{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001761",
 "municipality": "Southgate",
 "status_type": "Township",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-09",
 "official_website": "http://www.southgate.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Open Air Burn By-law 2020-070 / 2023-083 consolidated",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.southgate.ca/media/1meny1d1/by-law-2023-083-burn-by-law-as-amended-by-by-law-2023-083.pdf",
   "summary": "Regulates open-air burning in Southgate.",
   "capture_sha256": "b5fd663cd1f67752eb4e0e4f96515227940802815d197a5699b9766843ac956a",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/b5fd663cd1f67752eb4e0e4f96515227940802815d197a5699b9766843ac956a.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "permit_issuer": "Chief Fire Official",
    "allowed_conditions": "Recreational fires ≤1m diameter and burn barrels do not require a permit; open air burns allowed ½ hour after sunrise, extinguished ½ hour before sunset, no burn ban in effect.",
    "fine_range": "$100.00 to $500.00"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_required": "s. 7.1",
    "permit_issuer": "s. 7.1",
    "allowed_conditions": "s. 5 (preamble); s. 6 (preamble); s. 7.8",
    "fine_range": "Schedule \"A\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/southgate/open-burning/text-b5fd663cd1f6/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/southgate/open-burning/"
}