{
 "answer": "St. Catharines, Ontario has no trees & tree removal bylaw on record as of 2026-10-25. Section 4 requires permission to injure, remove or plant city trees and regulates shared trees and private trees affecting City property. It is not general private-property tree permitting.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-001766",
 "municipality": "St. Catharines",
 "status_type": "City",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "trees",
 "label": "Trees & tree removal",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-10-25",
 "official_website": "http://www.stcatharines.ca",
 "documents": [
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   "primary": false,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "St. Catharines By-law 2017-326 to regulate trees on or affecting City property",
   "category": "trees",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://stcatharines.civicweb.net/document/110133/",
   "summary": "Section 4 requires permission to injure, remove or plant city trees and regulates shared trees and private trees affecting City property. It is not general private-property tree permitting.",
   "document_number": "2017-326",
   "notes": "Municipal/shared tree instrument linked by current official tree page; effective June 1, 2018, but handwritten passage date is unclear.",
   "discovered_by": "thin-cities",
   "discovered_at": "2026-10-25",
   "capture_sha256": "1a17dc8e4a852630fc1f08704a3b43bb1bf14fd6680a0d583d2d04158cbbf9a9",
   "captured_at": "2026-10-26T01:27:53+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/1a17dc8e4a852630fc1f08704a3b43bb1bf14fd6680a0d583d2d04158cbbf9a9.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/st-catharines/trees/bylaw-2017-326/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/st-catharines/trees/"
}