{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001729",
 "municipality": "Renfrew",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-09",
 "official_website": "http://www.renfrewontario.com/",
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   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Dog By-law Number 17-2000",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.renfrew.ca/uploads/Consolidated-Dog-By-Law-1.pdf",
   "summary": "Regulates dog licensing, restraint, animals at large, impoundment, quarantine, dangerous dogs, nuisance barking, and related animal-control enforcement.",
   "capture_sha256": "dd03565fde09962df3da871ed32462a2475287ee09e3cac91566a2b284681602",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
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   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "licence_fee": "$10.00/animal (Jan 1–Mar 31, up to 4 per household); $12.00/animal (Apr 1–Dec 31, up to 4 per household); $15.00/animal (Jan 1–Mar 31, excess of 4); $18.00/animal (Apr 1–Dec 31, excess of 4); $0 for Service Dogs",
    "leash_rule": "Dog must be on leash (max 2 m) and under effective physical control whenever off owner's property.",
    "max_animals": "No more than 4 animals per household",
    "fine_range": "$55–$155 (set fines under Provincial Offences Act, Schedule \"A\")"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "s. 4(a): \"No person shall own, keep, or harbour any mature dog...unless such dog is licenced\"",
    "licence_fee": "s. 3(e) and Schedule \"A\" (B/L 48-2010)",
    "leash_rule": "s. 4(e): \"effective control of the animal by means of a leash, while not on the property of the owner\"",
    "max_animals": "s. 4(i): \"no more than four (4) animals kept or harboured at any one household\" (B/L 48-2010)",
    "fine_range": "Schedule \"A\" — Set Fines for Use under Part I of the Provincial Offences Act"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/renfrew/animal-control/text-dd03565fde09/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  },
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   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Prohibited Animals By-law Number 26-2016",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.renfrew.ca/uploads/BL.26-2016.Prohibited-Animals-Bylaw-accessible.pdf",
   "summary": "Regulates the keeping, impoundment, removal, and destruction of prohibited or restricted animals in the Town of Renfrew.",
   "capture_sha256": "66a7c412ffe413fda78913a1afb48bd5a54fcadc7e517dca76ba3a84db093c7d",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/66a7c412ffe413fda78913a1afb48bd5a54fcadc7e517dca76ba3a84db093c7d.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "fine_range": "$200.00"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "fine_range": "Schedule \"B\", Column 3 Set Fine"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/renfrew/animal-control/text-66a7c412ffe4/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/renfrew/animal-control/"
}