Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-13
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An ordinance licensing and regulating
butchers, meat shops and meat peddlers.
BE II ordained by the city council OF
the city OF Fort WORTH
Section D, No person, tlrm oE corpora
ton, or agent or empluye Of any person,
Arm or corporation, shall open, keep or
maiutAln Uny bCscher shop, or meat
shop IN said city OF Rort Worm without
having irst obtained from the o,ty eollee.
tor and assessor license therefor, and
any person. arm or corporation, or tho
agent or employee VI any person, hrm or
corporation, doing businoes as a meat
shop keeper or butChvr within said city,
shall pay an annual license " $50, In adj
vance, which said license shall authorize
such person, firm or corporation 30 sell
la their shops within said city all kinds Of
fresh and salt meats, fresh ana salt fish,
sausage, and all kinds of fowl aud game
aud all kinds OF vegetables, IA any guam
tlty provided, that the owners OF meat or
butcher shops who have paid their IL
oense may DO permitted TO peddlo or
hawk meat In said olty.
S,c2. No person, llrm or corporation,
or the agent or employee Of such person,
! firm or corporation, shall peddle or hawk
meat from wagon or otherwise Ia euan-
titles less than whole oaTcass without
having frst obtained from tho city asses
SCR and collector license Therefore and
any person, iiTn or corporation doing
business as peddler or hawker Of meat
as above set forth shall pay AN annual IL
cenee therefor of s25 IN advance; provid-
ed, that nothing herein Ahall DO 70 con
etrucd as to include groeers who sell any
salt or cured meats.
Sec g. Every such licenee shalt
be numbered aud contain the
name OF the person TO whom Issued, aud
shall designate the location OF hla meat or
butcher shop, and the license Issued TO
pVddlers or hawkcra OF meat shall DO
numbered Ia different series OF numbers
from the shops. The city collector and
assessor shall keep "a register Of oil OF auch
licenfe, aud such license shall only BIO
transferred upon such reglster aud TO the
bona fide purchaser Of and successor 10
such person, arm or corporation and their
said business,
Sec T. Every person who IL duly H.
censed as herein required shall keep his
mont shop or stand properly cleaned and
free from oil foul smells and nuisaDcca OF
every description, and on failure thereof
shall be deemed guilty Of mlsdoineanor,
and on conviction theri oil DO llped not
less than 40 nor more than 500.
See. 8 All meat shops shall be under
the control Of the board Of
health, who shall have power by major
lty Of the board 70 declare any one Of tho
same nuisance for good and sufficient
cause, which finding aDc copy tnufcVf
served upon the party ceneed ny the city
marshal, and shall opente ~ q cancelllng
u his license and q prohibition OF all sales
hereunder,
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butcher, OF any hawker, or psddler OF
meats, who shall knowingly sell or offer
for sale any diseased or impure meats,
shall forfeit his license, and bo fined In
any sum not exceeding $50, and when
convicted before the mayor or recorders
court for violation OIL this article his
license shall be deemed forfeited.
See 7. Any person, arm or corpora
ton, or the agent or Cmploye u any person,
agent or corporation, violating sections
and Of this ordinance shall, upon cone
yictioD thereof Ia the recorder or mayors
court Of this city, be punished Dy
fine IN The amount Of such
license as set forth in said articles and
2, except where O different punishment ~
herein pFescribedi and shch day such pio-
lation continues shall constitute sepA-
rate and distil Ct uheDse,
Sec y ANY person PIbhhsuteA u"NNi
rections or shall have such pfosecn-
I ton Dismissed upon payment of said IL
cepse and al costs % prosecution.
Sec. This ordinance ~ not intended
10 Include parties who sell the products
| Of their OWN farm
Sec TO- An ordinances or pafts OF or
dlnances IN conflict vita this are hereby
repealed.
see II That this ordinance take eff
feet from ana after rs publication ac'
cordng 70 Law.
This ordinance not having been APP
proved nor dishpproyed within three days,
~ is prescribed by the charter Of said
city, takes erect the same az II approved,
IL. EARLY, Cry Secretary.
Filed October ~, A, ID. 1886
! II h EARLY, CITY Secretary.
Passed December Z, A. y 1856.
Recorded December IA, 1886.
H. Il. EARLY CITY Secretary