--- title: "Find a rule or bylaw section with AI · Munia use case" description: "Planning act, Municipal Code, Cities and Towns Act, your bylaws: the answer comes with the section number, so it can be checked. A 95% reduction measured." url: https://munia.ai/en/use-cases/find-a-rule-in-a-bylaw/ lang: en-CA last_updated: 2026-09-23 --- [Urban planning](/en/for/urban-planning/)Planning, clerk's office, general management # Find the section that applies, with its reference Does this project comply with the bylaw? Which section applies? What does the law allow? In a small municipality, there is nobody else to ask. Munia offers one agent per legal corpus, answering with the exact section. Book a demo See the recipe The proof \-95% in time spent searching standards and regulations Measured in a municipality of under 3,000 residents and published in its GPS Climat solution sheet (Écotech Québec). [See the source.](/en/accomplissements/) 01 Before, after ## The same task, before and with Munia. Today - Open the Municipal Code, the planning act, then your own bylaws - Three sources that sometimes contradict each other - An answer without a reference, hard to defend - Nobody to ask in a small team With Munia - One agent per act: land use planning, cities and towns, Municipal Code, municipal contracts, taxation, access to documents - The answer comes with the section number - Your own bylaws loaded into an in-house agent - Check the section, answer the citizen or council 02 The recipe ## How it is done, step by step. 1. Choose the agent for the right corpus One agent per provincial act, a municipal bylaw comparator, a calendar of municipal obligations, case law analysis. 2. Ask the question as an inspector would The agent answers citing the section and, when useful, case law. 3. Add your bylaws An in-house agent loaded with your zoning, subdivision and construction bylaws answers section by section. 4. Check the citation The section number is there for that. It is what makes the answer defensible. Support tip - Client planners and inspectors themselves ask us to add the acts they use most: tell us which ones you are missing. - An agent glued to two unrelated documents answers off topic: one agent per subject. - On zoning grids in table form, the AI still makes mistakes: check those passages systematically. 03 Agents involved ## What you find in Munia for this task. - Application review “Does this application comply with the by-law in force?” - Citizen reply “Answer this request about the zoning by-law.” - File synthesis “Summarize this 40-page file into a one-page note.” - Legal agents by corpus Land use planning, cities and towns, Municipal Code, municipal contracts, municipal taxation, property transfers, access to documents, REAFIE, case law. These agents are described with the others on the page [For urban planning](/en/for/urban-planning/). Glossary terms [Municipal bylaw](/en/glossary/#reglement)[Municipal Code and Cities and Towns Act](/en/glossary/#code-municipal-lcv)[Planning program](/en/glossary/#plan-d-urbanisme)[Zoning bylaw](/en/glossary/#reglement-de-zonage)[Use and standards grid](/en/glossary/#grille-des-usages)[Act respecting land use planning and development (LAU)](/en/glossary/#lau)[Wetlands and bodies of water (RAMHHS, REAFIE)](/en/glossary/#milieux-hydriques)[AI agent](/en/glossary/#agent-ia)[Hallucination](/en/glossary/#hallucination) People stay in control, start to finish The agent prepares, the employee approves. Nothing is adopted, published, sent or destroyed without a person who reread it. That is the rule on every page of this site and in every Munia agent. 04 FAQ ## Frequently asked questions ### Is this a legal opinion? No. It is an answer with its reference, to check quickly. Interpretation and decisions remain with the planner, the clerk or your legal counsel. ### Which acts are covered? Land use planning, cities and towns, Municipal Code, municipal contracts, municipal taxation, property transfers, access to documents, REAFIE, among others. The list grows at clients' request. ### Our bylaws are PDFs. That is the normal case. You upload them, the in-house agent reads them. Tables remain to be checked. ### Where does the 95% come from? From a municipality of under 3,000 residents that measured the time before and after and published it in its GPS Climat solution sheet (Écotech Québec). See the Achievements page. ## Other use cases for urban planning [ Urban planning ### Check a permit application section by section Check an application against the zoning bylaw, section by section, and prepare the advisory committee file. What works, what we build, the limits we own. ](/en/use-cases/review-a-permit-application/) [All use cases](/en/use-cases/)