{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001740",
 "municipality": "Scugog",
 "status_type": "Township",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-09",
 "official_website": "https://www.scugog.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Open Air Burning By-law 63-21",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.scugog.ca/media/j5on5gqo/by-law-63-21-open-air-burning-updated-accessibility.pdf",
   "summary": "Permits, regulates, prohibits, and controls open-air burning within the Township of Scugog, including permit categories and burn conditions.",
   "capture_sha256": "19a0b59e5a4f77cc36d861b75a795c7f62e6f082dc00f8b77ac523e4d675c513",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/19a0b59e5a4f77cc36d861b75a795c7f62e6f082dc00f8b77ac523e4d675c513.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "permit_issuer": "Fire Chief",
    "allowed_conditions": "Cooking fires on BBQ/hibachi/permanent cooking structures exempt; Fire and Emergency Services training fires exempt; camping establishment individual sites with Specialty Permit."
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_required": "s. 14: \"No person shall set an open air fire or allow an open air fire be set without a Permit.\"",
    "permit_issuer": "s. 33: \"satisfy the Fire Chief or designated person to issue such Permits\"",
    "allowed_conditions": "s. 29: \"barbeques, hibachis, permanent structures designed and intended solely for the cooking of food\"; s. 27: \"fire is set by Scugog Fire and Emergency Services for the purpose of extinguishing any fire or for the purposes of training\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/scugog/open-burning/text-19a0b59e5a4f/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/scugog/open-burning/"
}