{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003169",
 "municipality": "Yarmouth",
 "status_type": "District municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "Nova Scotia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "https://munyarmouth.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Dog By-law D-048-22",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2023-02-22",
   "document_url": "https://munyarmouth.ca/government/by-laws/14-dog-by-law/file",
   "summary": "Provides for the regulation, control, restriction, keeping and licensing of dogs in the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth.",
   "capture_sha256": "d264df723b4aebe3c5836d20eb679f264f74e9cd6e710d19da7617c9e64ae022",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-05T05:14:55+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/d264df723b4aebe3c5836d20eb679f264f74e9cd6e710d19da7617c9e64ae022.pdf",
   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "leash_rule": "Any dog off owner's premises without continuous restraint or control of a person is deemed running at large",
    "fine_range": "not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars and not more than one thousand ($1000.00) dollars"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "s. 3.1",
    "leash_rule": "s. 4.1",
    "fine_range": "s. 11.1"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/yarmouth-district-municipality/animal-control/text-d264df723b4a/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/yarmouth-district-municipality/animal-control/"
}