The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-03-23
ORDINANCE NO. 5O2


An ordinance regulating the sal
and care of milk and cream, prOhit
iting the sale Of unwholesome or ad
liberated milk or cream, providin
for testing mich COWS for tuberculo
sis and other communicable diseases
providing for the issuance of permit
for the sale or delivery of milk O
cream, prescribing certain duties TO
the health officer, providing a pen
atty for the violation thereof, and re
| pealing ordinance No. 500.
Be it ordained by the mayor ant
council of the city of Moscow:
Section 1.
| 1t shall be unlawful for any person
firm or corporation to have for sale
offer for sale, sell, or bring within
the city any unwholesome or adulte-
rated milk or cream for human con
sumption.
Section 2
The term "adulterated," when used
in this ordinance with respect to milk
means:
a. Milk containing more than SO
per cent Of water or fluid.
b. Milk containing less than per
cent of milk solids other than fat.
c. Milk containing less than 80
per cent of butter fat.
d. Milk drawn from animals within
Is days before or days after par
turition.
e. Milk drawn from animals fed on
any substance in state of putrefac-
ton or rottenness or any unwhole-
some food.
f. Milk drawn from cows kept in
a crowded. insanitary or unhealthy
condition.
G. Milk from which any part of the
cream has been removed.
h. Milk which has been diluted,
with water or any other fluid, or toI
which has been added, or into which
has been introduced, any foreign sub
stance whatever.
j. Milk which has not been prop
erly cooled to a temperature lower
than So degrees Fahrenheit, or which |
contains an excess of bacteria.
j. Milk having a specific gravity
Of less than 1.019 at so degrees.
k. Milk containing any pathogenic |
bacteria.
L.. MILK COuLd1ulA5 ally UOl dSlC VI |
3alicylic acid, formaldehyde or other
foreign chemical, or any preservative
m. Milk cOntaing bacteria of any
Wind more than 100000 per cubic CEN
imeter.
H. Milk drawn from any COW hav-
ng communicable disease or from any
;ow or cows In herd which contains
ny diseased cattle, or from a COW or
OWs in herd the attendants of
which are afflicted with or have been
exposed to any communicable disease
O. Milk which shows dark gray,
lack or other sediment at the bot
ON of any bottle or other vessel in
yhich it is contained.
p. Milk kept in refrigerators with {
egetables or other products, unless t
he milk is sealed in bottles. +
Section
The term "adulterated", when used
| this ordinance with respect to :
ream, means any cream taken from !.
dulterated milk, as described in Sec :
on 2 Of this ordinance, or any cream !.
ito which any foreign substance has
cen added or any cream containing
,ss than Is per cent of butter fat.
Section
1t shall be unlawful for any person, :
rm or corporation to have for sale,
fer for sale, sell, or bring within
lie city any milk or cream, for hu-
an consumption, obtained from any
limal or animals, which have not
zen tested, in the manner approved
: the Bureau of Animal Industry of
e State of Idaho, for tuberculosis or
her communicable diseases, within
le year prior thereto Provided,
'wever, that this section shall not
ply to any person, firm or corpor-
ion engaged in selling or manufac-
ring milk or cream, or their pro-
lets, who does not produce any milk
cream.
Section
1t shall be unlawful for any per-
n, firm or corporation to prepare,
ndle, bottle, cool, store, offer to
IL or sell any milk or cream, for
man consumption, at any place or
any room or building, within fifty
1t of any privy, cess-pool horse or
W stable, chicken house or chicken
Ost.
Section s
1t shall be unlawful for any per-
4, firm or corporation to have for
lie, offer for sale, sell, or bring with
the city any milk or cream, for
man consumption, without first
wing obtained from the health Of
er of the city permit in writing,
.horizing such person, firm or cor
'ation to engage in such business. -
Section z =
APPLICATION for permit to engage
the business mentioned in section
this ordinance shall be made to
health officer. There shall &C.
npany the said application GER
cate of competent veterinarian,
ed upon recent examination and
!, to the effect that all animals
hin the herd, or coming in contact
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