Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-20
Ordinance No. 4OY.

An ordinance licensing and regulating
butchers, meat shops and meat peddlers
BE It ordained by the city council OF
the city Of Fort Worth:
Section !. No person, firm or corpora
ton, or agent or employe of any person,
firm or corporation, shall open, keep or
maiutain any butcher shop, or meat
shop in said city Of Fort Worth without
having first obtained from the city collec.
tor and assessor license therefor, and
any person, firm or corporation, or the
agent or employee Of any person, firm or
corporation, doing business as q meat
shop keeper, or butcher, within said city,
shall pay an annual license of S25 in ad-
vance, which said license shall authorize
such person, Arm or corporation to sell
In their shops within said city all kinds of
fresh and salt meats, fresh and salt fish,
sausage, and all kinds of fowl and game
and all kinds of vegetables, in any guam
THY; provided, that the owners of meat or
butcher shops who have paid their H.
cense RAY be permitted to peddle or
hawk meat Ia said city.
SIC. 2. No person, firm or corporation,
or the agent or employee OF such person,
hrm or corporation, shah peddle OF hawk
meat from a wagon or otherwise ia guam
titles less than whole carcass without
having first obtained from the city asses
sor and collector license therefor; and
any person, firm or corporation doing
business as peddler or hawker OF meat
as above set forth shall pay an annual IL
cense therefor of S25 in advance; provid-
ed, that nothing herein shall be so con-
stPued as to include grocers VINO sell any
salt or cured meats.
Sec. 3. Every such license shall
be numbered and contain the
name OF the person to whom issued, and
shall designate the location Of his meat or
butcher shop, and the license issued to
peddlers or hawkers of meat shall be
numbered In different series ofnumhers
from the shops. The city collector aud
assessor shall keep register Of all OF such
license, aud such license shall only be
transferred upon such register and to the
bona fide purchaser Of and successor to
such person, firm or corporation and their
said business
Sec, A. Every person who Is duly II
censed as herein required shall keep his
meat shop or stand properly cleaned and
free from ell foul smells and nuisances of
every description, and on failure thereof
shall be deemed guilty Of misdemeanor,
ana on conviction thereof be fined not
less than So nor more than $50
Sec. 8 All meat shops shall be under
the control Of the board of
health, who shall have power by a major
ity OF the board to declare any one OF the
same nuisance for good and sufficient
cause, which finding and a copy thereof
served upon the party licensed by the city
marshal, and shall operate as q cancelling
OF his license and prohibition Of all sales
Hereunder.
Sec. 6. Any keeper of a meat shop, of
butcher, or any hawker, or peddler of
meats, VINO shall knowingly sell or offer
LOT sale any diseased or impure meats,
shall forfeit his license, and be fined ia
my sum not exceeding $50, and when
oohYicteu before the mayor or recorders
court for violation oil this article his
incense shall be deemed forfeited.
Sec z. Amy person. firm or corpora
uon, or the agent or employee Of any person,
agent or corporation, violating sections
and OF this ordinance shall, upon con
vIction thereof In the recorder or mayors
court OF this city, be punished by
line in the amount OF such
license as set forth IN said articles / and
= except where a different punishment is
herein prescribed; and each day such VIC
lation continues shdl constitute seps-
rate and distinct offense.
sec Any person prosecuted under
sections or shall have such prosecu-
tion dismissed upon payment OF said Ii
oense ano All costs OF prosecution.
oec, y This ordinance is not intended |
" lheiuae parties who sell the products |
OF their own farm.
Sec. 10. ALI ordinances or parts of or