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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances and Municipal Laws, Page 383REVISED ORDINANCES OF PADUCAH. 383 Ftnal Offenses and Punishmants.. -Regulating the Sale of Milk. Sec. 26. It shall be unlawful for any person to walk Loattuuat ratlnmd over, lounge or sit upon any bridge, trestle or incline of tMttes any railroad or depot company in the city of Paducah, ex- cept the employees of such company while in the actual dis I charge of their duties. If any person shall violate the provisions of this section he shall be fined $3 for each such violation. Regulating the Sale of Milk. Be it Ordained by the General Council of the City of • Paducah, Kentucky. Section I. That no pei son 'shall bring or send into the permit city for sale any milk without a permit to do so from the reuulred Meat and Milk Inspector, said permit to be furnished grat- uitiously, by the Meat and Milk Inspector to all applicants, and to be renewed in the month of January of each year to be valid. Sec. 2. All milk wagons shall have the name of the Name of owner and the number of the wagon or • vehicle painted wu¢oo U° thereon plainly and legibly. Sec, 3. No milk which is unwholesome or which has Adulterated been watered, adulterated, reduced or changed in any re- 'Ilk not to be spect by the addition of water or other substance, or by the removal of cream, shall be brought into, held, kept or of- fered for sale at any place in the city of Paducah, nor shall any keep, have or offer for sale in the said city any such milk except as provided for in this ordinance. Sec. 4. The terms "adulterated or unwholesome" as Terme used in this ordinance, are held to mean in this ordinance: defined I—Milk containing more than eighty-eight (88) ver cen- tum of water or fluids. 2—Milk containing less than twelve (I2) per centum of milk solid. 184 REVISED ORDINANCES OF-PADUCAH. gelating the Sale of Milk. k1 3—Milk containing less than three (3). percenmum of i fats, or having a specific gravity of less than ten ,and twenty nine one hundredths (io.29) 4—Milk drawn from animals within fifteen days (ts) i before or ten days after parturition. 5—Milk drawn from animals fed on distillery waste, or any substance in a state of fermentation or putrefaction, or on an unhealthy food or drink. 6—Milk drawn from cows kept in crowded or unhealthy condition. 7—Milk from which any part of the cream has been re- moved. 13—Milk which has been adulterated with water or any other fluid or to which has been added, or into which been introduced, any foreign substance whatever. a 9—Cream sold or offered or kept for sale as such must contain at least twenty (zo) per cent butter fat: creammnd I Sec: S. No dealer in milk by himself or his agent, shall removed sell or have in his possession with intent to sell, milk from which cream has been removed in part or in whole, unless sold as skimmed milk and unless there shall appear in a. conspicious place on both sides of the vehicle from which, tsceutlon - such milk is sold the words "skimmed milk" distinctly and legibly made in letters not less than one inch in height; nor shall any dealer in milk, nor his agent or agents, sell as skimmed milk any milk which has less percentage of casein and salt than that contained in unskimmed milk. fu nimbed Sec. 6. Any person who offers for sale milk skimmed or unskimmed, in the city of Paducah, Ky,, whether a resi- dent or nonresident, shall furnish a sample of such milk to to the Meat and Milklnspector of the City of'Paducah,— who may request tha same for the purpose of examination or analysis. n"tdeli "'ilk ' nvt delivered Sec. 7� No dealer in milk or his agents; shall serve , when milk bottle to any dwelling or other house that has in it any con - k1 REVISED ORDINANCES OF PADUCAH. 385 N Regulating the Sale of Milk. , tagious disease or diseases, or that is placarded by the health officers for contagious disease or diseases, until said placard has been removed by the proper authorities, nor shall any person remove from such dwelling or house any bottle or receptacle which has been or is used for the pur- pose of receiving or storing milk. No person suffering from, or who has knowingly within a period of twenty days, been exposed to diptheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, tub- erculosis, erysipelas, smallpox or other dangerous, contag- ious diseases, shall work or assist in or about any dairy or dairy farm; nor proprietor, manager, or superintendent of any dairy or dairy farm, who supplies milk to the citizens of Paducah, Ky., shall knowingly permit any person suffering from or exposed as aforesaid, to work or assist in or about, said dairy or dairy farm. Sec. 8. The Meat and Milk Inspector shall not issue When pe rudas a permit to any person to sell milk in the city of Paducah not to Issed who does not furnish once in every three months to the city clerk a sworn certificate to the effect that the cattle from which the 'milk he proposes to sell is obtained are entirely free from disease, and said certificate shall be kept on file in the City Clerks office. The Meat and Milk Inspector may require the' tuberculin test if any herd is suspected of in- Tuberealta fecfion with tuberculosis. test Sec g. Every person maintaining a dairy shall keep the Dairies to be same and all appurtenances thereto clean and wholesome at kept close all times and no building or space shall be used for dairy purpose which is not well lighted and ventilated and proper- ly drained. Sec. In. Every person using premises for keeping cows Premixes W for dairy purposes shall keep the entire premises clean and be kept cleat in'good repair, and the buildings well painted or white washed, and no accumulation of dung shall be allowed. Sec, it, Milkers and those engaged in the handling of Bmeloraste milk or cream shall maintain strict cleanliness of their hands be c esa and persons while milking or while so engaged. V 386 REVISED ORDINANCES OF PADUCAH. L;cgulating the Sale of Milk. cows to be Sec. 12. Every person keeping cows for the production keutclom of milk for sale shall cause them to be kept clean and wholesome at all times and shall cause the teats, and, if necessary, the udder, to be carefully cleaned by brushing, d shall cause each of washing or wiping before milking, anc said cows to be properly fed and watered. llowml'k Sec. 13. Any person using any premises for keeping ht be andledd cows for dairy purposes shall provide and cause a sufficient number of receptacles of nonabsorbent material, for the re- ception, storage and delivery of milk, and shall keep them clean and wholesome at all times, and at each milking shall ' remove each, receptacle as soon as filled, from the stable or room in which the cow-& are kept; nor shall any, milk or cream be stored or kep, within any room used for stabling cows or other domestic animals. rontarious Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of every person having 'repo*�fO charge or control of any upon which are kept premises cows to notify the Meat and Milk Inspector of the City of Padu- cah of the existence of any contagious diseases among such cows, by letter delivered by mail, within twenty four hours after the discovery thereof, and to thoroughlyisolate, any cow or cows so diseased, or which may reasonably be believed to be infected and to exercise such other precau- tions as may be directed, in writing by said. Meat and Milk Inspector. Dairies open Sec. 15. All darics from whieh milk is offered for sale to insuectton in the city of Paducah, shall be open at all times to the in- spection of the Meat and Milk Inspector of the City of Pad ducah, or any officer representing him. Penalty Sec. 16. That any person, firm, company or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined for each offense not less than twenty dollars nor exceeding one hundred dollars, Sec. 17. This ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved May 27th, r9o3. D. A. YEISER, Mayor.