{
 "answer": "The Municipality of The Nation, Ontario has 1 adopted bylaw on file: By-law 61-2022 - Animal Care and Control By-law, verified 2026-08-29.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-001789",
 "municipality": "The Nation",
 "status_type": "Municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "backyard_animals",
 "label": "Backyard hens & livestock",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-08-29",
 "official_website": "http://www.nationmun.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "By-law 61-2022 - Animal Care and Control By-law",
   "category": "backyard_animals",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2022-05-13",
   "document_url": "http://www.nationmun.ca/town-hall/by-laws-policies/animal-care-control",
   "summary": "Livestock - defined to include domestic fowl (chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, guinea fowl), horses, cattle, goats, swine and sheep - may only be kept where the land is zoned or lawfully used for that purpose (s.63), and no grandfathering exemption is available for livestock (s.75); Schedule 'A' also lists Galliformes and Anseriformes as prohibited animals except where kept as agricultural",
   "discovered_by": "on-newcats",
   "discovered_at": "2026-08-29",
   "capture_sha256": "06d3a5fd1bd9183f5a8590aaf032bf68e09353cab8d530fa5451dd56bf81e1f9",
   "captured_at": "2026-08-29T14:33:34+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/06d3a5fd1bd9183f5a8590aaf032bf68e09353cab8d530fa5451dd56bf81e1f9.html",
   "link_dead": false,
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/the-nation/backyard-hens/text-06d3a5fd1bd9/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/the-nation/backyard-hens/"
}