The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-01-25
COMMITTEE DRAFTS
NEW MILK ORDINANCE
MOSCOW CITIZENS CONVERS-
ANT WITH SUBJECT, PREPARE
LAW GOVERNING MILK.

At last Wednesdays meeting of
the chamber of commerce when the
milk ordinance was up for discussion
and was discussed, the president ap-
pointed committee to draft sub
stitute ordinance without the OBJ
jectionable features of the one al
ready passed, and the committee has
acted as requested by the chamber.
The committee is composed of G. P.
Mix, dairyman and farmer; Guy
Wolfe, attorney; j. E. Wilson, pro-
prietor of the Moscow Creamery;
Arnold S. Lyon, pioneer farmer and
president of the Farmers Union and
the Farm Bureau; and Professor H.
P. Davis, head of the dairy depart
ment of the University of Idaho.
The committee spent much time in
preparing the ordinance herewith
published, which will be submitted
to the city council with a request that
it be adopted in lien of the other
one, if the chamber of commerce
votes to adopt it at the luncheon next
Wednesday (tomorrow) when it will
be up for acceptance or rejection by
the chamber.
All dairymen and others interested
in the proposed ordinance are urged
to attend the meeting tomorrow The
proposed ordinance follows:
An Ordinance regulating the care
and sale of dairy products, pro-
viding for the testing of cows for
tuberculosis and disease, and for
the testing of dairy products, and
providing penalty for the viola
tion thereof.
The City of Moscow does ordain as
follows:
Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of any
person, firm or corporation, selling
or offering for sale, within the City
of Moscow, and raw milk or cream for
human consumption, to have the ami
mails from which the milk is pro-
duced, examined and tested for tuber-
culosis or other communicable dis
ease, and the premises where such
milk or cream is produced and pre-
pared for sale and delivery, examined
as to the sanitary condition thereof,
at least once each year, by compe-
tent veterinarian, and to furnish to
the city health officer, the certificate
of such veterinarian, showing the
health and condition of such animals
and the sanitary condition of such
premises Said certificate shall be
accepted by the city health Officer as
prima facia evidence of the facts
therein stated.
Sec g. It shall be unlawful for any
jerson, firm or corporation to sell or
offer for sale, within the City of Mos
COW, any raw milk or cream for hui
man consumption, from any premises
not so certified, or from any COW not
so utested and certified, or from any
COW or herd of cows tested and found
to be infected with tuberculosis or
other communicable disease; Provi-
ded, that in case a dairy herd is
found to have tuberculosis or dis
eased animals and such animals are
are promptly removed from the
premises and from contact with the
herd, or destroyed, and the veterin-
arian's certificate is furnished to
that effect, the sale of milk from
such herd shall not be prohibited
Sec. 8 1t shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation to
sell or offer for sale, within the City
of Moscow, any ray milk or cream for
human consumption, without first
securing from the City Health Off
Ger an annual permit to sell the same,
and such permit shall not be granted
without the inspection certificate re-
quired in Sections One and Two of
this ordinance
Sec. 4. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation with
in the City of Moscow, engaged in
retailing raw milk or cream for hu-
bacteriologist, chemist or. competent