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 "municipality_id": "gx-001409",
 "municipality": "Athens",
 "status_type": "Township",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-10",
 "official_website": "http://www.athenstownship.ca/",
 "documents": [
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   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Dog By-law 00-01-03",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://athenstownship.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Dog-Bylaw.pdf",
   "summary": "By-law for the licensing, regulating and keeping of dogs for the Township of Athens and Rear of Yonge and Escott (By-law 00-01-03), in force January 1, 2001. Confirmed via OCR of scanned document; explicit passing date not legible in the text.",
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   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/176e78b9b3e8671e4c902f8777e62ad59171377f66a39a06b4b9ac5febc07be2.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "leash_rule": "No person shall allow a dog to leave the property unless on a leash not exceeding three (3) metres",
    "max_animals": "three (3) dogs",
    "fine_range": "not more that $5,000.00"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "s. 2",
    "leash_rule": "s. 17",
    "max_animals": "s. 13",
    "fine_range": "s. 41"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/athens/animal-control/text-176e78b9b3e8/",
   "transcript_quality": "ocr"
  }
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 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/athens/animal-control/"
}