{
 "municipality_id": "gx-000517",
 "municipality": "Bethune",
 "status_type": "Village",
 "jurisdiction": "Saskatchewan",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-13",
 "official_website": "http://www.villageofbethune.com",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Bylaw 04-2023 Animal Control (Control of Dogs and Cats)",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://villageofbethune.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-04-For-the-Control-of-Dogs-and-Cats.pdf",
   "summary": "Village of Bethune Animal Control Bylaw for the control of dogs and cats; supersedes the 2010 Animal Ownership Bylaw.",
   "capture_sha256": "685e5406b8ed91e008d6a9e154f1af54090248e46173958c100c0200b42dbfc3",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-13T16:33:18+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/685e5406b8ed91e008d6a9e154f1af54090248e46173958c100c0200b42dbfc3.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "licence_fee": "$10 male; $10 spayed female; $30 unspayed female; guide dog free",
    "leash_rule": "Dogs must be on leash or securely fastened or confined; cats exempt if spayed/neutered",
    "max_animals": "No more than 3 domestic animals per person/premises",
    "fine_range": "$20–$1,000 (summary conviction); voluntary penalties $20–$2,000 depending on offence and repetition"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "s. 3(a)",
    "licence_fee": "s. 3 licence fee table: 'For each male $10; For each spayed female $10; For each unspayed female $30'; s. 3(d) guide dog 'without charge'",
    "leash_rule": "s. 7(2): 'dog or cat shall be deemed to be running at large when… not under control by being: (i) in direct and continuous charge of a person… by means of a leash'",
    "max_animals": "s. 5(a): 'No person shall own, possess, harbour or maintain more than three (3) domestic animals'",
    "fine_range": "s. 15: 'fine of not less than Twenty ($20.00) dollars and not more than One Thousand ($1000.00) dollars'; s. 16 voluntary penalty table: up to $2,000 (subsequent kennel offence)"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/sk/bethune/animal-control/text-685e5406b8ed/",
   "transcript_quality": "ocr"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/sk/bethune/animal-control/"
}