{
 "municipality_id": "gx-026046",
 "municipality": "Woonsocket",
 "status_type": "City",
 "jurisdiction": "Rhode Island",
 "country": "US",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": null,
 "documents": [
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   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Woonsocket Zoning Ordinance — Backyard Chicken Keeping (Sec. 4.4) and Farm Animals (Sec. 6.13)",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "code_chapter",
   "status": "adopted",
   "document_url": "https://clerkshq.com/Content/Woonsocket-ri/books/code/woonappc.htm",
   "summary": "Farm animals prohibited in all zoning districts (no agricultural zoning). Backyard chicken keeping permitted as Special Use in R-1, R-2, R-3 only (no roosters, max 5 hens, coop setbacks, confinement rules).",
   "capture_sha256": "b62690a9b4f754f0ee6d67ff2a21aa43ac26da5d7c171edbc067674652dd80a1",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-06T17:23:21+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/b62690a9b4f754f0ee6d67ff2a21aa43ac26da5d7c171edbc067674652dd80a1.html",
   "facts": {
    "leash_rule": "Hens must be confined between 9:00 PM and 8:00 AM; when not confined must be supervised, kept within enclosed fenced yard, and not allowed onto abutting property",
    "max_animals": "no more than one (1) hen per eight hundred (800) square feet of total lot area with a maximum of five (5) hens on any one lot; no roosters"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "leash_rule": "Backyard Chicken Keeping (b)",
    "max_animals": "definition 'Backyard Chicken Keeping'"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/us/ri/woonsocket/animal-control/text-b62690a9b4f7/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  },
  {
   "primary": false,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Woonsocket Dog & Animal Laws (City Website)",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "other",
   "status": "adopted",
   "document_url": "https://www.woonsocketri.gov/animal-control/pages/dog-animal-laws",
   "summary": "Dog limits: max 3 dogs in single-family home, max 1 in apartment. Leash law required. Barking >15 minutes straight deemed Disturbing the Peace. Farm animals prohibited (no rabbits, cows, goats, pigs, roosters, sheep).",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-06T23:07:48+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 403,
   "capture_note": "fetch failed/blocked; not snapshotted"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/us/ri/woonsocket/animal-control/"
}