{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001613",
 "municipality": "Madawaska Valley",
 "status_type": "Township",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-09",
 "official_website": "http://www.madawaskavalley.on.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "By-law 2019-22 - Burning By-law (Open Air)",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.madawaskavalley.ca/media/mp2liywt/2019-22-burning-by-law-open-air.pdf",
   "summary": "Official township PDF regulating open-air burning.",
   "capture_sha256": "5ab368c04e9ab9115f0df1e0b8751f6ba0e768f3ada824b94789226dfcff9d2b",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/5ab368c04e9ab9115f0df1e0b8751f6ba0e768f3ada824b94789226dfcff9d2b.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "permit_issuer": "Fire Chief or Designate",
    "allowed_conditions": "With permit during fire season (Apr 1–Oct 31); or small confined fire for cooking/warmth, supervised at all times, except during Total Fire Ban.",
    "fine_range": "$200–$500 per Set Fine Schedule; up to $1,000 or 3 months imprisonment on conviction"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_required": "s. 3.1 \"All persons setting an open-air fire...shall first obtain a fire permit\"",
    "permit_issuer": "s. 2.1(h) \"granted a permit by the Fire Chief or Designate\"",
    "allowed_conditions": "s. 3.1; s. 3.2; s. 3.5 \"small confined fire, supervised at all times...used to cook food on a grill or a barbecue, or is for person warmth, except during a TOTAL FIRE BAN\"",
    "fine_range": "Set Fine Schedule (items 1–20, $200–$500); permit form \"fines not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1000) or imprisonment of up to 3 months\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/madawaska-valley/open-burning/text-5ab368c04e9a/",
   "transcript_quality": "ocr"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/madawaska-valley/open-burning/"
}