{
 "answer": "The Town of Brookfield, Vermont has 1 adopted ordinance on file: Town of Brookfield Animal Ordinance, verified 2026-09-22.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-028484",
 "municipality": "Brookfield",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Vermont",
 "country": "US",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-22",
 "official_website": "http://www.brookfieldvt.org/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Town of Brookfield Animal Ordinance",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2026-06-03",
   "document_url": "https://www.brookfieldvt.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Updated-Animal-Ordinnce.pdf",
   "summary": "Regulates dogs, wolf-hybrids, ferrets and pets: running-at-large restraint, disturbance-by-noise (barking over 30 min), licensing requirement, impoundment/disposition of unclaimed animals, civil enforcement. Signature page date is OCR-uncertain (scanned); read as June 3, 2026, consistent with the file's 2026/06 upload path.",
   "link_dead": false
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/us/vt/brookfield/animal-control/"
}