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ORDINANCE NO. 68-4-45
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 3-B OF AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED:
"AN ORDINANCE DEFINING 'MILe' AND CERTAIN 'MILK PRODUCTS', 'MILK
PRODUCER', 'PASTEURIZATION', ETC.; PROHIBITING THE SALE OF
ADULTERATED AND MISBRANDED MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS; REQUIRING PERMITS
FOR THE SALE OF MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS; REGULATING THE INSPECTION
OF DAITY FARMS AND MILK PLANTS, AND THE EXAMINATION, GRADING,
LABELING, PASTEURIZATION, DISTRIBUTION, AND SALE OF MILK AND MILK
PRODUCTS; PROVIDING FOR FEES FOR THE INSPECTION OF MILK AND MILK
PRODUCTS; PROVIDING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF FUTURE DAIRIES AND
MILK PLANTS, THE ENFORCEMENT OF THIS ORDINANCE, AND THE FIXING OF
PENALTIES", WHICH WAS ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE
CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY ON MAY 11, 1954 AND AMENDED ON AUGUST 25,
1959
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That Section 3-B of an ordinance containing the
title quoted above, which was adopted by the Board of Commissioners
on May 11, 1954 and amended on August 25, 1959, be, and the same
is hereby, further amended and reordained so that said section as
amended and reordained shall read as follows:
"SECTION 3. PERMITS AND INSPECTION FEES
B. INSPECTION FEES The permit provided for herein shall not
be issued uhless an inspection has been made by the Health Officer and
inspection fees therefor paid to the City of Paducah, Kentucky, as pro-
vided by this ordinance, by the person holding or applying for said
permit. Said inspection fees shall not be construed as a tax and are
deemed to be consistent with the fair and reasonable value of the
services rendered and to be rendered by the Health Officer to the permit
holder in the enforcement of the provisions of this ordinance by
regular inspections, tests, analysis, and all pertinent services.
Said fees shall be paid monthly to the City of Paducah, Kentucky on
or before the 10th day of each month hereafter, and shall be based upon
the actual net weight of all milk and milk products received or processed.
The original weight sheets shall be made available to the Health Officer
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once each month for the determination of said fees.
The owner or operator of a milk plant whose milk or milk products
are sold, delivered for sale, offered for sale, given away, stored
or distributed in the City of Paducah, Kentucky, shall pay an inspection
fee of two cents (2C) per hundred weight for all milk and milk
products received or processed at said milk plant, except sweet cream
purchased as such for marker milk purposes, in which case the fee
shall be one (14) cent per pound butterfat.
The inspection fees collected by the City of Paducah shall be
deposited by the City Treasurer in an account to be known as "City of
Paducah, Kentucky Division of Milk Control". Each month the City
Treasurer shall issue a check against said account payable to the
order of Paducah -McCracken County Board of Health in an amount necessary
for the payment of the inspections and other various services in carry-
ing out the terms of this ordinance. Said amount to be certified by a
resolution duly introduced and adopted by said Paducah -McCracken County
Board of Health.
Payment of the inspection fee herein provided shall entitle the
owner or operator of said milk plant to regular inspections as herein
provided, which shall include systematic and regular inspections of the
premises and equipment of all milk producers who supply milk or milk
products to said milk plant for determination of Grade. The name and
locations of all such milk producers shall be registered with the
Health Officer. All new producers shall be registered at least 7 days
before milk is to be received in order that the grade may be determined.
The holder of a permit, when informed by the Health Officer of
the breach of any of the requirements of this ordinance by a producer or
producers, who supply milk or milk products to his milk plant, shall
forthwith exclude such milk or milk products from his milk plant, and
shall not accept same thereafter until permission so to do is received
in writing from the Health Officer.
The entirety of the inspection fees paid to the City of Paducah
shall be used solely and exclusively for the inspections and various
services rendered to the permit holder by the City of Paducah and the
Paducah -McCracken County Board of Health, under the terms and provisions
of this ordinance, and for no other purpose whatsoever. Said fees
services rendered to the permit holder by the City of Paducah and
the Paducah -McCracken County Board of Health, and no more.
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The payment of inspection fees provided for in this section
shall be reciprocal with inspection fees charged by other cities within
the State of Kentucky for inspections of substantially the same nature
as provided for herein and credit against the inspection fees provided
for herein will be allowed to the owner or operator of a milk plant
situated in any other city in Kentucky whose milk or milk products
processed in said plant are sold, delivered for sale, offered for
sale, given away, stored or distributed in the City of Paducah, Kentucky
to the extent and amount that such fees are charged and paid to the city
in which said milk plant is located, but no further, and such credit
shall be allowed only if the city in which said plant is located allows
a similar credit against inspection fees charged by said city to the
owners or operators of milk plants located in the City of Paducah,
Kentucku whose milk or milk products are sold, delivered for sale,
offered for sale, given away, stored or distributed within such cuty."
SECTION 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repeated.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after its adoption.
Mayor
Passed by the Board of Commissioners April 23, 1968
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, April 23, 1968.