The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-20
CITY ORDINANCES

CITY ORDINANCES
 cared for. When stored or kept in or iginal packing tub the metal top shall remain on the can when not removed during the process of dispensing, but when kept in a box or refrigerator used exclusively for ice cream, the cover of such box or refrigerator shall be deemed sufficient protection to con- tents; provided, however, that 1t shall 1 be unlawful to deposit the contents of any packing can in which ice cream is delivered by any manufacturer into another can unless the can into which such ice cream is deposited shall have been immediately prior thereto cleansed or sterilized with boiling wa ter or live steam.
 Sec. IA It shall be unlawful to sell, keep for sale, barter. exchange or deal in any adulterated ice cream or any frozen milk products not manufac- tured in accordance with this ordi- nance.
 Sec. 15. Ice cream shall be deemed adulterated within the meaning of this ordinance when it shall contain any salts of copper. oxide of iron, ocherS or any coloring substances deleterious to health, or if it shall contain boric acid formalin. saccharin. or any flavor ing matter deleterious to health, or if it is an imitation of ice cream or man ufactured under any conditions other than provided in this orAinance.
 Sec. 16 Harmless filler referred to in paragraph A of section 1 of this refined gelatine, gum tragicanth or other pure vegetable gum in quantity not exceeding the per centum permitted under the provisions thereof and the possession in any ice cream manufacturing plant of any substance prohibited hereunder by any person engaged in the manufacture of ice cream for sale, shall be deemed prima facie evidence of its illegal use in violation of this ordinance.
 Sec. IT. All persons, firms and cor porations engaged in the manufacture of ice cream for sale in the city of Birmingham shall provide adequate facilities for the storage of all milk, cream or skinned milk to be used in such manufacture and shall keep such materials when so stored at a tenn perature not higher than 50 degrees Fahrenheit, nor shall any unclean UT contaminated material be used in the manufacture of Ice cream, nor shall any ice cream that has been returned from a customer, for any cause, be re- frozen resold.
 Sec. IS. It shall be the duty of the officers of the department of health to make inspections from time to time of all places in the city of Birmfng- ham where ice cream is manufactured for sale. sold or disposed of in any manner, to see that the laws are being complied with constantly. All such of- ficers shall have the right at any time to enter and have full access to all such places; to all wagons, automobiles or other vehicles used for the trans nortaton of ice cream; to any factory or part thereof, devoted to the manu- facture of ice cream to all packages, containers, refrigerators, or other re- ceptacles supposed to contain ice cream. which has been sold, is to be sold or offered for sale, for the pur- pose of inspecting the same, and to take therefrom samples for the pur- pose of testing or analysing same. They shall also seal such packages and forbid their sale or other dis position. pending such test or analysis. when there is reasonable cause to be- lieve such cream Is impure, unwhole- some, contaminated or adu1terated.
 Sec. 19. No person, firm or corpora ton shall have in their possession with intent to sell any ice cream which is falsely labeled or branded or any con- tainer bearing the name of a manu- facturer other than the one who made the product contained therein or to otherwise misrepresent, in any way, the
  facturer thereof.
 Sec. 20. Every person engaged in the manufacture. sale, transportation or storage of ice cream in the city of Birmingham immediately on the oc- currence of any case or cases of in- fectious disease in himself, his family, his employees, or the family of his employees, or within the premises where ice cream is manufactured, stored, sold or otherwise distributed shall notify the department of health of such fact Sec. 21. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with any of the provisions of this ordinance be and the same are hereby expressly re- pealed.
 Sec. 22. Any person, firm or corpor ation violating the provisions of any section of this ordinance shall, upon conviction of such offense, be punished according to and within the limits pre- scribed in section 1216 of the code of Alabama.
 Approved, July 19. 1916.
 GEORGE B. WARD,
 President Board of Commissioners. true copy:
 C. B. LLOYD, City Clerk.