{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001660",
 "municipality": "Norfolk",
 "status_type": "City",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-09",
 "official_website": "https://www.norfolkcounty.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Regulate the Setting of Fires By-law 2016-72",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.norfolkcounty.ca/council-administration-and-government/by-laws-and-policies/by-law-directory/regulate-the-setting-of-fires-by-law/",
   "summary": "Regulates setting of fires in Norfolk County, including conditions for fires, fires requiring burn permits, prescribed burning, prohibited fires and enforcement.",
   "capture_sha256": "c9af2dc89eb967cf8a3c3ba092014549202598eed3bcd7c7ec17392d1a32f646",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/c9af2dc89eb967cf8a3c3ba092014549202598eed3bcd7c7ec17392d1a32f646.html",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "permit_issuer": "Municipality (Fire Chief or designate)",
    "allowed_conditions": "Recreational fires (clean dry wood, ≤66cm, contained device, sunrise–midnight) and burn barrels (Schedule A materials, s. 3.3 conditions) allowed without permit."
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_required": "s. 4.1: \"A burn permit is required if you want to burn leaves, tree clippings or other similar materials\"",
    "permit_issuer": "s. 1(h): \"written conditional authorization issued and administered by the Municipality\"; s. 1(b): \"approved by the Fire Chief or designate\"",
    "allowed_conditions": "Part 3 heading: \"Fires that do not require a permit\"; s. 3.1; s. 3.3"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/norfolk/open-burning/text-c9af2dc89eb9/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/norfolk/open-burning/"
}