The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-27
LEGAL.


OF the disease and the name Of the dairy
man furnishing milk to the family. But
nothing IN this section shall be. construed
10 apply TO regularly conducted hospitals.
Section II. SANITARY PLACES AND
= IENS1L1S. Every person. firm or cor
poratlon, handling milk or cream or ice
cream for sale in the City, of Topeka,
shall keep such milk or cream or ice
cream in a clean, well ventilated and
sanitary place, and it shall be the duty Of
said person, firm or corporation to cause
all cans, bottles and other receptacles
used in the handling of milk or cream or
ice cream to be thoroughly washed and
then steriliZed with boiling water or live
as they are empty. Cans used for de-
livery of milk or cream TO depots, shall
be treated above at the depot and be
returned empty to the shipper. 1t shall be
unlawful for any person or persons nan
aling milk OF cream 70 use any OF me
or transporting any substance other than
milk or cream.
Section L. ICE CREAM; REGULA-
TION. 1t shall be unlawful for any per
son, firm or corporation to sell, offer for
sale, or have in possession with intent to
sell, ice cream that has been placed in
cans not properly cleaned or in ruSted
cans. or ice cream made from unwhole-
than IA per cent of butter fat; provided,
that fruit ice cream may contain as low
as Il per cent butter fat.
Section 10. UNHEALTHY COWS. 1t
| shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to sell, offer for sale. trade or
| exchange milk produced by unhealthy
| cows or by CO WIS MIXED or handled in the
| same stable corral or place of milking
where such diseased COWS are kept. The
| health of the COW shall be determined by
| a competent veterinarian.
| Section IA. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person. firm or corporation, to sell or
| offer for sale, any milk or cream within
| the City of Topeka, unless the cows pro-
ducing such milk or cream shah have
| passed the tuberculin test administered
| under the direction of the live stock
| sanitary commissioner, and shall be sub
sequently tested under the same authority
| q freQuenflV the Judgment
! the milk inspector. be necessary The
milk inspector shall have the authority
| visable, any approved test for tuberculosis,
| to any cow producing milk or cream for
| findings shall be final unless reversed BY
| the live stock sanitary commissioner; pro-
vided; that the provisions of this section
shall not apply to COWS producing cream
sterilized by heating to temperature of
100 degrees fahrenheit, and used in the
manufacture of ice cream.
Section 10. CONSERVATIVES. Any
milk or the products made therefrom
found to contain any form of preserVa-
tives shall be condemned for food by the
milk inspector and any person. firm or
corporation Offering for sale or selling
any such milk or milk products. or trad
ing or exchanging the same, in the City
of Topeka shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished as hereinafter provided
SCORE CARDS. 1t shall be the duty of
the said inspector to visit. or cause to be
Sary, all dairieS and suspect and score the
same according to the score card author
lied and used by the bureau of animal in
duStry of the United States Department
of agriculture, and he shall have the au-
thoritY to revoke the registration certifi-
cate of any one maintaining an unsatls-
factory dairy and of any one selling milk
card shall be left with the owner. and
such information given as will assist the
producer to improve the sanitary condi-
tions or remedy such defects as the score
be filed in the inspectors office. The said
inspector shall make reports to the city
clerk annually or oftener as the Com
missioner of Parks and Public Buildings
Section Il. INSPECTION: oUALIFt-
CATIONS: POWER; SAMPLES. The
inspector must be a competent man and
an examination. both oral and written
ITI,icI3 shall he frenared and ciyar under
the direction of the state dairy commits
sioner and the professor of dairy hus-
bandry of the Kansas State Agricultural
The said inspector shall have authority
to enter without previous notice any
salesrooms or any place where milk
cream or their products are kept, sold
or prepared for sale, and take such
amount as will prove a sufficient sample
to perform the necessary tests such as
may be desired by the said inspector.
milk indicating the presence of water
or the removal Of fat, it shall be his duty:
whenever practicable, TO Visit Ine hero
where such milk is produced and see the
herd MIXED and the milk mixed. after
which he shall take a sample of milk and
seal the same with the seal of his office
and keep the sample locked in a cool
place until he has secured a sample OF
The next regular milking. The sample
must rrr be in proportion to the milk given at
each milking. The per cent Of solids not
fat. and the fat Of these collected samples
shall be con sidered the standard of the
said herd provided these samples are
collected within four days from the
time the suspected sample was collected
and tested.
Section IS. MILK WAGONS; INSPEC-
TOR; DUTY. The inspector of milk
shall provide himself with proper instru-
he shall have authority to stop any
wagon or person carrying milk for sale
or selling or Offering for sale in the City
of Topeka at any time or place ana either
test or procure a sample of the same;
provided, the inspector Of milk shall not
detain any wagon or person engaged in
carrying milk for a longer period than
| is necessary to test the same and may
| con--scate such n14k If found unwhole-
! some as specified in this Ordinance, and
shall arrest and prosecute any person
found selling, exposing or Offering for
sale, any milk in violation of this Ordi-
Section 10. INSPECTOR; TEST OF
| SAMPLES. The said inspector may have
| tests made of milk samples for fat, adul-
| iteration by water or any solid or liquid
for preseratives, or bacterial contents, or
the bacterial contents of water used for
| to the director of experiAent station at
Manhattan. Kansas. with description of
! test desired. The result of such test shall
! be taken as correct
Section 20. INSPECTOR: RULES AND
! REGULATIONS The inspector shall
have authority by and with advice of
| the state dairy commissioner and inter
! ested dairymen to formulate rules ard
/ regulations for carrying into effect the
provisions of this ORDINANCE which shall.
| missioners of the City of Topeka, be in
force and effect binding as parts of this
| Ordinance.
| Section 81 PENALTY. 1t shall be I'M
| lawful for any person, firm or corpora
| ton. or any officer, agent, servant or
! employee of such person. firm or cor
| poration, to violate any of the provisions
| of this Ordinance; and any person, firm
/ or corporation. or any officer, agent, SER
| rant or ernrlnvae of such nerson. firm