{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001424",
 "municipality": "Bluewater",
 "status_type": "Municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-09",
 "official_website": "http://www.municipalityofbluewater.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Open Air Burning By-Law",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2016-04-18",
   "document_url": "https://www.municipalityofbluewater.ca/media/34fjom0p/by-law-31-2016-regulate-open-air-burning-acc.pdf",
   "summary": "Official open air burning by-law regulating burns and fire conditions within Bluewater.",
   "capture_sha256": "77073f1fa41e3ea65ee152c64ab3e0841806534a7f2b9ac152f9c2c29d601242",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/77073f1fa41e3ea65ee152c64ab3e0841806534a7f2b9ac152f9c2c29d601242.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "permit_issuer": "Fire Chief/Chief Fire Official (burn permit for religious/civic/ceremonial fires)",
    "allowed_conditions": "Cooking and Recreational Fires permitted in a Safe Location with Acceptable Burn Materials, supervised; prohibited on Poor Air Quality Days, High Risk Periods, or fire bans.",
    "fine_range": "fine not exceeding $5,000.00 under the Provincial Offences Act"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_issuer": "\"shall require a burn permit issued by the Fire Chief/Chief Fire Official\"",
    "allowed_conditions": "\"Cooking Fires and Recreational Fires shall be permitted\"; \"No person shall set a Recreational Fire or an Open Fire during a period identified as a Poor Air Quality Day, High Risk Period\"",
    "fine_range": "\"liable to a fine not exceeding $5,000.00 under the Provincial Offences Act\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/bluewater/open-burning/text-77073f1fa41e/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/bluewater/open-burning/"
}