The record-union., 1896-07-28
ORDINANCE NO. 49.
Creating the Office of Veterinary In
spectOr and Prescribing His
Duties.

The Board of Supervisors of the County
OF sacramento do ordain as follows:
Seetion !. The office of Veterinary In
SSpector of the county of Sacramento,
state or California, is hereby created I'm
med1ately after this ordinance shall take
erect the Board of Supervisors of the
county OF Sacramento shall elect veteri-
hold office at the pleasure of said board,
ana salary OF one hundred dollars per
month, and al! necessary travelling ex-
penses incurred while engaged in per-
forming the duties of his office. the
amount not to exceed the sum of twenty
nve dollars per month. No person shall
De eligible to this office who shall not be
ing certihcate from the State Veteri-
nary Medical Board, which certificate
shall nave been recorded in the office of
the county Clerk of the county of Sacra-
mento, and who shall not have been a
resident of the county of Sacramento for
a period or one year next preceding his
election, and who shall not be an elector
or the State of California
Section 2. 1t shall be the duty of said
Veterinary Inspector to visit all dairies,
slaughter houses, markets and other
Riaces from which milk, meat, poultry,
hsh or game are sold or supplied for
human food, and inspect the sanitary con-
dition of all places from which said arti-
cIes OF food are distributed. He shall
inspect all uVlng animals intended to be
slaughtered, and all meat, poultry, fish
or game offered or intended to be offered
for sale for human food, and shall at
all times, for the purpose of inspection
have free access to ali dairies, or other
places where any domestic animals are
kept; also, all slaughter-houses markets
and other places from which meat poul-
try, fish or game are sold, or offered to
be sold, or distributed for human food.
and any refusal to permit such entry and
access or any resistance thereof shall be
deemed a mlSdemeanOr.
Section 3. 1t shall as soon as possible
upon receipt of sufficient information that
any domestic animal within the county
OF Sacramento is affected with any infec-
t1ous or contagious disease examine said
animal, and II deemed necessary by said
inspector make the necessary examina-
ton or test according to the rules laid
down by the United States Bureau of
Animal Industry from which he shall OBJ
tain his diagnostic agents, and if said ami
NAL be found to be affected with any con-
tagloqs or infectious incurable disease
said Veterinary Inspector shall at once
notify the owner or person in whose pos
session said animal shall be, that said
animal is SO affected and request him to
deprive said animal of life.
Section 4. Upon the discovery Of any
animal affected with any contagious or
infectious diseases he shall prescribe and
apply such rules and regulations as in his
judgment the case may require for the
effectual suppression and eradication of
the disease.
Section 5. Said Veterinary Inspector
shall keep a record of all examinations
and tests made by him and file a monthly
report thereof with the Board of Super
visors.
Section 6. The Board of Supervisors shall
employ such assistants and furnish such
supplies and material as may be neces-
sary in carrying into effect the provisions
of this ordinance
Section Z. All ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed
Section 8. This ordinance shall take ef-
feet and be In force from and after it's
legal publication
Adopted July %, 1896, by the following
vote OF the. board: Ayes-Dreman, Todd,
Curtis, Jenkins and Morrison Unanimous
vote. j. NJ. MORRISON,
Chairman of said board.
Attest. (SeaL)
VIM. B. HAMILTON,
Jy2S-1ot Clerk of said board