{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001827",
 "municipality": "Whitestone",
 "status_type": "Municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-09",
 "official_website": "https://www.whitestone.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "By-law No. 37-2020 - Open Air Burning",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://whitestone2023.municipalwebsites.ca/ckfinder/connector?command=Proxy&lang=en&type=Files&currentFolder=%2F&hash=c245c263ce0eced480effe66bbede6b4d46c15ae&fileName=Open%20Air%20Burning.pdf",
   "summary": "Official open air burning by-law PDF linked from Whitestone's by-law index.",
   "capture_sha256": "0240f19171cab4f3c3954d685e3db31731acf27a6fe3ceca54692f2ad590f0d1",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/0240f19171cab4f3c3954d685e3db31731acf27a6fe3ceca54692f2ad590f0d1.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "permit_issuer": "Fire Chief or his or her designate",
    "allowed_conditions": "Outside Fire Season; portable liquid/gas appliance per s.9; portable/permanent charcoal installation per s.10 (no permit required)",
    "fine_range": "First conviction: $100–$5,000; subsequent: $200–$10,000; corporation first: $200–$10,000; corporation subsequent: $1,000–$25,000; set fine per Schedule A: $200"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_required": "s. 2(1)",
    "permit_issuer": "\"Daytime Burning Permit\" ... \"permit issued by the Fire Chief or his or her designate\"",
    "allowed_conditions": "s. 2 (opening clause), s. 9, s. 10",
    "fine_range": "s. 13(2)(a)(b), s. 13(3)(a)(b), Schedule \"A\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/whitestone/open-burning/text-0240f19171ca/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/whitestone/open-burning/"
}