b8ed018274db56d6c875b2e1b56e6b7efddf50bf7805fafb9d46e",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-05T05:14:55+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/85efd0a87c1b8ed018274db56d6c875b2e1b56e6b7efddf50bf7805fafb9d46e.pdf",
   "facts": {
    "connection_mandatory": true,
    "billing_basis": "Sewer capital charge by service equivalents (one per single-user property of up to 5 units) amortized over 15 years per Schedule B; annual sewer operating charge by service equivalents or by metered potable water usage (method selected by Council)"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "connection_mandatory": "s. 4",
    "billing_basis": "s. 28-30; s. 42"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/pictou-town/water-sewer/text-85efd0a87c1b/",
   "transcript_quality": "ocr"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/pictou-town/water-sewer/"
}