[1960 Code, Sec. 2.40.010]
It shall be unlawful for any person to slaughter any cattle,
hogs, sheep or lambs, or to conduct any slaughterhouse, packinghouse,
rendery, tallow chandlery, bone factory, soap factory or tannery,
or to engage in the manufacture or production of fertilizers or glue,
or the cleaning or rendering of intestines, within the City without
first having procured a license for such business. Anyone violating
the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be fined not
less than $25 nor more than $100 for each day he carries on such business
without a license.
[1960 Code, Sec. 2.40.020]
All applications for such license shall be made in writing and
shall specify the place, location and character of the business for
which such a license is desired. Such a license shall be issued to
expire on April 30 next following date of issue, and the fee shall
be $25, payable in advance.
[1960 Code, Sec. 2.40.030]
Any commissioners of the department of health and any and all
sanitary officers of the City shall be permitted a free entrance at
all hours of the day or night to all buildings and premises used for
any purposes mentioned in this chapter, and to free and unrestrained
examination and inspection of all apparatus or utensils used in such
business, the method of disposition of gases generated therein, all
animals slaughtered therein, and the meat of all such animals. Every
refusal to allow the aforesaid inspection shall subject the offender
to a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100.
[1960 Code, Sec. 2.40.040]
Every person owning, leasing or occupying any place, room or
building where any animals have been or are killed or dressed, and
every person owning, leasing or occupying any room, stable or yard
where any such animals may be kept, and having power and authority
to do so, shall cause such a place, room, stable, building, yard and
the appurtenances thereto to be thoroughly cleaned and purified and
all offal, blood, fat, garbage, refuse and unwholesome or offensive
matter to be removed therefrom not longer than 12 hours after the
use thereof for any of the purposes herein referred to, and shall
at all times keep all woodwork, except the floors and counters, in
any such building or place aforesaid, thoroughly painted or whitewashed.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit
and pay a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100 for each offense.
[1960 Code, Sec. 2.40.050]
The keeping and slaughtering of all such animals, and the preparation
and keeping of all meats shall be accomplished in that manner which
is or is generally reputed or known to be best adapted to secure and
continue their safety and wholesomeness as food.
[1960 Code, Secs. 2.40.060, 2.40.070]
(A)
Health Of Employees: Persons affected with tuberculosis or any other
infectious or communicable disease shall not be employed in any department
in such an establishment where carcasses are dressed, handled or meat
products prepared.
(B)
Handling And Transporting Meat; Aprons, Outer Garments, Covers: The
aprons or other outer garments of employees who handle meat in contact
with such clothing shall be of a material that can be readily cleaned
and made sanitary. All persons handling meat continually, or delivering
meat from one place to another shall be provided with an outer garment
made especially for this purpose. No meat shall be transported from
one part of the City to another, or from one establishment to another,
without first being covered with some material which shall exclude
flies, filth and dirt.
[1960 Code, Sec. 8.54.020]
Whoever shall, within the limits of the City, or within the
distance of one mile without the limits of the City, establish and
maintain a slaughterhouse or packinghouse or carry on the business
of slaughtering or butchering cattle, sheep, swine or other animals
for food, either as an independent business or in connection with
a retail meat market, or use any building or premises for that purpose,
in such manner that such business or place wherein the same is conducted
or the premises adjacent thereto, shall become unwholesome or injurious
to public health, or shall become offensive or annoying to any person
or family residing or doing business in the vicinity thereof, shall
be deemed guilty of maintaining a nuisance, and such business so maintained
or conducted, is hereby declared to be a nuisance. And no building
shall be used for carrying on any of the businesses or for the purposes
aforesaid, unless such building shall be properly lighted, ventilated,
screened and have a concrete floor and proper and sufficient drainage,
provided with hot and cold water and an ample metal container with
close fitting cover in which shall be placed all refuse and offal
which shall be removed daily to the crematory for cremation or otherwise
disposed of not in violation of law or ordinance.
Any person or persons creating or continuing a nuisance as herein
defined, or violating any of the provisions herein shall, upon conviction
thereof, be fined not less than $25 nor more than $100 for each offense.
