Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

No. 111s, Al [Published June q, 1913.
AN ACT-To create section 1492ea, of
the statutes relating to the inspec-
ton of SlaughterhouSes, and provid-
ing penalty.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly, do
enact as follows:
Section 1. There is added to the
statutes new section to read: Sec
ton 1492ea. /. All slaughterhouses in
and supervision by the United States
government and by officers and per-
sons in its employ shall be inspected
and supervised by the state board Of
health, and it shall be the duty of said
board to inspect or to cause each such
slaughterhouse in the state to be in
spected at least once each year. The
health officer Of any township, incor
slaughterhouse is located shall, upon
complaint or upon the request of the
state board of health, make such in
spection of slaughterhouses as may be
required to keep them in sanitary
condition. Any violations of the rules
and regulations adopted by the state
|. board of health for the sanitary care
and construction of slaughterhouses
shall be promptly reported by the local
health officer to the state board of
health in such manner as the state
board Of health may determine in it's
rules and regulations.
g. The state board of health shall
have authority and it shall be it's duty
to enforce all laws of the state relat-
ing to slaughterhouses, and the board
shall have power to make and enforce
necessary rules and regulations relat-
ing to construction and operation so
as to prevent unSanitary or other con-
ditions inimical to the public health,
in or about SlaughterhouSes subject to
such inspection and supervision, and
the board may, upon it's own motion
or upon written complaint, inspect and
examine any such SlaughterhouSe, and
if it shall find that the same is being
operated in an unsanitary manner or
that the same is SO located construct
ed, drained ventilated or maintained
as to be dangerous Or inimical to the
public health, the state board of health
shall make such order or orders as
may be necessary to properly rectify
and remedy any such method or man
SO as to protect the public health.
Such order shall specify the time with
| in which the same shall be complied
WITH and shall be delivered in per-
son to whom the same is directed The
rules and regulations adopted by the
state board of health in conformity
with this section shall be published in
the official state paper and when so
published they shall have the force of
law.
8. The state board of health or it's
duly authorized representative or
agent has the right to at any time en-
ter any slaughterhouse and to go upon
any premises connected Herewith for
the purpose of inspecting the same.
4. 1t shall be the duty of any per-
son, firm or corporation owning any
building which is used or operated as
a slaughterhouse in this state at the
time this section goes into effect, and
which is not subject to federal inspec-
ton, or if such owner is a non-resi-
dent of the state, then of the person,
firm, or corporation operating any
state board of health in writing, on or
before August /, 1913, describing the
location and construction of such
building so used or operated and the
location and construction of all such
buildings hereafter used or operated as
O. slaughterhouse, which have not al
ready been reported to the state board
of health and which are not subject
ed to said board of health within ten
days after the same is first used or
operated as a slaughterhouse. Such
report shall be made by the owner of
state, and if not, then by the person,
firm or corporation operating the same
as a slaughterhouse.
5. The owner operator, or person in
charge of any slaughterhouse in the
state Of Wisconsin, upon whom an or
der shall have been served by the state
board of health as herein provided,
| may appeal from such order and shall
be granted a hearing before such board
at its next regular meeting, provided
such appeal Is made in writing and is
filed with one of the members of such
board or with it's secretary. The state
board of health shall have power to
affirm, repeal or alter such orders, and
each member thereof or the secretary
may for the purposes of any such hear
ing administer oaths and take testi-
, mony and subpoena and compel the at
tendance of witnesses in the manner