{
 "answer": "Mendon, Vermont has no open burning & fires ordinance on record as of 2026-09-22.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-028586",
 "municipality": "Mendon",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Vermont",
 "country": "US",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "uncertain",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-22",
 "official_website": "https://mendonvt.gov",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": false,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Town of Mendon Burn Permit Ordinance",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.mendonvt.gov/DocumentCenter/View/465/Burn-Ordinance---2001-PDF",
   "summary": "Requires a permit for any outdoor burning in the Town of Mendon; confirmed via the site's own indexed preamble text ('This is an ordinance relating to the requirement of receiving a permit for any outdoor burning'). Filename says 2001 (not used as adopted_date per no-filename-dates rule); PDF itself Cloudflare-walled.",
   "link_dead": false
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/us/vt/mendon/open-burning/"
}