The health department shall be and is authorized and empowered
to make inspections from time to time of lobsters, crawfish, shellfish,
meat, meat food products and all other foodstuffs within the city
at such times and in such manner as may be reasonable and necessary
or advisable for protecting the public health and shall, after inspection,
seize, condemn and destroy any and all lobsters, crawfish, shellfish,
meat, meat food products and other foodstuffs appearing to the health
department to be unfit for human consumption.
(Ord. 180, 1990)
It is unlawful for any person, or the agent or employee of any
person, to sell or exchange for other things of value within the city
any lobster, crawfish, or shellfish, or to have in their possession
for the purpose of preparing same for human consumption any lobster,
crawfish or shellfish that does not show conclusive signs of life
immediately before the preparation thereof in any manner as food for
human consumption.
(Ord. 180, 1990)
Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the health department
that any lobster, crawfish, or shellfish does not shown conclusive
signs of life immediately preceding the preparation thereof as food
for human consumption, or that any lobster, crawfish or shellfish
or parts thereof may be unfit for human food, or that the same is
offered for sale contrary to the provisions of this chapter such lobster,
crawfish, or shellfish and all parts thereof shall be subject to confiscation
by the health department or subjected to such treatment as shall satisfy
the health department that such lobster, crawfish, shellfish or parts
thereof cannot thereafter be sold for human consumption in any manner
whatsoever.
(Ord. 180, 1990)
It is unlawful for any person to have in his possession, to
bring into or cause to be brought into the city, any meat, meat food
products, foodstuffs containing meat, or lobsters, crawfish and shellfish,
unless such meat, meat food products, foodstuffs containing meat,
or lobsters, crawfish and shellfish bear the inspection seal of the
Department of Agriculture, state of California, or of the United States
Department of Agriculture, Federal Meat Inspection Service, or of
the board of health of the city. The presence of such meat, meat food
products, foodstuffs containing meat, or lobsters, crawfish and shellfish
in the city is hereby declared to be a nuisance and inimical to public
health.
(Ord. 180, 1990)
