HomeMy WebLinkAbout015 - 07/22/1907 - RELATING TO FOOD AND THE INSPECTION THEREOF AN ORDINANCE IN R) IATICN TO FCOD AND THE
INSPECTION TI7FEOF.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Fort Collins,
as follows:
ARTICLE I.
Food Inspection.
Section 1. There is hereby created the office of Food
Inspector. The Food Inspector shall be appointed by t4**—U&7101r
a ' the City Council. He shall be a qualified
veterinarian 'rith a practical knowledge of meat inspection and
milk analysis and the diseases of meat and milk producing
animals. Before entering upon the duties of his office, he shall
execute a bond to the City in the sum of One Thousand Dollars,
(�1,000) with such sureties as the Mayor shall approve, conditioned
for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. The
salary of such Food Inspector shall be determined and fixed by
the Council, and shall be provided for in the annual appropriation
ordinance.
Section 2. The Food Inspector shall be subject at all times,
to the control and supervision of the Committee on Health .of the
City Council. He shall examine and inspect all articles of food
kept or offered for sale in this city, and shall condemn any
such articles as he shall find unfit for human consumption, and
he shall perform such other duties as shall be required of him by
said Committee on Health. He shall have power, under the sup-
ervision of said Committee, to employ such deputies and assistants
as may he necessary in performing the duties of his office and those
imposed by said Committee on Health. He shall have general power,
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unaer the supervision of the Health Committee, to enforce the
provisions of this ordinance
ARTICLE II
MILK
Section 1 No person shall sell or olfer for sale or
cause to be soldor kept for sale, any milk, cream or butter-
milk for human food at any grocery store or other place, or
peddle or deliver the same, either in wagons or other vehicles,
or otherwise in this City, without first having obtained a license
for each store or other place where such milk or cream is sold
or offered for sale, and for each wagon or vehicle driven or
used for such purpose, and no person shall ship or bring into
this city by freight express or otherwise, any milk or cream
for sale without having a license so to do Any person desiring
such license shall make applica ion in writing therefor to the
City Clerk Such application shall be made upon a printed form
to be furnished by the Committee on Health, and such applicant,
if an individual, shall state therein his full name and residence,
and if a corporation, shall state the full name and residence
of each of its officers Such application shall also state the
location of the place at which it is desired to carr,, on such
business It shall also contain a description of each wagon or
other vehicle to be used by the applicant in his business, also
the number of cows oined or controlled by the applicant Upon
such application beirg filed with the City Clerk, the Food Inspec-
tor shall investigate the place of business described in such
application and the wagons or other venicles intenaed to be
used by said applicant The rood Inspector stall report the
result of such investigation to the City Clerk and 1" such place
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of business and such wagons or vehicles are found by said Food
Inspector to be in a sanitary condition and flu for the uses
to which they are intonded to be put, the City Olerk may thereupon
issue a license to such applicant upon the payment as fee fur such
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license for each wagon used in deliverj for
each s ore or other place where milk or cream or either of tl^em
f
_s sold ` and for each person who shall ship or
bring milk and cream, or either o them into the cilty
Such license shall not be transferable and shall authorize the
licensee to carry on his ousiness only at the place or places
described in such license All licenses issued under this
section shall expire on the 31st day of December next afuer uhe
issue tntreof
Section 2 Every person to who-n a license may be issued
under +17, , article shall keep the same in a conspicuous place in
in the room or place for izich it was granted and every person
authorized to peddle milk or cream or either of them "rom a
wagon, shall cause the name of the person and the number of the
license to be plainly printed in letters and figures, at least
1 1/2 inches in height, in a conspicuous place on the wagon
In case the licensee shall ship or bring m_lk and cream or
either of them, i-,to tills city by express or otherwise, the numoer
of the license shall be placed on every can and he -hall keep
the same plain and distinct during tic time for which such
license is issued
Section 3 Every Ierson licensed under the proviciors of
tri article or who is engaged in or carrying on the business
of vending m_lk and cream of either of them, shall keep all cans
and other receptacles used in and about the handling of nilk and
cream, or eitrei o, L em, ana 11 refrigerators or compartments and
stores or otter places where milk and cream, or either of +hem is
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kept, stored, or handled in a scrupulously neat and clean condition
and free from the presence or vicinity or any article or thing
likely to contaminate or injuriously affect the quality or sweetness
of the milk or cream, and shall also cause all cans and other
receptacles in whihh milk or cream is kept to be sterilized mith
boiling water or live steam before using again and shall cause all
bottles, cans, dippers or oth-r vessels used in and auout the
peddling or vending of milx and cream to be scalaea or sterilized
daily, and shall cause all bottles or jars it *hich milk or cream
is sold, offered for sale or delivered to be washed clean and
thoroughly sterilized before being used agair ho milk or cream
delivered in this city shall be bottled, canned, of prepared for
delivery at any place other than the milk house 110 person shall
use any can, bottle or other receptacle in which milk or cream has
peen shipped of conveyed to him for the storage of such milk,
cream or any other article or thing, but shall cause such rens,
bottles, or other receptacles to be emptied and thoroughly cleaned
and dried and returned to the shipper within 24 hours after he shall
have received the same, and all sterilizinE ana cleansing reouiied by
this section shall be done as the Health OfficcY may direct
Section 4 No person shall deliver or bran.- into the city
for sale, any milk or cream unless the same is contained in a can
of receptacle sealed vith a metal seal by the shipper thereof
and unless such can or receptacle shall have such seal intact at
the tine it is brought into the city Vo person shall sell, offer
for sale, or dispose of or deliver to any person, any milk or cream,
or have any milk or cream in his possession wLth the intent to sell
offer for sale, or deliver the same to any person to ihich he knows
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or has reason to believe was received in or brougnt inLo she
city in a can of other receptacle hich dia not have its seal
intact, in accordance vith the provisions of this section
Section 5 It shall be the duty of the Food Inspector
to visit and inspect all places ana vehicles in which milk and
cream, or either o� them is sold or offeredfor sale, stored, kept,
or delivered, and inspect all vessels cans, receptacles, packages,
refrigerators or compartments in store or building, platforms,
establishments or places of any kind cortaining milk or cream,
and to ascertain the condition thereof iith reference to clean-
liness and sanitation, and to cause the removal and abatement of
any unfit unclean or injurious conditions attending the keeping
storing or possession, care, custody, or control of any milk or
cream at and in all places
Section 6 The City Health Officer, the rood Inspector
and his deputies and assistants and any police of icer autl-iorized
by the Committee on Health or by lie City Council shall have the
right and power to enter and have full access to all wagons, rail-
road cats or other vehicles of any kind used for the conveyance
or aelivery of milk and cream or either of them and shall have the
right to take samples of milk and cream therefrom, such samples not
to exceed one quart, for the purpose of inspecting testing or
analysing the same
Section 7 No person licensed under ti_ article shall
keep, sell, or offer for sale or nave in his possession charge
or control, in this city, any milk if such milk contains more han
88 per cent of watery fluid or less than 12 per cent of total
solids, or less than 3 per cent of butter fat No person licensed
under this article shall keep sell of offer for sale, or have in his
possession charge or control for sale in this city, any cream if
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such cream contains le. s than 15 per cent of butter Tat
Section 8 No person shall or offer for sale, in this city,
any milk from vhich the cream, or any part thereof, shall nave
been taken, unless such milk shall be offered for sale and sold
bj such person as ' skimmed milk' and unless the cans or other
receptacles containing such milk shall have painted or printed
on the outside thereof, the words Skimmed Milk, in plain,
black letters to be kept plainly visible at all times and no
such person shall sell, offer for sale or deliver any "skimmed
milk' containina less than 8 5 per cent of total solids other
than butter iat
Section 9 Whoever, by himself or by his servant or atpent
or as agent or serva*it or employee of any other person sells,
offers for sale delivers or has in his custody or control with
intent to sell offer for sale or deliver in this city Pn3 milk or
cream or skimmed milk for human food ; hich is unclean diluted,
impure, unwholesome, adulterated or not of the standard provided
for by this article, or milk or cream or shimmed milk to wh ch water
or any foreign substance has oeen added, or milk or cream pioaucea
from sick or diseased cows or from cows kept in an unclean filthy
and unhealthy condition or cows fed any garoaae swill refuse or
other improper food or milk or cream that has been exposed or
contaminated or affected bd the discharges or exhalations of any
of any human being or animal situ or infected shall, for the first
offence be fined not less than Five Dollars 05) nor more than
Twenty-Five Dollars ( ,j25) and for each subsequent offense not less
than Twenty Dollars ( �20) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ( A'100)
Any person who shall adulterate milk or cream, or reduce or change
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it in any respect, by the adaition of water of any foreign or any
other substance, witn the vies uo selling or offering the game for
sale or exchange in this city, shall be fined not less than Five
Dollars ( 9"5) , nor more than Twenty-five Dollars ( '"20) for each
offense and any pt-rson who shall sell or offer for sale in his
city, any milk or cream containing any coloring matter or any
adulterant, preservative, thickener or other material substance,
whether foi the purpose of artificially increasing the quantity of
milk or cream or for preserving the sweetness thereof or for any
other purpose and any person who shall sell or offer for sale in
this city for use it milk or cream ny preservative coloring matter,
thickener,adulterant or other material substance, shall nc, fined
not less than Five Dollars ( ; 5) , nor more than Twenty-fire Dollars,
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Section 10 All milk or cream from sick or diseased cows
or cows fed on slops or that may injuriously effect of be detrimental
to life and health shall, upon discovery thereof be confiscated or
forfeited by or under tip 1irectior or tIe Citj Health Officer
Section 11 Every person owning, keeping or in possession,
charge or control of any cow stable or dairy where milk cows are
stabled or kept, or from which milk is sold within this city shall
have such stable or dairy cleaned daily in a thorough manner by
such methoas as snall be directed by ,he Food Inspector, anct shall
maintain the premises thereof free from any accumulation of refuse
matter or offal
Section 12 All dairy cows which produce milk foi the
market of the City of Fort Collins shall be free from all disease
that would in any way affect the milk, such as Tuberculosis
Anthrax, Lumpy Jaw, Texas Fever, Pneumonia, Parturient Apoplexy,
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Malignant Catarrh No cow shall be used in any dairy which
supplies milk for sale within this city unless she has been tested
with tuberculin for tuberculosis, and no milk shall be sold in this
city from any aairy unless a certificate of the Food Inspector or
qualified veterinarl&n has been filed i th tn.., City Clerk,
showing that all the cows in said dairy have been tested and are
free from all the diseases mentioned herein The Fooa Trspector
shall be entitled to receive the sum of $2 00 per head for the
first ten head and fifty cents for each additional animal so
tested Such certificate shall be filed at least once a year and at
such other times as the City health Officer shall direct ho
milk shall be sold or offered for sale from ary cow not so examined
Additional certificates shall be immediately filed lox c,ovs aaaed to
anj aairy i ,, Shall be tl e duty of the City Clerk to keep a per-
manent record of all such certificates Cows found to be affected
witn any of tle forego_ng diseases shall be marked or branded for
identification by the Inspector No milk shall be sold which is
from a cow which shall calve within two weeks or has calved within
one week If any cow be sick or diseased the owner Lnereof shall
not offer for sale any milk therefrom, but shall, dt once, destroy
such milk or cream and shall notify the -ood Imzrector at once
of the fact of such sickness or disease The Food Inspector shall
have power to compel the isolation fro,n the herd of cows suffering
from contagious diseases No milk or cream shall be sold, given
away, or delivered which shall have been produced from any nouse
or premises there there is a communicable Disease
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ARTICLE III
ICE
Section 1 Fvery person desiring to engage in the business
of seliing ice with-r ` ie city shall, be"ore engaging in such
business, file a wri ten application with she City Clerk for a
license there"or stating in such application the name of the
apulicant, whether ae ice is manafactured, and if not, here the
.ame is to be or has been cut or gathered and the number of wagons
or vehicles intended to be used by said applicant for he delivery
thereof Upon so doing, and the payment of a fee or as- - ,
for each wagon or other vehicle intended to be used by such applicant
for the delivery of ice, a license may be granted to such applicant
All licenses granted under this section shall, unless sooner
II suspended or revoked, expire on the 31st day of December next after
the issue thereof
Section 2 All ice sold or delivered within this city for
domestic use shall be pure and free from matter deleterious to
health, fid such ice is hereby defined to be ice ihich, upon
chemical bacteriological examination, shall be found to be free
from nitrites and pathogenic bacteria and not to contain more than
5-1000 of 1 Fart of free ammonia and 5-1000 of 1 pait of albuminoid
ammonia in 100, 000 parts
`'ection 3 It shall oe the dutj of the Food Inspector
to examine or cause to be examined, ice o3fered for sale vithin
tYiis city, and the places where ice is manafactured stored and
kept anz the wagons or other vehicles from whicn It iq solo. or
aelivered to ascertain whether such ice is pure ana free Irom
-natter aurtful to health according to the foregoing stand-ird
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Section 4 Vvcry person selling ice or offering ice for sale,
shall at the tl>>e of delivery, if requested so to do by the
purchaser, weight the quantity of ice delivered, and for that
purpose, shall be provided with scales or other apparatus for weigh-
ing such ice which snall have been duly adjusted by the person
charged with the duty of inspecting weights and measures within
the city
ARTICLE IV
MEAT
Section 1 Ro meat shall be sold or offered for sale within
this city without first having been inspected and approved by
the Food Inspector or his authorized assisstants and deputies
No person shall kill or dress any animal or meat in any market or
store, nor have nor permit to escape therein or % ithin 100 feet
thereof any poisonou-,, noxious or offensive substance No blown,
tainted, raised stuffed, putrid, impure or unhealthy orunWholgsome
meat or fish, bird or fowl shall be kept, bought or sold, or offered
for sale for human food or held or kept in any market or any plgce
in this city To calf, pig or lamb, nor the meat thereof, shall be
bought sold or oifered for sale a. food in this city which, being
a calf, was when killed, less than four weeks old, ana when dressed
shall weigh less Lqan seventh"-five pounds or, being a pig, was,
when killed less tnan ^ive weeks old or, being a lamb was
when killed less than ein�nt weeks old No meagre, sickly or
unwholesome fish, bird or other fowl, or other fooa animal shall be
bought or sold, or oifered for sale as food in the city No meat
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No meat or dead arimals aoove the size of a rabbit shall be taken to
any market or store until the same shall have fully cooled and all
blood shall have ceased dripping therefrom, nor until the entrails
have been removed nor shall gut fat or any unwholesome matter or
thing be brought to or near such market No meat shall be sold
for food 4hen the same has been fed upon garbage swill carrion
offal or dead arimals
Section 2 The keeping and slaughtering of all cattle and
all other animals and the preparation and keeping of all meat -nd
fish, birds and fowls shall be in that manner hick is best adopted
to secure ana continue their safety and inolesomeness as food No
slaughtering, tanking or rendering shall b- permitted % itbin the city
nor within one bile olf the outer limits thereof without permit from
the C) y Clerk issued on the order o tie Food Inspector, and
all slaughter houses shall comply with the follo; ing requirements
No slaughtering shall be done in barns, sheds or other buildings
not designed and not suitable for slaughtering animals and for
the handling, dressing and cooling of meats, nor shall any slaughtering
be done outside of a building All slaughter houses shall have suit-
able floors and shall be properly drained All slaughtei houses
shall have an abunaant supply of water from an uncontaminated source
ana which may be supplied with adequate pressure through a hose
to any part of the room or rooms used for the slaughtering or pre-
paring meats for food The floors shall be thoroughly washed each
day after slaughtering is completed The walls and all exposed sur-
faces on the inside of uhe slaughter houses shall be cleaned by
washing or scraping as often as once in each month ana if the
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surfaces are not painted, they bliall be calcimined or white-washed
at least once a month Cooling and store rooms for meat shall be
properly ventilated All offal and refuse shall be removed from
the slaughter house on the day on slaughtering and be disposed of
in a sanitary manner All animals kept in yards attached to slaughter
houses shall be treated In a humane manner and if kept tlere over
twelve hours, snall be fed and watered All slaughter houses from
which meat is brou€ht into thiscity which are not under Government
Inspection shall be under the direct supervision of tie Food
Inspector No person shall sell or offer for sale within tiis city
any meat which does not bear the meat inspection brand or other mark
of the Board of Health or of the bnited States department of
Agriculture All inspection shall be made under the rules and
regulations of the United States Department of Agriculture the
inspector shall condemn and destroy, as provided in said regulationf,
all carcdtes or parts of carcases found to be unit nor food No
slaughtering shall be done in the absence of the Inspector or of
nis duly qualified assistants or deputies An ante-mortem and
Post-mortem examination shall be made of all animals slaughtered
for food The Inspector shall be treated in a courteous manner
and any violation of the rules ana regulations shall be the cause
for the withdrawal of inspection from than place The inspector
shall direct such disposition of such carcasas as he shall deem
proper Every dealer in meat shall cause the place where such
meats are kept or offered for sale to be thoroughly cleaned and
purified at least once in every twenty-four hours No dealer in
meat shall keep any refrigerator or ice boxes unless the same shall
be lined vith lead or some proper substance so ao to be water tlrht
nor unless the same be providea with a pipe of lead inc or copper
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leading therefrom to the proper waste pipe
Section 3 ^ieat slaughtering out-side of this city and
brought into this city for sale may be inspected and branded or
otherwise marked for identification by the Food Inspector or nos
assistants under the following rules to-vit till carcasses must
have the head q all viscera except the stomach, bladder aria in-
testines held together by natural attachment and all such carcasses
shall be brought to such place at such time as may be desingnated by
the Food Inspector or his assistants rh o shall be notified when such
meat is ready for inspection
ARTICLF V
Section 1 E�,ery person aesiiing to engage in she ba-ine�s
of selling meats poultry fish butter cheese laid vegetables,
flour meal or o ier provi�..ons n ended for human consumption,
shall before engaging in such business, file a vritten application
witn the Cit`, Clerk for a license therefor, stating the name of the
applicant ana the glace ; -sere sued business is to be ce ried on Upon
so doing, and he payment of a fPe of Dollars, a
license shall be grarted to such applicant All license granted
under this section shall unless sooner suspended of revoked expire
on tle 31st of December next after t e issue thereof
Section 2 Everj person being tle owner lessee or occupant
of G-y place other than a private dwelling house mere any meat,
fish poultry, game, vegetables, fruit of other nerishaole rtic,9V1s
of lood stall be stored or kept and every person engaged in the
care custoay or sale of any such articles of food supply shall
put preserve and ,eep suca articles in a clean ana wholesome
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conaition and ehcill not allow tie same, or any part thereof
to be putrid decayed )oisoned infected or in any other
manner rendered or madenot safe, or unwholesome for human food, and
it shall be the duty o" the `'ood Inspec or and his assistants to ent-
er any ana all such premises at anv time of any day and for
them to condemn seize and destroy any such putrid, decayea poison-
ed or infected food wh_ch may be found in said premises
Section 3 Po oerson shall expose for sale in riffs city
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any diseases, emaciated tainted or putrid meat provisions
ho person shall offer for sale the meat of any animal killed rhile
such animal was in an overheated feverish or disepsed condition
Pro person shall bring or cause to be brought into this city of
sell or o fer for sale any decayed or unwholesome fruit, vege-
tables or berries, nor keep or store any decayea or unwholesome fruit
vegetables, or rPrries It shall be the dutv of the Food Inspec-
tor having knowledge of such fact, forthwith to seize and destroy
all such meat and provisions fruit vegetables or berries
Sect on 4 It shall be 4be duty of every person knoiing
of any food sold or offered for sale in this city which is not
sound or in healthful or iholesome condition forthwith to report
such facts to the City Clerk
Section 5 No meat, fish fruit vegetables berries or other
articles of human t'ood or drink shall knowingly bE bought sold,
held or offered for sale i-abeled or any representation made in
reopect thereof under a faytlse name or quality, or under any
false representation whatsoever, resr -Ming its wholesomeness for
food or drink
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ARTICLE VE
Section 1 Any person firm, or cor-)oration vrYo violates
disobeys neglects or refuses to comply with or resists any o uhe
provisions o t11is ordinarce shall upon conviction oe ined in a
sum not less than Five Dollars and not -pore uhan Cne LTundred
Dollars except ab provided in ,iticle II `'ection 9 hereof
Section 2 All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflirt
or inconsistent herew_th are nereby repealed
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