No slaughtering house nor rendering works shall be operated
or maintained within the Town of Oneonta unless it is located within
an ID Industrial District and until application for the maintenance
and operation thereof shall have been made to the Town Planning Board
of said town and permission for such operation shall have been granted
after a public hearing upon notice published once in a newspaper circulating
within said town at least 10 days before the date of said hearing.
No special permit shall be granted for the operation or maintenance of a slaughtering house and/or rendering works as provided in §
79-1 hereof in the event such premises or any part thereof shall be within 1,000 feet of any regularly established church, school or residence.
Every applicant for a special permit to operate a slaughterhouse
shall pay to the Town Clerk a fee in the amount of $250.
Any application made to the Town Planning Board as provided in §
79-1 hereof shall be accompanied by a sketch or map which shall indicate the road or roads upon which the premises in which the slaughtering operations are to be conducted are located. There shall also be indicated either on the sketch or in a memorandum attached thereto the distance between said premises and all buildings used for dwelling or school purposes within a radius of 1,000 feet. There shall also be submitted as a part of said application the plan and specifications of the buildings within which the slaughtering operation and purposes incidental thereto shall be carried on, which said plan and specifications shall show the methods proposed for the disposal of waste and for the disposal of waste and for the sanitary maintenance of said building. No special permit will be granted unless the buildings constructed or to be constructed shall conform in all respects as to construction and sanitary facilities prescribed by the laws of the State of New York and the rules and orders of the Department of Health thereof.
Notwithstanding any rule and regulation of the State Health
Department now existing or hereafter promulgated and in addition thereto
or amplification thereof, any premises used as a slaughtering house
or a rendering works within the said town shall be constructed to
comply with the following specifications:
A. All floors shall be of concrete, properly waterproofed, or of some
material impervious to liquids.
B. All windows and outer doors shall be adequately screened.
C. The premises shall be ventilated so as to assure an adequate supply
of fresh air.
D. A supply of hot and cold water under adequate pressures shall be
available for washing and other operating purposes.
E. Adequate provisions shall be made for the disposal of the waste matter.
F. Metal containers equipped with tight covers shall be provided for
the storage of entrails and the containers shall be thoroughly cleaned
and sterilized for use either by boiling water or live steam.
G. In the case of rendering plants, facilities shall be provided so
that during the cooking process all odors and gases will be consumed
or reduced.
The Town of Oneonta in any special permit granted for the operation
of a slaughtering house or rendering works shall reserve the right
to inspect the premises from time to time, and in the event a departure
from the prescribed methods of operation of slaughtering houses and/or
rendering works shall be made apparent and which, in the opinion of
the Town Board or its duly authorized agent, shall result in a lessening
of the sanitary and health safeguards, the Town Board, as the local
Board of Health, may suspend the operation of the plant or invoke
penalties hereinafter set forth.
Any person committing an offense against any of the provisions
of this chapter shall be guilty of a violation under the Penal Law
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable for each offense
by a fine not to exceed $250 or by imprisonment for not more than
15 days, or by both a fine and imprisonment.