The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-27
An Ordinance
Regulating the Sale Of
Milk.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Board of Council of the City Of Paris,

Section l. That no person shall bring
or send into the city for sale any milk
without permit TO do so from the
Health Officer. said permit TO be fur
nished gratuitously by the Health Off
Ger to all applicants, and to be renewed
in one year 20 be valid.
Section 2. All milk wagons shall
have the name of the owner and the
nubmer Of the wagon orIvehicle painted
thereon plainlytand legibly.
Section 3. All grocers, bakers. and
other persons having or offering for
sale milk, shall at (alD times keep
the name or names of the dairyman or
dairy company from whom the milk for
sale was obtained, posted up in a con-
spicuous place wherever such milk
may be sold or kept for sale.
Section 4. No milk which is I'm.
wholesome or which has been watered,
adulterated, reduced, or changed in any
respect by the addition of water or
other substance, or by the rem oval of
cream, shall be brought into, heidi
kept, or offered for sale at any place
in the City of Paris, nor shall any one
keep, have, or offer for sale in the said
City any such milk, except as provided
for In this ordinance.
Section 5. The terms "adulterated
or unwholesome, as used in this
ordinance, are held to mean in this
ordinance:
First-Milk containing. more that
eighty-seven (87) per centum of water
or fluids.
Second-Milk containing less than
thirteen OBJ per centum of milk solid.
/ Thlrd-Milk containing less than
three and seven-tenths 90 per
/ centum Of fats, or having a specific
4 gravity of less that ten and twenty
! nine one-hundredths 1929.
FOurth-MiIk drawn from animals
within forty-five (45) days before,
or twelve (l2) days after parturiion.
/ Fifth-Milk drawn from animals fed
on distillery waste, or any substance
| in state of fermentation or putrifac-
ton, or on any unhealthy food or
drink.
Sixth-Milk drawn from cows kept
in a crowded or unhealthy condition.
Seventh-Milk from which any part
of the cream has been removed.
/ Fighth-Milk which has been adulte-
rated with water, or any other fluid,
or to which has been added, or into
which has been introduced, any foreign
substance whatever.
/ Ninth-Cream sold or offered or, kept
for sale as such must contain at least
twenty (20l per centum butter fat.
Section 6. No dealer in milk by
himself or his agent, shall sell, or have
] in his possession with intent to sell,
milk from which cream has been re-
moved in part or in whole, unless sold
as skinned milk and unless there shall
appear La conspicuous place on both
sides of the vehicle from which such
milk is sold the words skinned milk, -
distinctly and leeibly made in LETTERS
not less than one inch in height; nor
shall any dealer in milk. nor his agent
or agents, sell as skinned milk any
milk which has a less percentage of
casein and salts than that contained in
unskImmed milk.
Section z. Every dealer in milk sell
ing such skinned milk shall, on each
and every vessel from which he sells,
have attached in front and side, a
notice stating in legible letters that
such skinned milk is for sale.
Section 8. Any person who offers
for sale milk. SKINNED or unskimmed,
IN the City of Paris, whether a resident
or nonresident, shall furnish a sample
of such milk to any officer represent
ing the Health Department of the City
OF Paris who may reQuesr the same for
the purpose of examination or analysis.
Section g.. No dealer in milk, or
/ his agents, shall serve milk in bottles
to any dwelling or Their house that
/ mas in it any contagious disease or
/ diseases, or that is placarded by the
! Health Officer for contagious disease
or diseases, until sal" placard has been
removed by the proper authorities, nor
shall any person remove from such.
dwelling or house any bottle or recep-
ticle which has been .or is use for the
purpose of receiving or storing milk.
No person suffering from, or who has
knowingly, within a period of twenty
days, been exposed TO diphtheria. scar
Leftover, erysipeias. smallpox or other
dangerous contagious disease. shall
work or assist in or about any dairy or
dairy farm no proprietor, manager or
superintendent of any dairy or dairy
farm, who supplies milk to the city of
Paris, KY, shall knowingly permit
any person suffering. or exposed as
aforesaid, to work or assist in or about
said dairy or dairy farm.
Section TO- The Health Officer shall
not issue a permit to any person to sell
milk in the City of Paris who does not
furnish once In every three months the
Health Department with a certificate
from a duly qualified veterinary sur
geon to the effect that the cattle from
which the milk ne proposes to sell is
obtained are entirely free from disease
and said certificate shall be kept on
file in the Health Department, and shall
embrace a descriptive enumeration of
the cattle examined. The Health
Officer may require the tuberculin test
if any herd is suspected Of infection
withtuberculosis.
Section II. Every person maintain
ing dairy shall keep the same and
all appurtenances thereto clean and
wholesome at all times,s and shall +
change the water in the. coolers at