{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001409",
 "municipality": "Athens",
 "status_type": "Township",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "unsightly_premises",
 "label": "Property maintenance",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-10",
 "official_website": "http://www.athenstownship.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Safe and Clean Properties By-law 2007-20",
   "category": "unsightly_premises",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2007-08-07",
   "document_url": "https://athenstownship.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Safe-Clean-Properties-Bylaw.pdf",
   "summary": "By-law to provide for safe and clean properties within the Township of Athens (refuse, debris, unsafe materials, unsightly conditions). Passed August 7, 2007.",
   "capture_sha256": "f99b8f067beb1a6de895539903cc32700b595736d1d4422693ddfc2057694691",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/f99b8f067beb1a6de895539903cc32700b595736d1d4422693ddfc2057694691.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "standards": "Properties must be kept neat, tidy, safe, consistent with surroundings, free from refuse, long grass, scrap, junk, dilapidated structures, or unsafe combustible substances.",
    "enforcement": "Officer may order compliance; municipality may enter, perform work, and recover expenses as real municipal taxes."
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "standards": "s. 3",
    "enforcement": "s. 6, s. 8"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/athens/property-maintenance/text-f99b8f067beb/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/athens/property-maintenance/"
}