Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-15
Ordinance No. 4o7.

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 employee Of any person,
firm or corporation, shall open, keep or
maintain any butcher shop, or meat
shop in said city Of Fort Worth without
having first obtained from the city collec.
tor and assessor a license therefor, and
any person, firm or corporation, or the
agent or employee Of any person, firm or
corporation, doing business as a 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 oil kinds of fowl and game
and oil kinds of vegetables, in any guam
tity; provided, that the owners Of meat or
butcher shops who have paid their IL
cense may be permitted to peddle OF
hawk meat in. said city.
Sec. 2. No person, firm or corporation,
or the agent or employee OF such person,
firm or corporation, shall peddle or hawk
meat from a wagon or otherwise in 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-
strued as to include grocers who 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 hswkers of meat shall be
numbered in different series ofnumbers
from the shops. The city collector and
assessor shall keep register of all of such
1 license, and such license shall only be
transferred upon such register and to the
| bona tite purchaser of ard successor to
such person, firm 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 uuisances of
every description, and on failure thereof
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor,
and on conviction therto be fined not
less than So nor more than $50
Sec. 3 All meat shops STALL be under
| the control of the board of
health, who shall have power by 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 MS license and prohibition of all sales
Hereunder.
Sec. q. Any keeper of a meat shop, of
butcher or any hawker, or peddler of
meats, who shall knowingly sell or offer
Tor sale any diseased or impure meats,
Shall forfeit his license, and be fined ia
any sum not exceeding $50, and when
convicted before the mayor or recorders
court for violation OF this article his
license shall be deemed forfeited.
Sec z. ANY person, firm or corpora
ZION, or the agent or employee of any person,
agent or corporation, violating sections
! ana OF this ordinance shall, upon con
vlotion thereof in the recorder or mayors
Court OF this city, be punished by
fine in the amount of sucS
! license as set forth in said articles and
?, except where different punishment ia
herein prescribed; and each day such yio-
lation continues shall constitute a sepa.
rate and distinct offense.
Sec. 5 ANY person prosecuted under
sections or shall have such prosecu-
ton dismissed upon payment of said IL
cense aud all costs of prosecution.
oec. This ordinance Is not intended
TO include parties who sell the products
OF their own farm.
Sec 10. All ordinances or parts of or
dinanees in conflict with this are hereby
! repealed.
Sec. That this ordinance take Of.
iect from and after its publication acH
cording TO law.
This ordinance not having been an
proved nor disspproved within three DAYS.
as Is prescribed by the charter of said
city, takes effect the same as II annrovad
II. EARLY, Civ Secretary
Filed October ~, a. ID. 1856.
II EARLY. City Secretarv. u
Passed December z, A. d 1856.
Recorded December IL, 1856.
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