{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001183",
 "municipality": "Stoughton",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Saskatchewan",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-13",
 "official_website": "http://stoughtonsk.ca",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Bylaw 439/17 - Animal Control",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://stoughtonsk.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/439-17.pdf",
   "summary": "Town of Stoughton bylaw to license, prohibit, regulate and control animals; scanned PDF, no legible reading date.",
   "capture_sha256": "ad7d11c53b317a77a4931bf6d279aaa04491f2c2eded9f8b2c3055c125ec7dd3",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-13T16:33:18+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/ad7d11c53b317a77a4931bf6d279aaa04491f2c2eded9f8b2c3055c125ec7dd3.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "licence_fee": "$20.00 per cat or dog; $50.00 vicious dog; no charge for service dog",
    "leash_rule": "Dogs off owner's premises must not run at large; must be under immediate, continuous and effective control.",
    "max_animals": "No more than 2 cats and/or 2 dogs, total of 4 combined, over age of three months",
    "fine_range": "Bylaw tickets $100–$500 (Schedule 'B'); summary conviction individual $100–$10,000 or up to 1 year imprisonment; corporation $100–$25,000 or imprisonment of directors"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "s. 3: \"No owner of any dog or cat shall be in care and control of a dog or cat unless such dog or cat has been licensed\"",
    "licence_fee": "s. 6 and Schedule \"A\"",
    "leash_rule": "s. 9: \"All dogs, when off the premises of its owner, must not be running at large\"",
    "max_animals": "s. 14: \"more than two (2) Cats or two (2) Dogs or a combination of both, for a total of four (4) over the age of three months\"",
    "fine_range": "s. 35(3)(a)(b) and Schedule \"B\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/sk/stoughton/animal-control/text-ad7d11c53b31/",
   "transcript_quality": "ocr"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/sk/stoughton/animal-control/"
}