{
 "answer": "St. Mary's, Nova Scotia has no building permits bylaw on record as of 2026-10-18. Page says building and related permits are issued by the Building and Fire Inspection Department at the Guysborough municipal office (shared planning with Guysborough); permit required for all construction; buildings under 9.2 sq m exempt from building permit.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-003160",
 "municipality": "St. Mary's",
 "status_type": "District municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "Nova Scotia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "building_permits",
 "label": "Building permits",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
 "official_website": "http://www.saint-marys.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": false,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Building, Planning & Development (District of St. Mary's)",
   "category": "building_permits",
   "document_type": "other",
   "status": "n/a",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.saint-marys.ca/building-planning-and-development.html",
   "summary": "Page says building and related permits are issued by the Building and Fire Inspection Department at the Guysborough municipal office (shared planning with Guysborough); permit required for all construction; buildings under 9.2 sq m exempt from building permit.",
   "discovered_by": "atl-building",
   "discovered_at": "2026-10-14",
   "capture_sha256": "308ad008b8d8d02e7c20fd0d58e9e7ae760041ef9b9135e7394a621ff053604c",
   "captured_at": "2026-10-15T03:14:23+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/308ad008b8d8d02e7c20fd0d58e9e7ae760041ef9b9135e7394a621ff053604c.html",
   "link_dead": false,
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/st-mary-s/building-permits/building-planning-development/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/st-mary-s/building-permits/"
}