Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-21
Council Bluffs
MILK ORDINANCE
Draft By Solicitor Kimball Now in
Hands of Council Committee.
OUTLINE OF ITS PROVISIONS
IL Embraces Ideas of DsIrymen and
City Officials, who Attended Con-
terence Held Friday
Evening.

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come before the city council at its meeting
tonight, but will probably be in shape to
be introduced at the regular meeting in
July. The ordinance as drafted in the
rough by City Solicitor Kimball is now in
the hands of a special OF the
city council, composed Of Councilmen Jen-
sen, Morgan and Olson. This committee
will meet Tuesday evening with a com
mittee from the local dairymen's associa-
ton to further discuss the proposed meas
ure. The committee from the dairymen's
association consists Of Henry Sporting, j.
w. Taylor, president of the association. and
Charles J. Dills.
The following is an outline OF the or
dinance as redrstted by City Solicitor Kim
ball following the conference held Friday
night at the city hall between the city Off
cials and the dairymen:
Prohibit sale of milk, cream or icecream
in Council Bluffs except by licensed milk
dealers, dairymen or individuals, but any
person may sell icecream made Of milk or
cream purchased from one licensed to sell.
Require all persons selling milk or cream,
or icecream not made from milk or cream
furnished by a licensed dealer, to take out
a license, and exhibit license numbers upon
all wagons, carts or milk depots; clerk to
give each ~licensee a number. Fee for
license to be a fixed amount per COW or
six gallons of milk sold per day on an
average Tor the year. Gallon rate to apply
where dealer does not keep his own cows:
Rate to be fixed either to cover cost of
testing cattle or otherwise as datrymen may
elect.
All persons licensed to sell milk shall
within six months after license is issued
have all cows tested by some graduate
veterinarian for contagious or infectious
diseases, including tuberculosis, and once
each year thereafter, and nave such animal
suitably tagged so that the food inspector
can determine that they have been tested,
or where milk and cream are shipped into
the city and derived from sources not under
the control of the dairymen, that II shall
be pasteurized in accordance with rules OF
the Board of Health, the same to apply TO
milk and cream used for making icecream.
The cost of examination and testing OF
cows to be borne by the dairymen, or the
sum of 81 per COW may be added to the
license fee and the city shall provide a
veterinarian to test the cows and may
designate and employ at the price not to
exceed the license fees for such purposes, a
suitable veterinarian to make such exam
The food inspector shall, in additlc% to
duties now prescribed by ordinance, be re-
qulred to examine at least four times each
year all the diaries. animals, COWS, wagons
depots, pasteurizing apparatus ana uten-
sile of each and every licensed person sell
ing milk or cream, or ice-cream not pro-
duced from milk obtained from one having
a license, and make such examination in
accordance with rules fixed by the Board
of Health. For this purpose any person
taking out a license to sell milk or cream
or ice cream, shall furnish to the city
clerk the necessary data to enable the city
to inspect and examine and determine all
matters provided by this ordinance. That
the food inspector shall frequently furnish
to the health officer of the city, samples
OF any milk to be tested that he may deem
necessary or think injurious to health. for
the proper examination, and said food IN
spector shall see that every person licensed
to sell milk has his milk or cream tested
by the state deputy food and dairy com
missioner, and IL such commissioner fails
to make such test. the food inspector shall,
with the health physician, make all neces'
sary tests. .,
That IN case any person licensed to sell
milk shall fail to comply with all the re-
quirements of the ordinance, the license
shall be revoked upon proof brought by
the food Inspector before the city council
which shall determine the matter and nc
person whose license has been revoked
shall be given a new license until all re-
quirements of the ordinance and the RUE.
OF the Board OF Health have been compiled
with satisfactory to the food inspector.
That in addition to the revocation OF thu
said license, any person violating any OF
the provisions of the ordinance, shall, upoT
conviction. be deemed guilty of a misde
meanor and any person who sells milk
cream or ice cream as prohibited by tn
ordinance without having obtained {
license. shall be deemed guilty OF a mis-
demeanor. AND uron conviction, punished
as is provided by law.
That ali milk or cream tsold within tn,
city of Council Bluffs shall be delivered
from the dairy to the consumer IN original
closed packages. and when delivered II
ouaAtities Of less than two quarts, shall
he delivered In glass bottles suitably closed
That all milk which Is not furnished BY
the dcaltrs from cows which have been ex
arnincd and tested Is is provided In thii
ordinance. shall have the packages II
which n Is delivered marked in some nan
ner MS nasteuriZed. and NAV be marked b!
a nrinted panor STOPPER in the bottle.
That no mix or creau shall be sold a
certified or using the FORD certified therein
unless the same shall have been bottled
or canned at n dairy OF which the COW
shall have been tested according to tn,
ordinance of the Board OF Health ant
which shall have been inspected by tn,
food inspector at least four times eacl
year and which milk does not contain a
all times when so sold. at least 4 per cen
of butter fat and which Is not produce,
and delivered in accordance with the rule
OF the Board OF Health and the provis
ions OF the ordinances.
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