{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001818",
 "municipality": "West Elgin",
 "status_type": "Municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-09",
 "official_website": "http://www.westelgin.net",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Burning By-law",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.westelgin.net/en/municipal-office/resources/Documents/Burning-By-Law.pdf",
   "summary": "Regulates open air burning in West Elgin.",
   "capture_sha256": "3842e7f6a285d8cde41d30a3bd36ea21c2618cb102954b545005b196650e94ca",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/3842e7f6a285d8cde41d30a3bd36ea21c2618cb102954b545005b196650e94ca.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "permit_issuer": "Fire Chief or his/her designate",
    "allowed_conditions": "Exempt fires (cooking, campfires, chimineas, burn barrels in rural areas) permitted without notification; all others require Notification of Open Burn form submission."
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_required": "s. 6(a): 'No person shall burn without submitting a completed Notification of Open Burn form'",
    "permit_issuer": "s. 1(a): 'Approved means approved by the Fire Chief or his/her designate'",
    "allowed_conditions": "s. 2: 'No person shall set or maintain an Open Air fire except: a) An exempt fire as described in Sections 3 and 4'"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/west-elgin/open-burning/text-3842e7f6a285/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/west-elgin/open-burning/"
}