Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-12
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 employe OF any person,
firm or corporation, shall open, keep or
ma!utain any butcher shop. shop or meat
shop In said city of Fort Worth without
having first obtained from the city colec.
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 q meat
shop keeper, or butcher, within said city,
shall pay an annual license of S25 in adj
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
tityi provided, that the owners of meat or
butchers shops who have paid their H.
cense may be permitted to peddle or
hawk meat in said city.
Sec. 2. No person, firm or corporation,
or the agent or employe 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
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 II
ceEse therefor OF $25 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 hawkers of meat shsll be
numbered in different series ofnumbers
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 tide purchaser of and 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
Tree from all foul smells and nuisances of
every description, and on failure thereof
shall be deemed guilty of misdeneauor,
and on conviction thereof be fiued not
less than So nor more than $50.
Sec. 8. All meat shops s5all be under
the control of the board of
health, who shall have power by major
lty OF the board TO declare any one OF the
same a nuisance for good and sufficient
cause, which finding and copy thereof
served upon the party licensed by the city
marshal shall operate as a cancelling Of
MS license and a prohibition of all sales
Hereunder.
Sec. g. ANY keeper Of meat shop, or
butcher, or any hawker, or peddler of
meats who shall knowingly sell or offer
ior sale any diseased or impure meats,
shall forfeit his license, and be fined in
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 q. Any person, firm or corpora
ton, the agent or employee of any person,
agent or corporation, violating sections
l and OF this ordinance shall, upon con-
Vlction thereof in the recorder or MAYORS
court OF this city, be punished by
q hue in the amount OF such
license as set forth in said articles and
=, except where different punishment is
n , prescribed; and each day such vio-
latlon continues shall constitute a sepa-
rate and distinct offense.
sec g. ANY person prosecuted under
sectlons or shall have such prosecu-
tlon dismissed upon payment of said IL
oense aud all costs Of prosecution.
Sec. D. This ordinance is not intended
70 include parties who sell the products
OF their own farm
sec. 10. All ordinances or parts of or
olnances In CONFLICT with this are hereby
repealed.
Sec. H. That this ordinance take e.
lect rom and after its publication ac-
ms ordinance not having been ap-
proved nor disapproved within three DAYS,
as Is prescribed oy the charter Of said
cry taxes eiteot the same as II approved,
II. r EARLY. CIV Secretary.
flied October ~, A. ID. 1886.
- II. r. EARLY, City Secretary.
raised December Z, A. d 1856.
recorded December II, 1856.
H. X. EARLY, City Secretary.