Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-14
Ordinance No. 4o7.

An ordinance licensing and regulating
butchers, meat shops and meat peddlers.
BE 1t ordained by the city council Of
the city of Fort Worth:
Section /. No person, firm or corpora
ton, or agent or employee 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 employe Of any person, firm or
corporation, doing business as 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, firm 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
tity; provided, that tie owners Of meat or
butcher shops who have paid their IL
cense may be permitted to peddle or
hawk meat In said city.
SEC. 3 No person, firm or corporation,
or the agent or employee of such person,
firm or corporation, shall peddle or hawk
meat from wagon or otherwise In guam
titles less than whole carcass without
having first obtained from the city asses
scr and collector a license therefor; and
any person, firm or corporation doing
business as peddler or hawker of meat
as above set forth shall pay an annual Ii
cense therefor OF S25 in advance; provid-
ed, that nothing herein shall be so con-
strued as to include grocers who sell any
salt or cured meats.
,hn1
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 a different series OF mum bers
from the shops. The city collector and
assessor shall keep register OF all of such
license, and such license shall only be
transferred upon such register and to the
bona fide purchaser of ard successor to
such person, Arm or corporation and their
said business.
Sec. 4. Every person who Is duly IL
censed as herein required shall keep his
meat shop or stand properly cleaned and
free from all foul smells and nuisances of
every description, and on failure thereof
Shall be deemed guilty of misdeTneanor,
and on conviction thereof be fued 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 q major
ity OF the board TO declare any one OF the
same nuisance for good and sufficient
cause, which finding and copy thereof
served upon the party licensed by the city
marshal, and shall operate as cancelling
OF his license and prohibition OF all sales
Hereunder.
Sec. 6. Any keeper OF meat shop, of
butcher, o. any hawker, or peddler of
meats, who shall knowingly sell or offer
for sale any diseased or impure meats,
shall forfeit his license, aud be fined In
any sum not exceeding $780, and when
convicted before the mayor or recorders
court Tor violation OF this article his
license shall be deemed forfeited.
Sec. Z, Any person, Arm or corpora
ton, or the agent or employee of any person,
agent or corporation, violating sections
l and OF this ordinance shall, upon con
victlon thereof in the recorder or mayors
curt OF ihls city, be punished by
a line In the amount Of such
license as set forth in said articles | and
2, except where different punishment is
herein prescribed; and each day such vio-
AeNoh SuutluuSh cudll CUuStlLule s. SeDh-
rate and distinct offense.
Sec. s any person prosecuted under
sections | or 2 shall have such prosecu.
uon dismissed upon payment Of said H.
cense and all costs of prosecution.
sec, .. This ordinance is not intended
to include parties who sell the products
OF their own farm.
Sec 10. ALI ordldances or parts of or
alnances In conflict with this are hereby
repealed,
Sec. IL. That this ordinance take eff |
iect from ana after Its publication &C
oording to law.
This ordinance not having baen ap-
proved nor disspproved wltAie three DAYS, |
as Is prescribed by the CHARTER If said
city, takes effect the same as II approved,
II. II EARLY, CITY Secretary.
Filed October l2, A. ID. 1886.
II. r. EARLY, City Secretary.
Passed December 4, A. d 1886.
Recorded December IL, 1886.