[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Alderman of the City of Derby 9-23-1976 as Ch. 16 of the Charter and Revised Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall bottle any milk or cream in any vehicle upon any street nor in any place other than the plant or place where the same is produced or within the plant, store or room where the same is kept for sale and all milk or cream produced, sold or offered for sale shall be of the standard quality prescribed by the General Statutes and shall be produced, handled, cared for, sold and delivered in accordance with the provisions of the General Statutes and the rules and regulations of the Milk Regulation Board of this state and the provisions of this chapter.
No person shall sell or offer for sale, in the city, milk or cream, unless such milk or cream shall be produced from tuberculin-tested cows, officially tested by the state or unless such person shall have an accredited herd certificate issued within 12 months or unless such milk or cream has been pasteurized in compliance with the provisions of law.
No person shall produce for sale, offer, keep or expose for sale or sell or deliver within the city any milk or cream to be used by any person for food without having a license therefor which shall be issued by the City Clerk upon presentation to him of an application therefor approved by the Health Officer as provided in this chapter.
Each application for a license shall be in writing in duplicate upon blanks provided by the Health Officer and shall contain the name and address of the applicant, the location of his place of business or a general description thereof, the number of milch cows kept by him, the name and address of each retail dealer to whom he sells or delivers milk or cream, approximately the quantity of milk and cream daily produced, delivered or sold, as the same may be, and if such applicant does not produce all of the milk and cream sold or delivered by him, such application shall also include the name and address of each producer from whom such applicant procures any milk or cream for sale or delivery. In the event that such applicant, while licensed to sell or deliver milk or cream as provided in this chapter, shall procure for sale or delivery any milk or cream from any person whose name and address has not been given by such applicant to the Health Officer, such applicant shall forthwith file in writing with the Health Officer the name and address of such person.
The Health Officer shall make such investigation and examination of each applicant for a license and of each licensee and of the milk and cream produced, sold or offered for sale or delivery by any such applicant or licensee and of his place of business and of the premises where milk or cream is produced, sold or offered for sale, including any vehicle, container or appliance used in the production, handling, selling and delivering of milk or cream by any applicant or licensee hereunder, as he may find necessary, and if the Health Officer shall find that any applicant for license produces, delivers or sells, as the case may be, pure and wholesome milk and cream, he shall endorse upon such duplicate applications his approval with the date thereof, provided that the Health Officer shall not endorse his approval upon any application for a license until he shall have evidence of the registration (for the current period) in the proper state office by the original producer of all milk or cream to be offered, sold or delivered by such applicant for a license.
Each license shall be numbered and each applicant for such license shall, at the time such license is issued, pay to the City Clerk $0.50 for the use of such city for such license, and no license shall be issued for a term longer than one year, and each license shall expire on the last day of February. Each licensee engaged in the sale or delivery of any milk or cream and using any vehicle therefor shall also secure from the City Clerk two metal license number plates for each vehicle used by such licensee in the sale or delivery of milk or cream, upon which such plates shall be legibly printed the words "Milk License, No. __ Derby, Conn." Before the word "Derby" upon such plates shall appear the number in figures of such license, and such licensee shall attach in a conspicuous place one of such plates to each outer side of such vehicle. Such numbers may be changed annually, subject to the orders of the Health Officer. Such licensee shall pay $0.75 for each pair of such license plates. Each producer and each dealer shall display his license in a conspicuous place in the place in which he produces or sells or offers or exposes for sale any milk or cream.
The Health Officer may revoke any license upon written notice either delivered to or deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, and addressed to the last known address of the licensee whose license is thereby revoked. He is also authorized to employ such assistance as he may require for the purpose of administering the provisions of this chapter, the compensation for whom shall be fixed by the Board of Aldermen.