{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001823",
 "municipality": "Westport",
 "status_type": "Village",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-10",
 "official_website": "https://villageofwestport.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "By-law 85-12 - Licensing and Regulation of Dogs",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "1988-09-30",
   "document_url": "http://villageofwestport.ca/wp-content/uploads/attachments/54980e_ec44998d0b624e319602f411c703d3b9.pdf",
   "summary": "Village of Westport By-law 85-12 requiring the licensing and regulation of dogs and kennels, setting licence fees and repealing By-law 444. Read first, second and third time and passed 30 September 1988.",
   "capture_sha256": "95bc602083d96f7244b6b936706f4de3093c7b2a400e3c78986ba2a6b7e44f7f",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/95bc602083d96f7244b6b936706f4de3093c7b2a400e3c78986ba2a6b7e44f7f.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "licence_fee": "Male dog $3.00; each additional male (same person) $5.00; unspayed female $5.00; each additional unspayed female (same person) $7.00; spayed female $3.00; each additional spayed female (same person) $5.00; kennel licence $25.00",
    "leash_rule": "No person shall permit his dog to run at large; dog deemed at large when found off owner's premises while not under owner's control.",
    "fine_range": "Not exceeding $50.00 exclusive of costs on conviction; set fines $10.00–$50.00 per schedule; $50.00 per day for failure to comply with surrender order"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "s. 3: \"The owner of a dog…shall…apply to the Village Clerk for a dog license\"",
    "licence_fee": "s. 3(b)(i)–(vi); s. 5 (kennel licence $25.00)",
    "leash_rule": "s. 11; s. 5 (definition): \"found in a place other than the premises of the owner while not under the control\"",
    "fine_range": "s. 13(a): \"fine not exceeding the sum of $50.00 exclusive of costs\"; s. 13(b): \"$50.00 per day\"; Set Fine Schedule (Column 3)"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/westport/animal-control/text-95bc602083d9/",
   "transcript_quality": "ocr"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/westport/animal-control/"
}