Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-23
Legal advertising
ORDINANCE NO. 276
AN ORDflN ANCE providing
FOR MILK INSPECTION

offer for sale, distribute, or have
in possession for sale or distribu-
tion, any milk or cream for human
consumption as milk or cream un-
less 1T conforms to the standards
of grading established by the Pure
Milk Law, Chapter 800, Statutes of
1923, of the State of California,
and the rules and regulations of the
State Department of Agriculture
for its enforcement. In addition
\ thereto, whole milk must contain
not less than So per cent fat.
/ SECTION II. The City Health
department shall create milk in
specting department and delegate
the actual work of inspection to an
inspector authorized by the De-
! .partment of Agriculture of the
State of California, who shall so
conduct an inspection service that
it shall meet with the approval of
the State Department of Agricul-
ture. The Health Department of
said city shall have power to for
mulate rules and regulations for
the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this ordinance.
! SECTION III. It shall be un-
lawful for any person, firm or cor
| poration, or agent or employee of
any person, firm, or corporation, to
sell, offer for sale, distribute, or
| have in possession for sale or dis
| tribution any milk or cream in the
! City of Ell Centre until a regis
! tration fee of one-tenth of a cent
! for each quart of milk distributed
! during the calendar month preced-
ing shall have been paid to the
City Clerk of said City, who shall
thereupon issue a receipt. therefor
and pay the same to the City Treas
| urer. Such fees shall constitute a
Milk Inspection Fund and shall be
paid ON or before the first day of
each month and shall be expended
solely for the enforcement of the
provisions of this ordinance in pro-
portion to the amount Of milk sold
IN this city as compared with the
amount of milk sold in other cities
served by the same inspector.
SECTION ". The receipt for
registration fees shall be deemed {.
permit allowing the sale of milk by
the person, firm, or corporation to
whom issued for the calendar month
in which the same is issued and
shall be posted in conspicuous
place either in the delivery war
gon or in the regular place of bust
ness of such person, firm, or cor
poration.
SECTION V. Any person, firm
or corporation or agent or en-
ployee of any person, firm or cor
poration, violating any provision of
this ordinance or any rules or re-
guiations made hereunder shall be
guilty of misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be punish
cd by q fine of not less than $500
nor more than 100000, OR by i'm
prisonment in the City Jail of the
City of El Centre or in the County
Jail of the County of Imperial, for
not more than three months, or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION VI. All ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict
with this ordinance are hereby re-
pealed.
< SECTION VII. The City Clerk
shall certify to the passage, adop-
tion and approval of this ordinance
and shall cause the same to be pub
lished once in the Imperial Valley
Press, u daily newspaper printed
and published in said City of Ell
Centre, and thirty days after such
publication this Ordinance shall
take effect and be in force.
Passed and adopted this 2lst
day of May, 1924.
3asTsE w. II. LAVAYEA,
President of the Board of Trustees
of the City of Ell Centre, Califor-
mia.
Attest:--
j. S. Loofbourow, City Clerk.
Re 7-----
l hereby approve the foregoing b,
Ordinance No. 276 this 21st day of
May, 1924
' M w. II. LAvAYEA,
President of the Board of Trustees
of the City of El Centre, Cali
fornia.
State of California
County of Imperial, )ss.
City of FL Centre, u
!, j. S. Loofbourow, City Clerk
of the City of Ell Centre, Califor-
MIA, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance No. 276 was
passed and adopted at a regular
meeting OF the Board Of Trustees
of said City of El Centre, held on
the 21st day of May, 1924, by the
following vote:
Ayes: Rice, Cary, .Havayea.
Noes: None.
Absent: Fawcett, Anderson.
That said ordinance was intro
duced at least five days prior to its
passage and was approved by tho
President Of the Board OF Trustees
Of said city on the 21st day Of
MAY, 1924.
Witness my hand and the seal
of said City Of FL Centre, this 21st
day Of May, 1924.
y. 8. LOOFBOUROW,
City Clerk of the City Of FL Cen.
tro, California.
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