{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001834",
 "municipality": "Zorra",
 "status_type": "Township",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "noise",
 "label": "Noise & nuisance",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-09",
 "official_website": "http://www.zorra.on.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "By-law 69-12: Zorra Noise Control By-law",
   "category": "noise",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2012-10-02",
   "document_url": "https://www.zorra.ca/assets/documents/69-12-Zorra-Noise-By-Law-Consolidated-November-2021-.pdf",
   "summary": "Regulates prohibited noises in Zorra, including persistent barking, amplified sound, shouting, machinery, and related noise controls.",
   "capture_sha256": "2c070324b6c280d1aeb136ffc611af4bda327bbfefda9c3cda3613d723050af3",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/2c070324b6c280d1aeb136ffc611af4bda327bbfefda9c3cda3613d723050af3.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "quiet_hours": "11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. (to 9:00 a.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays) for most residential noise; 9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. for construction/tools in residential areas",
    "construction_hours": "Prohibited 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. (to 9:00 a.m. on Saturdays) and at all times on Sundays and holidays in Residential and Commercial areas",
    "exemptions": "Emergency measures, municipal operations, snow removal, normal farm practices, church bells, Township-authorized events, industrial areas with EPA Certificate of Approval",
    "fine_range": "$125.00 per offence (set fine); minimum $125.00 per day or part of a day"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "quiet_hours": "Schedule \"A\" items 2, 3, 7",
    "construction_hours": "Schedule \"A\" item 10",
    "exemptions": "s. 4.1.1–4.1.7, s. 4.6",
    "fine_range": "s. 7; Schedule \"B\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/zorra/noise/text-2c070324b6c2/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/zorra/noise/"
}