No milk shall hereafter be produced, sold, exposed for sale or delivered within the Township of Saddle Brook unless it is produced and handled in accordance with the provisions and requirements of this article.
No person shall hereafter engage in the sale or exposure for sale of milk within the Township of Saddle Brook without first having filed with the Division of Health a true and complete statement of the locality from which all milk he may handle is produced, a complete list of the persons from whom the said milk is purchased and a complete list of the localities from which ice for cooling purposes is obtained; and if at any time the place at which such milk is produced, or the persons from whom the said milk is purchased, or the localities from which the said ice is obtained shall be changed, the said Division shall be notified immediately. On or about the 15th day of June and December of each year and at any other time within three days of the receipt of a request therefor, any person engaged in the sale of milk in the Township of Saddle Brook shall furnish said Division with a complete list of all persons to whom milk is regularly sold.
All premises wherein milk is produced or handled for sale or distribution in the Township of Saddle Brook shall be open to the Division for inspection at any time, and the owners of cows from which said milk is produced shall permit a veterinarian in the employ of the Division to examine said cows at any time.
[Added 3-23-1934; amended 12-30-1981 by Ord. No. 849]
No milk or cream shall hereafter be produced, sold, exposed for sale or delivered within the Township of Saddle Brook unless there shall first be obtained from the Division permit so to do. The annual fee for such permit shall be $2 for each wagon or vehicle used in the distribution and sale of milk and cream and $5 for each place at or from which milk or cream is produced, sold or exposed for sale, which fee shall be paid by the person, firm or corporation conducting the business, and said permit may be revoked if any person permitted to produce, sell or distribute milk or cream by the Division shall violate any of the provisions of this article or any of the rules and regulations which from time to time may be promulgated by the Division. The application for such permit shall be in such form as may be designated by the Division.
Cows shall be stabled under light, dry and well-ventilated conditions, and the stables shall conform in all respects to the requirements hereinafter set forth, namely:
A. 
Any barn used as a cow stable shall be tightly sealed overhead, shall be entirely partitioned off from the rest of the barn and shall not be used for the storage of farm utensils nor for any other purpose.
B. 
The walls and ceilings of such stable, not otherwise treated in a manner approved by the Division, shall be whitewashed at least every six months.
C. 
Stables shall have at least 20 square feet of unobstructed window glass per 500 cubic feet of air space, the windows to be arranged so as to light all portions of the stable effectively.
D. 
Each cow shall have at least three feet in width of floor space when fastened or stanchioned, and in all cases where no adequate or artificial means of ventilation is provided, each animal shall have an air space of at least 600 cubic feet.
E. 
All stables shall be provided with tight dry floors, and the manure pipes or urine gutters shall be watertight and shall be thoroughly cleaned at least twice each day.
F. 
No manure, garbage or other putrescible matter shall be allowed within 100 feet of any cow stable, milk house or cooling room, and the drainage from said building shall be such that no liquid waste shall collect within that distance.
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Editor's Note: For provisions prohibiting the keeping of swine, goats and cattle in the Township, see Ch. 58, Animals, Art. III.
A. 
No milk shall be sold or offered for sale or distributed in the Township of Saddle Brook except from cows in good health nor unless the cows from which it is obtained have within one year been examined by a veterinarian whose competency is vouched for by the State Veterinarian Association of the state in which the herd is located and a certificate signed by such veterinarian has been filed with the Division of Health, stating the number of cows in each herd that are free from disease. This examination shall include tuberculin tests, and charts showing the reaction of each individual cow shall be filed with the Division. All cows which react shall be removed from the premises at once if the sale of milk is to continue, and no cows shall be added to the herd until a certificate of satisfactory tuberculin tests of said cows has been filed with the Division.
B. 
Cows shall at all times be kept in a clean condition, and their udders shall be washed or wiped immediately before milking.
C. 
No milk shall be obtained from any cow which has calved within 10 days nor from any cow within 30 days before the normal time of calving.
D. 
All milk shall be obtained from cows fed and watered under the following conditions: All feed given to such cows shall be sweet and wholesome. The use of distilled slops or fermented grain as feed shall be prohibited, and the presence of such slops or fermented grain on any dairy premises shall be considered sufficient for the exclusion of the milk from such dairies from the sale or delivery in the Township of Saddle Brook. Water supplied to cows shall be pure and free from all contamination from stable or household waste, but no spring or shallow well in or adjoining any stable yard shall be used for watering said cows.
A. 
All milkers and other attendants handling milk in any dairy shall be personally clean when entering upon their duties connected with the dairy, and their hands and outer garments must be clean.
B. 
Utensils used for the collection and transportation of milk shall, before being used, be thoroughly washed with pure water and soda or soap or by some other approved means and then sterilized by steam.
C. 
As soon as milk is drawn from a cow and before straining, it must be removed from the stable to a separate room, where it shall be strained immediately. It shall then within 45 minutes of the time of milking, and in a building separate from said stable, be cooled to 50º F. or below by some method approved by the Division. The above-mentioned cooling room shall be properly ventilated and lighted, shall be used for no other purpose than that indicated above, shall at all times be kept in a clean condition and shall not be connected with any stable, barn or dwelling.
D. 
All milk shall be delivered in bottles, but no milk in partially filled bottles shall be sold or offered for sale. No tickets shall be used in connection with the sale or delivery of milk. No bottles shall be filled, capped or recapped outside such dairy building regularly used for that purpose, and said bottling room shall at all times be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. Milk bottles shall be used for no other purpose than as receptacles for milk.
E. 
If at any time any person or persons having any connection with a dairy or the handling of milk, or any resident member of the family of any person so connected, shall be stricken with cholera, smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup, typhus, typhoid, scarlet fever, measles, tuberculosis or any other communicable disease that may hereafter be declared by the Division to be dangerous to the public health, notice shall be given to said Division immediately by the owner or owners of said dairy, and said Division may order the sale of such milk discontinued for such time as it may deem necessary. No milk produced from a dairy of any person failing to give notice shall hereafter be sold or exposed for sale or delivered in the Township of Saddle Brook, until special permission therefor has been granted by said Division.
A. 
Samples of milk shall be furnished the Division by any producer or dealer at any time upon proper payment therefor.
B. 
Milk supplies found to contain over 1,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter on two or more different days will be excluded from the Township of Saddle Brook until satisfactory evidence is shown that the milk may be reasonably expected to contain less than that number of bacteria.
C. 
No pasteurized milk shall be sold in the Township of Saddle Brook unless it is conspicuously labeled "Pasteurized"; said label shall also state the degree of temperature (and length of exposure at that temperature) and date of pasteurization.
D. 
No substance or compound shall be added to any milk which is to be exposed or offered for sale, and no substance shall be extracted therefrom.
E. 
No milk shall be sold in the Township of Saddle Brook which is obtained from a dealer who handles a part of the supply not approved by the Division, and no person shall deliver or offer for sale in the Township of Saddle Brook any milk unless the entire supply which he handles complies with the requirements hereinbefore set forth, unless satisfactory evidence is given the Division that the two supplies are kept separate.
F. 
No milk shall be delivered, stored or transported at a temperature exceeding 50º F.
G. 
No ice which is obtained from sources which are so situated that it may become contaminated shall be used for cooling milk.
No cream shall be sold, exposed for sale or delivered in the Township of Saddle Brook unless it shall be produced and handled in accordance with the requirements hereinbefore set forth for the production and handling of milk.