{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001454",
 "municipality": "Central Elgin",
 "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.centralelgin.org/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Fire By-law No. 773",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.centralelgin.org/By-laws/By-law-773-Fire.pdf",
   "summary": "Fire bylaw covering fire prevention and municipal fire-related regulation, including burning rules listed under Central Elgin's fire-related bylaws.",
   "capture_sha256": "8f6922f0215048bb5091325476fc0d47328e399e2864dac2302e5c340b7b2455",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/8f6922f0215048bb5091325476fc0d47328e399e2864dac2302e5c340b7b2455.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "permit_issuer": "Chief Fire Official",
    "allowed_conditions": "No permit required for legitimate cooking or heating fires contained in an area not exceeding one cubic metre, fuelled only by natural gas, propane, charcoal, or clean dry wood."
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_required": "no person shall set a Fire or allow a Fire to\nburn without first having obtained a Permit from the Chief Fire Official",
    "permit_issuer": "Permit issued by the Chief Fire Official signifying",
    "allowed_conditions": "No Permit will be required for and this by-law does not prohibit the use of\na Fire for legitimate cooking or heating purposes"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/central-elgin/open-burning/text-8f6922f02150/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/central-elgin/open-burning/"
}