{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001692",
 "municipality": "Pelee",
 "status_type": "Township",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-10",
 "official_website": "https://www.pelee.org/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Dog Licensing and Regulation By-law No. 1625",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.pelee.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/By-Law-1625-Dog-License-Fees-and-Regulation.pdf",
   "summary": "Township of Pelee by-law imposing a dog licence fee and regulating the running at large of dogs under s.103 of the Municipal Act, 2001.",
   "capture_sha256": "953efa57b0dd46b65ce6d63b33817203a5ef3ac3115bfd083e2eb508ee674b3b",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/953efa57b0dd46b65ce6d63b33817203a5ef3ac3115bfd083e2eb508ee674b3b.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "licence_fee": "$3.00 male or spayed female; $5.00 each additional male or spayed female; $10.00 intact female; $15.00 each additional intact female; $50.00 kennel (5+ dogs)",
    "leash_rule": "Dogs found off premises without a tag, or with a tag not under control of any person, may be seized.",
    "max_animals": "Kennel licence required if five or more dogs",
    "fine_range": "penalty not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars; reclaiming fee $25.00 first offence, $35.00 each offence thereafter"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "s. 1: \"Every owner of a dog within the Municipality...shall...obtain a tag\"",
    "licence_fee": "Fee table following s. 1",
    "leash_rule": "\"found off the premises...without a tag, or with a tag and not under the control of any person\"",
    "max_animals": "\"For a kennel (required if five or more dogs)\"",
    "fine_range": "\"penalty not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars\"; \"$25.00 for a reclaiming fee on the first offence...fee of $35.00 reclaiming fee for each offence thereafter\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/pelee/animal-control/text-953efa57b0dd/",
   "transcript_quality": "ocr"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/pelee/animal-control/"
}