The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
ORDINANCE NO. 2e38.

ORDINANCE NO. 1888.
AN ORDINANCE Creating the office of
Milk Inspector in the City of Topeka.
providing for his appointment and regu-
cream and ice cream in said city. pro
viding penalties for the violation thereof,
and repeating Ordinance No. PSI, APP
proved August 6. 1905, and all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict with
this ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR
AND COUNCILMEN OF THE CITY OF
TOPEKA:
Section l. There is hereby created the
office of Milk Inspector of the City of To-
be appointed by the Mayor. by and with
the consent of the council He shall be
graduate of an accredited veterinary col
lege. His term of office shall be for a
period of two years and until his successor
is appointed and qualified. He shall re-
ceive salary of Twelve Hundred Dollars
Isl. 200 per annum, payable monthly. Be
fore entering upon the discharge of his
duties, he shall give, bond in the sum
for the faithful performance of his duties.
Sec. q Ii shall be unlawful for any per
son. firm, or corporation to sell or offer
for sale any milk or cream for consump-
ton milk or cream or for the manu-
featuring of ice cream WITHIN the city
his name and place Of business, and the
particular location and number OF cows
producing said milk or cream, with the
that purpose, and paying registration
fee therefor in the sum of one mill per
for cream, and it shall be the duty of
each and every person, tlrin, or corpora
tion selling or offering for sale any milk
or cream for the purpose defined to keep
a daily record of the number OF gallons
or fraction thereof sold, and upon the first
of each and every month shall file with
the Milk Inspector true and correct
statement of the number of gallons OF
milk or cream so sold for the next preced-
ny I1n0n naVmRnt
said registration fee the City Clerk shall
issue to said person, firm, company or
corporation, paying said registration fee
and complying with all the. provisions Of
this ordinance, a regtSJra ton certificate
and, after receiving said registration certi-
ficate, such person, firm. or corporation
shall be authorized to sell milk and cream
in the City of Topeka during the time for
which such registration certificate is is
sued, unless it IS sooner revoked for cause,
and in such registration certificate, tho
City Clerk shall assign to each dairyman
paying said registration fee a number, and
this number shall be placed on the deltv-
cry wagon in plain figures not less than
two inches in length, and the name of
the owner of such wagon shall also appear
thereon. Said registration fee may be paid
semiannually and said registration certlfl-
cate shall expire on the SOth day of June
and the 31st day of December each year:
Provided. that for ice cream made from
cream heated to a temperature of 1870 de-
grees Fahrenheit, the location of the cows
producing the cream need not be given.
Sec g. UiNWHo9LEssofM NE, M nnS De DE-
in an unsanitary, poorly lighted or poorly
ventilated stable, or produced by cows not
cows that are fed on city slop or refuse
matter from any starch factory, decom-
posed feed, stable manure: bedding, or any
fermented other than clean, well cured
silage milk stored in an unsanitary
place or milk kept or delivered in vessels
not properly cleaned or vessels which are
rusted or in wooden vessels, or milk IN
which a sediment collects on standing. 1t
hrnV Inv fITl al
offer for sale, or exchange milk known as
''unwholesome milk The Milk Inspector
shall have authority to condemn unwhole-
some milk for food purposes.
Sec. 4. 1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son, firm or corporation TO offer for sale,
or have in possession with intent to ex-
change or sell, any milk from which any
cream has been removed, or from which
any strippings have been kept back or re-
| moved. Unless the utensils in which said
milk is stored and sold are marked in
clear letters showing the per cent of fat
| which such milk. contains, or be marked
| skim milk.
Sec. 5. 1t shall be unlawful for any per
| son, firm or corporation, to sell, offer for
sale or have in possession with intent to
| sell, any milk to which any water or other
| adulterants has been added, or milk show
| solids, which solids shall contain not less
| than 3.25 per cent Of fat, unless branded
per cent of fat the milk contains The
person purchasing the same must be in
formed by the salesman of said milk that
|
quired. 1t shall be unlawful to sell, offer
| for sale. or have in possession with intent
cows Ssit before the sixth day after freshening
and less than twenty days before fresh
| ing. 1t shall also be unlawful to sell or
offer for sale any cream containing less
| than eighteen per cent of fat, unless the
said cream be labeled showing the per
cent of fat contained therein.
| Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to sell or offer
| for sale any milk or cream which has
| been MIXED or handled by any person suf-
| fering from or exposed to any contagious
| or infectious disease, or milk or cream
creeks springs or other places liable tc
contamination from surface drainage OF
| milk having a temperature Of more thar
60 degrees one hour or longer after it Is
drawn.
Sec. l.. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person firm or CORPORATION to sell t 1 tt aol
| to sell, any milk or cream bottled in any
barn, living room. wagon, general store
or in any other room used for any pur-
pose other than the handling of milk ane
its products.
Sec. s. 1t shall be unlawful for genera
stores to sell. offer for sale. or have il
| their possession with intent TO sell, mill
| or cream In any but closed containers
| and such containers must not be opened
within such stores; or for any retailer Of
milk or other person, firm or corporation
to have for sale milk or cream on any
street in any but closed containers, and
such containers must not De opened fol-
the delivery of milk or cream or for any
! purpose other than procuring samples D3
the Milk Inspector.
Sec. g. Any physician finding a case Of
typhoid fever, diphtheria or scarlet fever
within the city shall ascertain the name
| of the dairyman furnishing milk to tbs
family in which the disease occurs and re
port at once to the Milk Inspector the
location of the disease and the name o.
the dairyn1an furnishing milk to the fam
lily Blu nothing in this section shall b,
construed to apply to regularly conducted
hospitals.
Sec. 10. Any person in the City of To
peka receiving milk, cream or ice cream
for sale, shall keep said milk cream OF
ice cream in a clean, well ventilated anC
sanitary place, and 1t shall be the duty
of said person to thoroughly cleanse al
milk, cream or ice cream utensils as sooI
as emptied. 1t shall be unlawful for an!
person or persons handling milk or cream