No person shall conduct, maintain or operate a business for the sale
of meat, poultry or fish unless a license is first obtained from this Board.
Such establishment shall be kept in a sanitary condition at all times. The
floors shall be cleaned daily or oftener and the counters and meat blocks
upon which meat is cut shall be kept in a clean condition. Meat, fish and
poultry shall not be allowed to remain on counters, blocks or hooks, but shall
be placed in refrigerators or refrigerated display cases having a temperature
below 50° F.
No beef, pork, veal, mutton, lamb, meat sausages, chopped meat or edible
viscera nor any part of any animal from which any of said meats is obtained
shall be sold for food purposes or exposed for sale or held in possession
in a store in which food is sold unless the said animal has been examined
before and after slaughter by a meat inspector duly appointed by the United
States Government or by some other inspection service approved by this Board
and has been passed as fit for food and has been stamped with a proper identification
mark or marks according to the system adopted by the United States Bureau
of Animal Industry.
No person shall conduct, maintain or operate a business for the sale
of live poultry or engage in the business of slaughtering and preparing poultry
in this municipality unless permission is granted by the Board of Health.
Except when permitted under local ordinance, no person shall engage
in the business of slaughtering cattle unless permission is first granted
by the Board of Health.
