{
 "answer": "The Town of Sheffield, Vermont has 1 adopted ordinance on file: Animal Control Ordinance, verified 2026-09-22.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-028652",
 "municipality": "Sheffield",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Vermont",
 "country": "US",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-22",
 "official_website": "https://www.sheffieldvt.org/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Animal Control Ordinance",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "1992-05-07",
   "document_url": "https://www.sheffieldvt.org/animal-control-ordinance",
   "summary": "Regulates dogs in Sheffield: licensing, collar, running-at-large ban, impoundment, vicious-dog and pit-bull/wolf-breed confinement provisions, cemetery ban, cruelty prohibition.",
   "link_dead": false
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/us/vt/sheffield/animal-control/"
}