{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001719",
 "municipality": "Rainy River",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-09",
 "official_website": "http://www.rainyriver.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Open Air Burning By-law 1626-15",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.rainyriver.ca/uploads/by-laws/1626-15-open-air-burning.pdf",
   "summary": "Controls and regulates open air burning, including times for fires, precautions, fire permits, fees, exemptions, and enforcement.",
   "capture_sha256": "7eec07de733de648540572cae84731f731bcecbc92a642db37e3471a5e045976",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/7eec07de733de648540572cae84731f731bcecbc92a642db37e3471a5e045976.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "permit_issuer": "Chief Fire Official",
    "allowed_conditions": "Small confined fire <1m diameter/height in fire pit, supervised at all times; gas BBQs exempt; recreational fires exempt from 7am-7pm time limits",
    "fine_range": "$350.00 per response for repeat non-compliance; $350.00 per hour for uncontrolled fire response"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_required": "s. 5.1: \"No person(s) or owner(s) of land shall set a fire...without first having obtained a fire permit from the Chief Fire Official\"",
    "permit_issuer": "s. 5.3.3: \"Receives approval from the Chief Fire Official to conduct the burn\"",
    "allowed_conditions": "s. 3.1, s. 4.1, s. 4.3, s. 8.6",
    "fine_range": "s. 8.10: \"$350.00 per response\"; s. 9.4.4: \"$350.00 per hour\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/rainy-river/open-burning/text-7eec07de733d/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/rainy-river/open-burning/"
}