Imperial Valley press., 1916-03-10
ORDINANCE NO. s5.

facture or sale of dairy products
that are produced under unsanitary
conditions.
The Board of Supervisors of the
County of Imperial do ordain as fol-
lows:
Section l.. No person, firm or cor
poration, by themselves or their
agents, or employees, shall sell, eX-
pose for sale, or offer for sale, or ex-
change, present, or deliver to any con-
sumner, creamery, cheese factory. milk
condensing factory, or any other buy
er or consumer, any milk, cream, but
ter, cheese, condensed milk or other
products manufactured therefrom,
which has been produced in or by a
dairy, or factory of dairy products,
or that is or has heen handled in any
store or depot that is in an unsani-
tary condition.
! Section 2. A dairy shall be deemed
unsanitary within the meaning of this
act, among other causes that render
milk, or products made therefrom, un
clean, impure or unhealthy, in the fol-
lowing cases:
] (a) If the drinking water is stag
nant, polluted with manure, urine.
drainage, decaying vegetable or animal
matter
(b) If the yards or Enclosures are
filthy CT unsanitary or if any part
of such yards or Enclosures, other than
pastures, are made the repositories of
manure in heaps or otherwise where
it is allowed to fermeat and decay.
(c) If suitable milk house or room
is not provided and maintained, prop
erly screened to exclude flies and in
sects, for the purpose of cooling, mix
ing, canning, and keeping the milk.
Said milk house or room shall not be
located in or be part of any resi-
dence, or dwelling house. or any barn
or poultry house, and shall not be
used for any other purpose.
Cd If any milk or cream shall be
cooled, stored mixed, canned or kept
in any room or place which is occu-
pied by any person or persons as a
sleeping or living apartment, or occu-
pied by horses, cows, hogs or other ami
mails, or fowls of any kind, and if the
milk shall not be cooled to as low a
temperature as practicable within one
hour after it is drawn from the cows.
(e) If any urinal, privy vault, open
cesspool, horse stable, pigpen, stag
nant water, accumulation of manure
! or other filth shall be permitted with
in one hundred feet of any such milk
house or room, or within fifty feet of
any cow stalls or stanchiOns or other
: place where milking is done.
/ f) If the walls become SOiled with
. manure. urine or other filth.
(g) If to the interior Of cattle sta
bles, barns, milking sheds, milk house
or room, an application of lime white
, wash is not made at least once in two
years, or oftener if in the judgment of
the county health officer or deputy
health officers it is needed, or if in the
= hangers, or other receptacles from
, which cows are fed. decaying food OF
: other material is allowed to accumu-
late.
(h) If the pals, cans, bottles OF
other containers Of milk, or its pro-
: ducts. or the strainers, coolers o. other
, utensils coming in contact with the
=, milk or it's products. are not sterilizeo
by boiling water or superheated steam
n each and every time the same are
< used.
G) If the person or wearing appare
of the dairyman, his employees, OF
other persons, who come in contact
with milk and it's products, are soilec
or not washed from time to time with
e reasonable frequency.
, Cd If the milking utensils, and al
= parts and appliances of milk separa
t tors, are not at all times, during the
d washing, cleaning or drying thereof
: and when not in use. kept in suit
! able screened room or house or screened
receptacle, screened with wire eyclud
: ing flies and insects.
Section g. Every transient dairymar
shall provide a milk house or room
properly screened to exclude flies ant
9 insects, either portable or otherwise
y for the purpose of cooling, mixing
canning and keeping milk, and an!
VI transient dairyman who fails to pro
: vide such suitable milk house or room
IS within five days after the service Of
. notice upon him, as provided in the
next section shall be deemed guilty Of
misdemeanOr.
: A transient dairyman" is hereby
o defined to be any person, firm or cor
o poration engaged IN the dairy bushes:
! in the County of Imperial who has M
u fixed, permanent location, or wh(
moves about from place to place pas
s turing his dairy cows.
= Section 4. The county health off
Ger. and his deputies, shall inspect
{ the dairies, and other places where
e dairy products are prepared and hand
J. led, and keep a record of such inspec
tion, and upon evidence obtained tina,
any of the provisions Of this ordinance
: are being violated, the said county
health officer, or his deputies. shall
duly issue complaint against the per
/ son, or persons, responsible for sucl
; violation, and cause the same to be
+ prosecuted: Provided that the health
. officer or his deputy shall serve upor
= the owner or owners, or person ir
/ charge of said dairy found to be in
II an unsanitary condition, or dairy
n not supplied with a suitable screened
milk house, as provided in Section 8
. Of this ordinance, a written notice
S specifying the details of changes re-
t quired to be made to place such dairy
;. in a sanitary condition. or to provide
= a suitable milk house, as defined in
q this ordinance. Should such changes
h not have been made at the expiration
of two days after the date when the
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