The roundup record. [volume] (Roundup, Mont.) 1908-1929, 1911-11-10
DEALERS TO BE LICENSED
Law Eifecting Purveyors of Food
stuffs Will Go Into Effect
January l..

Much interest is manifest now
among merchants, restaurant men and
other purveyors of foodstuffs aud
other provisions to the law enacted
at the last legislature which provides
for the licensing of all eating houses
and other places Of business where
articles of food are sold or handled
The law, which goes into effect on
the first day of next January, Is one
of the most drastic ever placed on
the state books and the state health
department is already making exten-
sive preparations for it's enforcement.
The actual endorsements of the law is
in the hands of the city and county
boards of health but the state board
of health is given general supervision
of the work and also power to re-
move derelict health officers. The
county commissioners and city coun-
ellis MIS-: furnish the necessary funds
and assistance to properly enforce
the law.
Every bakery, confectionery, can
merry, packing house, slaughter house,
meat market, dairy, restaurant, hotel,
dining car and lunch counter must be
inspected every month and license
will be required before they are al
lowed to do business. The license
will be issued by the state board of
health on the recommendation of the
local board. The new law goes into
effect January I, 1912, and the section
relating to the method of obtaining
a license reads as follows:
Provisions of the Law
1T shall be unlawful for any person,
persons, firm or corporation to CON
duet any bakery, confectionery, can
merry, packing house, meat market, dai-
ry, restaurant, hotel, dining car or
lunch counter in the state without hav-
ing a license issued by the state board
of health, which license shall be is
sued by said board without charge
to the licensee; Provided, that such
license shall not be required before
January !, 1912. All licenses shall be
made to expire on the last day of De-
cember of the current year in which
they are and shall be renewed upon
the request of the licensee; provided,
that when the state board of health
upon request of the licensee shall
find the place for which such license
is issued is not conducted in accord
ance with the rules and regulations
of said board of health made and pro-
mulgated in accordance with this act;
then the said board shall revoke such
license and shall not renew the same
until such place is put in sanitary
condition in accordance with such
rules and regulations. License shall
be issued upon application made on
proper blank form supplied by the
state board of health and all licenses
shall be numbered consecutively. The
licensee shall keep such license plain
~ exposed in his place of business or
the number thereof, preceded by the
word license, painted on both sides
of each wagon used by him in letters
not less than two inches high and one
and one-half inches wide. The revO-
cation of a license issued under the
provisions of this section shall not be
construed as freeing any person or
persons, firm or corporation from
prosecution for violating the provis-
ions OF this act or of the rules and
regulations of the state board of
health issued in conformity with the
provisions of this act"