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HomeMy WebLinkAbout00504ORDINANCE NC 501 An Ordinance relating to the sale of milk. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Pueblo, Colorado. Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or cause to be sold or keen for sale, any milk at any grocery store or other public place, or to peddle the same from any wagon or other vehicle in the City of Pueblo without first having obtained a certificate of registration from the Health Commissioner of said City for each wagon or vehicle so driven or used, and for each store or place where such milk is offered for sale; provided that nothing in this section shall apply or have any reference to hotels, boarding houses or restaurants where milk is used upon the premises or to persons selling milk at their private residences where not more than two cows are owned or kept. Section 2. The Health Commissioner is hereby authorized to issue a certificate showing that the person or persons, firm or corporation to whom the same is issued has complied with the ordinance and is duly registered, to any person or persons, firm, or corporation, being the owner or driver of any milk wagon, or being the owner, lessee or occupant of any place where milk is sold or kpet for slae upon wieitten application stating the name of the applicant, the street and number where such milk is to'-be sold; or if peddled, the kind of wagon to be used, the particular location of the dairy, and the name and residence of the person owning the dairy at which such milk is obtained, all of which shall be entered in a book to be kept for such purpose by the Health Commissioner, such certificate of registration shall be for the period of one year and the applicant shall pay to the Health Commissioner for the use of the City as fee for such registration, the sum of one dollar, and such certificate of registration shall not be transferable nor authorize the party registered to sell milk at any other place than the one named in such certificate. Section 3. All persons to whom such certificate of registry may be issued, shall post and keep the same in a conspicuous place in the room or place, or wagon or vehicle for which it was granted, and all persons registered and hereby authorized to peddle or sell milk from a wagon, shall forthwith sause the name of the person, persons, corporation or company holding such certificate of registry, and the number of such registration, to be plainly painted in letters and figures at least one and one— half inches in length in a conspicuous place on the outside of the vehicle, and shall keep the same plain and distinct at all times when used during the continuance of his said certificate. Section . It shall be the duty of all persons having milk for sale to furnish any officer of the Health Department, upon application with a sample of his milk so offered for sale, not less than three ounces in quantity, for the purpose of analysis and the inspection of the Health Department. Section 5. All pure milk shall be deemed to contain 12 per cent of milk solids and any hotel, boarding house, or restaurants furnishing milk to their boarderd, guests or customers, or any of them, containing a less quantity of milk solids than 12 per cent or a greater quantity of water than 88 per cent, shall cause to be posted and kept in a conspicuous place in the dining room where such milk is furnished for use, a card with the words "watered milk" plainly printed thereon in large letters, not less than three inches in length, so that the same may be plainly read from all parts of the room. Section 6. No milk shall be sold which is from a cow which will calve or which has calved within two weeks. No milk shall be sold from any dairy in which tuberculous or any other diseased cows are kept. No milk shall be sold from and dairy which does not in all respects conform to the rules and regulations from time to time adopted by the Health Commissioner. Section 7. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or offer or expose for sale any milk which has been skimed, or any milk, cream or buttermilk which has been watered, colored or adulterated in any way, or to which andy pre- servative has been added. It shall be unlawful, also, to sell or offer or expose for sale any milk which shall contain less than 12 per cent of milk solids one- fourth of which shall be fat, or to sell or offer or expose for sale any cream which contains less than 25 per cent of solids, two - thirds of which shall be butter- fat; provided, that skimmed or watered milk may be sold to any person who is in- formed at the time of the sale of its character and who shall use it only for his own individual consumption. Section 8. Any one violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined in a sum not less than five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars. Section 9. That Ordinance No 106 entitled "An ordinance concerning the sellin of adult- crated milk and providing a penalty for the violation thereof" passed May 15, 1893, be and the same is hereby repealed. Passed and approved Attest C.E. Ross City Clerk Spotember 14th A.D. 1896 Approved A.G. King Mayor (seal)