The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-05-05
HOUSE BILL No. l49
By Committee on Public Health
AN ACT


AND SLAUGHTER YARDS; PROVID-
ING FOR INSPECTION OF PLACES
WHERE MEAT AND MEAT FOOD PRO-
: DUCTS ARE PREPARED AND FOR IN
SPECTION FEES AN CERTIFICATES;
PROHIBITING THE OPERATION OF
THE PLACES MENTIONED IN THIS
TITLE WITHOUT A CERTIFICATE;
PROVIDING FOR THE SANITARY
HANDLING, CARE AND INSPECTION
OF MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS, AND
THE CONDEMNATION OF THE SAME;
PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE
VIOLATION OF THE SAID REGUEA-
TIONS AND PROVISIONc.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF IDAHO;
Section 1. All slaughtering, packing,
meat canning, sailing, rendering, or SINH
lar establishments whose meat or meat
food products, in whole or in part, enter
into commerce, shall be prepared under
the following rules, regulations and provi-
sions, and q failure upon the part of any
person or persons, corporation or corpora
lions to comply with the said rules, regula-
tions and provisions is hereby declared to
be unlawful and shall be punished as pro-
vided for in Section %.
Sec. 2. All person or persons, corpora
ton or corporations owning, leasing or con-
Quoting any establishment or establish
ments in which animals are slaughtered, or
meat or meat food products are prepared,
cured packed, stored, or handled shall
suitably and adequately light and ventllate,
and maintain the same in sanitary condl-
ton. Said persons or corporations shall
require that all work performed in such
establishments shall be done in clearly
and sanitary manner.
Sec 8. AL person or persons, corpora
ton or corporations shall frequently white
wash and paint the ceilings, sidewalks,
pillars and partitions of said establishment
or establishments and shall render the
same sanitary by frequent washing and
scraping Where floors or other parts of
the b ilding or tables or OTHER part OF the
equipment are so old and in such condi-
ton that they cannot be readily made SAM
tary they shall be removed and replaced
by suitable materials, or otherwise put IN
condition acceptable to the Dairy, Food and
Sanitary Inspe, tor. All floors upon which
the meats are piled during the process of
curing shall be so constructed that they
can be kept in clean and sanitary cond1-
ton, and such meats shall also be kept
clean.
Sec. A. All trucks, trays and other re-
ceptacles, all chutes, platforms, racks,
tables floors and other devices used in
carrying on the work of the establishment;
and all knives, saws, cleavers and other
tools and all utensils and machinery used
in the moving, handling, cutting, chopplng,
mixing, canning or other processes shall be
thoroughly cleaned daily, before and after
being used ~.
Sec. S. The aprons, Smocks, or other
outer clothing of employees who handle
meat in contact with such clothing shall
be of such material that is readily scleansed
and made sanitary, and shall be cleansed
daily if used. Employees who handle meat
or meat food products shall be required
to keep their hands clean.
Sec g. Said person or persons, corpora
ton or corporations aforesaid shall provide
ample and sufficient toilet rooms, urinals
and dressing rooms and the same shall be
entirely separated from compartments in
which carcasses are dressed and meat and
meat food products are cured, stored,
packed, handled and prepared. Said toilet
rooms, urinals and dressing rooms shall
be amply fitted and supplied with lavatory
accommodations including soap, ample
water supply and towels and shall be prop
erly lighted, suitably ventilated, and kept
in sanitary condition.
Sec Z Said person or persons, corpora
ton or corporations aforesaid shall venti-
late all rooms or compartments in which
meat or meat food products are prepared,
cured, stored, packed or otherwise handled
in manner acceptable to the State Boaro
of Health, and shall cause said rooms or
compartments to be SO located and con-
structed that odors from toilet rooms,
catch basins, casing departments, tank
rooms, hide rooms and other sections
of said establishment do mot perme-
ate them; and all rooms and COM
partments shall be provided with cuspidors
which employees, who eXpectorate, shall be
required to use. All outer doors and win
dows shall be screened against flies and
other insects.
Sec. 8. Said person or persons, corpora
ton or corporations shall not knowingly
employ, in any of the departments of the
establishment or establishments where car
cases are dressed, or meats handled, or
meat food products prepared, any person
afflicted with tuberculosis or any other
communicable disease, and any employe
suspected of being so affected shall be
reported by the manager Of the establish
ment to the State Board of Health
Sec 8. Said person or persons, corpora
ton or corporations shall not fatten hogs
or other animals on refuse of slaughter
houses, and shall keep all animals in
proper pens at least one hundred (100)
feet from the slaughter house No use,
incompatible with proper sanitation, shall
be made of any part of the premises on
which said establishment is located. All
yards, fences, pens, chutes, alleys and all
appurtenances belonging to the premises
of such establishments shall, whether they
are used or not be maintained in a sani-
tary condition.
Sec. 10. All butchers who dress dis
eased carcasses shall cleanse their hands
of all grease and then in prescribed dis