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 "municipality": "Essa",
 "status_type": "Township",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-10",
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   "title": "By-law 2026-19 - Feeding of Wildlife (Office Consolidation)",
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   "document_url": "http://www.essatownship.on.ca/media/cnvi1f5j/2026-19-feeding-of-wildlife-regulation-consolodated.pdf",
   "summary": "Township of Essa By-law 2026-19 prohibiting and regulating the feeding of wildlife as a public nuisance under the animals sphere of jurisdiction; consolidated by By-law 2026-23. Read three times and finally passed May 6, 2026.",
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   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
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   "fact_citations": {
    "fine_range": "Schedule A"
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   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/essa/animal-control/text-b92cbeb6859b/",
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 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/essa/animal-control/"
}