{
 "answer": "In the Town of Gananoque, Ontario, permit required: True; applies to private property: True; protected threshold: Heritage Trees individually designated by Council (any species, no DBH threshold stated); replacement required: Same species, no less than 10 cm diameter measured at 1.2 m height, at owner's expense. Source: Bylaw Number 2006-03 to Regulate the Destruction or Injuring of Trees (Heritage Tree By-law), verified 2026-08-28.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-001520",
 "municipality": "Gananoque",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "trees",
 "label": "Trees & tree removal",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-08-28",
 "official_website": "https://www.gananoque.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Bylaw Number 2006-03 to Regulate the Destruction or Injuring of Trees (Heritage Tree By-law)",
   "category": "trees",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2006-02-07",
   "document_url": "https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/gananoque.ca/s3fs-public/by-laws/2006-03-Heritage-Tree-By-Law.pdf",
   "summary": "Establishes a Heritage Tree program regulating destruction/injuring of designated trees under Municipal Act s.135; requires replacement of a destroyed Heritage Tree with a comparable tree at the owner's expense.",
   "discovered_by": "on-newcats",
   "discovered_at": "2026-08-29",
   "capture_sha256": "670c6f7198dbb4165734c1d34350183156e7c4091cdf77183d7c07ed85b6308e",
   "captured_at": "2026-08-29T14:33:34+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/670c6f7198dbb4165734c1d34350183156e7c4091cdf77183d7c07ed85b6308e.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "applies_to_private_property": true,
    "protected_threshold": "Heritage Trees individually designated by Council (any species, no DBH threshold stated)",
    "replacement_required": "Same species, no less than 10 cm diameter measured at 1.2 m height, at owner's expense"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_required": "\"Council may require that a Permit be obtained to cut/prune or destroy trees\"",
    "applies_to_private_property": "\"A Heritage Tree may be nominated on either public or private property\"",
    "protected_threshold": "s. 1–2: \"Each tree will be identified by number, species and reason for selection\" and approved by Council",
    "replacement_required": "s. 6: \"replace the Heritage Tree, at the expense of the owner, with a tree of the same species of no less than 10 cm diameter measured at the height of 1.2 M\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/gananoque/trees/text-670c6f7198db/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/gananoque/trees/"
}