[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Caledonia 4-29-1941.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person, firm or corporation shall carry on or conduct a business
of a slaughterhouse in the Town of Caledonia without having procured a license
therefor from the Health Officer of said Town.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following words, phrases, names
and terms shall be construed respectively to mean:
Any cattle, calves, sheep, swine or goats intended for human consumption.
All parts or portions, including viscera, of any slaughtered animal,
as "animal" is defined above.
A certification by the Health Officer of the Town of Caledonia that
the establishment named therein has been inspected and found to comply in
all respects with the requirements of this chapter.
Any meat or meat food product which shall have been
manufactured, handled or prepared by salting or other form of curing, pickling,
smoking or similar treating or processing.
Meat that has remained in the state it is in immediately after having
been slaughtered, dressed or prepared without having been cured, pickled,
cooked, smoked, processed or treated in any other way except by washing and
refrigeration.
A carcass or any portion thereof or any meat or meat food products
so stamped is unwholesome and unfit for food and shall be destroyed for food
purposes.
A carcass or any portion thereof or any meat or meat food products
so stamped is wholesome and fit for food purposes at the time of stamping.
A duly qualified veterinarian or physician of the Board of Health
of the Town of Caledonia, or a person acting under its direct supervision.
Any process of cooking, curing, smoking, salting, seasoning, pickling,
rendering, stuffing, treating, processing or otherwise preparing fresh or
cured meats.
The whole carcass or any part or portion of an animal that has been
slaughtered, dressed or prepared in such manner that it may be used for food.
Any food product containing meat as herein defined, either separately
or in combination with seasoning, cereals, vegetables, flour or any other
food and either fresh-cooked, smoked, prepared or manufactured in any way.
A mark, stamp or statement authorized by this chapter on any article
of meat or meat food product or on the container of such indicating that the
same has been inspected and passed for food by an authorized inspector.
The usual sections, cuts or parts of the dressed carcass, commonly
known in the trade as sides, quarters, shoulders, hams, backs, flanks, bellies,
lungs, heart, tongue, liver, kidneys, before they have been cut, shredded
or otherwise subdivided preliminary to use in the manufacture of meat food
products.
Any establishment in the Town of Caledonia wherein live cattle, sheep,
swine or goats are killed, slaughtered, dressed and prepared, cured, smoked,
salted, packed or rendered.
All meat and meat food products which are so affected with disease
that it would be dangerous to health to use them wholly or in part for food;
also all meat and meat food products which are contaminated, putrid, unsound,
unhealthful or otherwise unfit for food or produced or handled under conditions
contrary to the provisions of this chapter; and all meats and meat food products
which have been derived from any animal that dies as a result of disease or
accident or which was in a dying condition at the time of slaughter.
A.
Applications for licenses to conduct slaughterhouses
in the Town of Caledonia shall be made to the Health Officer and shall contain
such information as he may request.
B.
The Health Officer may revoke the license of any slaughterhouse
for violation of the provisions of this chapter.
C.
The annual fee for slaughterhouse license shall be as
set forth from time to time by resolution of the Town Board.
[Amended 8-11-1994 by L.L. No. 4-1994]
No person shall sell, expose for sale, handle, possess or offer for
sale in the Town of Caledonia any meat or meat food products which are unsound,
unhealthy or unwholesome. All meat which is sold, exposed for sale, handled,
possessed or offered for sale in the Town of Caledonia shall bear the official
inspection stamp of the United States government or any state or designated
municipality, including the Town of Caledonia, which has been placed thereon
by authority of regulations no less stringent than those provided in this
chapter.
All slaughterhouses shall upon demand give to any authorized meat inspector
of the Board of Health of the Town of Caledonia the sources and kinds of animals,
meat and meat food products which they receive, handle or sell. No slaughterhouse
shall sell, expose for sale, handle or offer for sale in the Town of Caledonia
any animals, meat or meat food products obtained from any but a source approved
by the Health Officer of the Town of Caledonia.
No person, firm or corporation shall slaughter within the Town of Caledonia
any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats used for human food and to be offered for
sale, except in a slaughterhouse licensed by the Board of Health.
No person shall sell, offer for sale, handle or possess the meat or
meat food products of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats or other animals designated
for food in the Town of Caledonia, except such as are slaughtered or handled
under the supervision of a United States government inspector in accordance
with the regulations prescribed by the Department of Agriculture of the United
States regulating the same; or by an official inspector of, in the employ
of and operating under the laws of a designated municipality; or under the
supervision of an inspector of the Town of Caledonia in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter, and unless there has been placed on each primal
part thereof, package or container thereof, by and under the personal supervision
of the respective inspector, a mark, stamp, label or brand showing that the
same has been inspected and passed for food purposes by the respective authority.
Slaughtering and inspection of all animals shall be conducted at slaughterhouses
on such days and hours as may be designated by the Health Officer, except
in certain cases of emergency when permission to slaughter may be granted
by the Health Officer, provided that the carcass of each animal slaughtered
under such permission is properly tagged and contains the viscera with natural
attachments for proper inspection.
A.
All slaughterhouses where cattle, sheep, swine or goats
whose carcass is used for human food is received, slaughtered and prepared
for sale and delivery shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and
shall be equipped with adequate water and lavatory facilities conveniently
located and shall also provide adequate means for the disposal of all waste
material. In addition to these requirements, each slaughterhouse shall comply
with the sanitary regulations of the Health Officer.
B.
No outside disposal or composting of carcasses, dead
animals, or any by-products shall be allowed, and all slaughterhouse operations
shall be confined to an enclosed building within the premises of the slaughterhouse's
facility.
[Added 7-13-2006 by L.L. No. 1-2006]
Except in emergency cases, where slaughtering is done as provided in § 101-8, all animals slaughtered in establishments operating under the provisions of this chapter shall be given antemortem and postmortem inspections by an authorized veterinarian of the Board of Health of the Town of Caledonia in accordance with the following:
A.
Inspection on the hoof. No person shall slaughter any
calves, cattle, goats, sheep or swine, except under the direction of an official
veterinarian after his inspection of such animals on the hoof.
B.
Method of inspection. Every portion of any animal slaughtered
and intended for food and food products shall be inspected by a veterinarian
of the Board of Health and marked by him or his duly authorized assistants
in accordance with the regulations for meat inspection of the Bureau of Animal
Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture.
B.
The carcass of all animals, meat or meat food products
as herein defined or the container thereof inspected by official inspectors
of the Town of Caledonia, New York, shall be stamped with an official stamp,
emblem or legend established by the Board of Health, and no person without
official authority shall mark or stamp any animal, carcass, meat or meat food
product or the containers thereof in imitation of the official mark, stamp
or emblem of the Town of Caledonia, New York.
No animal, carcass, primal part or meat food product shall be marked
with the official inspection legend of the Board of Health of the Town of
Caledonia, except under the supervision of an authorized veterinarian of the
Board of Health.
Veterinarians and inspectors enforcing this chapter shall have the right
to enter at any time, for the purpose of inspection, any place where any animal,
carcass or part thereof is kept, stored, held, exposed or offered for sale
for food. No person shall resist, obstruct or interfere with any authorized
veterinarian or meat inspector of the Board of Health of the Town of Caledonia
in the performance of his duties.
Whenever any animal, carcass, primal part, meat, fresh meat, cured meat
or meat food product shall be found unwholesome and unfit for human consumption,
it shall be marked with the official inspection legend "Inspected and Condemned"
by or under the supervision of an official veterinarian of the Board of Health
of the Town of Caledonia, and the same shall be disposed of as such authorized
veterinarian may direct.
[Amended 8-11-1994 by L.L. No. 4-1994]
A violation of this chapter is punishable by a fine not exceeding $250
or by imprisonment not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment,
or by a penalty of not more than $500 to be recovered by the Town of Caledonia
in a civil action.
