{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003170",
 "municipality": "Yarmouth",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Nova Scotia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "open_burning",
 "label": "Open burning & fires",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "https://www.townofyarmouth.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Open-Air Burning Bylaw (TOY 79)",
   "category": "open_burning",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2025-11-13",
   "document_url": "https://www.townofyarmouth.ca/town-hall/bylaws/1879-open-air-burning-bylaw-1/file",
   "summary": "Regulates open-air burning to protect against air pollution, nuisances and fire hazards, permitting outdoor wood-burning appliances; effective Oct 27 2021, amended Nov 13 2025.",
   "capture_sha256": "4e18e0f0cdd994c4de1c292b2f69a8c503e4b4918ed6769a312e797ec8a4026f",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-05T05:14:55+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/4e18e0f0cdd994c4de1c292b2f69a8c503e4b4918ed6769a312e797ec8a4026f.pdf",
   "facts": {
    "permit_required": true,
    "permit_issuer": "Fire Chief",
    "allowed_conditions": "Burning only in Outdoor Wood Burning Appliance with annual permit; 4.6m/15ft from structures/property line/forest; clean dry wood only; not started before 7pm weekdays/2pm weekends, extinguished by midnight; no wind >20km/h, no fog",
    "fine_range": "not less than $250.00 and not more than $10,000"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "permit_required": "s. 5.02(a)",
    "permit_issuer": "s. 5.02(a)",
    "allowed_conditions": "s. 5.02 and s. 5.07",
    "fine_range": "s. 11.1"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/yarmouth-town/open-burning/text-4e18e0f0cdd9/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/yarmouth-town/open-burning/"
}