The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-02

TION OF ANIMALS TO BE
USED FOR FOOD.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE
BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF
THE CITY OF WATERBURY:
SECTION 1. APPROVAL OF
MEATS. No meat of cattle, calves.
swine, goats or sheep shall be sold
or offered for sale or kept with
the intent to sell, for human food,
or used in manufacturing food
products, within the City Of Wa
| terbury, unless the same shall
| have been inspected and approved
| by the meat inspector or the in
speeding agent of the City of Wa
| terbury, and has been stamped or
| tagged by such inspector or In
specting agent, but this section
shall not apply to meat inspected
and approved by the authorities
of the United States in accordance
with the laws of the United States.
SECTION 2. SLAUGHTERING
OF ANIMALS TO BE USED FOR
FOOD. No person shall slaughter
| any cattle, calves, sheep, swine or
goats within the limits of the City
of Waterbury except in the Mum
icipal Slaughter House of said
| City, or in a slaughter house IL
censed by the Board Of Commits
sioners of Public Health Of the
! City of Waterbury, except In cases
where the transportation of an
animal for slaughter to said
Municipal Slaughter House would
be dangerous or impracticable and
in such cases only when the mum
icipal inspector or inspecting agent
shall have been notified before the
slaughter and given an opportunity
to be present and IL the municipal
inspector or inspecting agent Is
unable to be present or Is not pres
ent at such Strengthening, the
carcass with viscera and head at
tached by their natural attachments
shall be presented to tho municipal
| inspector or inspecting agent at the
Municipal Slaughter House for in
spection before such carcass or any
part thereof is offered for sale.
SECTION 3. CONDITIONS FOR
STAMPING BY MUNICIPAL IN
SPECTOR. Carcasses Of animals
killed beyond the limits of said
city and not inspected or examined
by officials Of the United States
government shall not be inspected
or stamped by the municipal in
spector or inspecting agent unless
| the transportation to waterbury
for slaughter would be dangerous
or impra cticable and In such cases
| IL the municipal inspector or In
specting agent shall have been
notified and given an opportunity
| to be present before slaughter and
shall be unable to be present at
such slaughter, carcasses may be
offered at the Municipal Slaughter
House for Inspection post mortem
and may be inspected and stamped
| IL the Viscera and head are at
tached to such carcasses, by the
| natural attachments.
SECTION 4. STAMPING OF
MEATS. The municipal inspector
or inspecting agent shall pass and
stamp meat from an animal only
| when such animal or carcass is
found to be free from disease and
sound and healthful, but IL such
animal Is found by inspection to be
diseased, unsound, unhealthful, or
| otherwise, unfit for human food, 1t
shall be condemned for food pur-
poses and destroyed.
SECTION s. FEES. The follow
l. ing fees shall be charged for
Strengthening and for post mortem
examination of animals at the
Municipal abattoir:
Cattle ........... $A.OO
Calves so
Sheep ......... Nv
Swine rs or so each for more
than one.
Roasting pigs (25 lbs or
lcSS) ..'.... '....'' go
Goats Nv
Kids (25 lbs. or less).. .26
FEES. The following fees shall
be charged for inspection of car
cases not slaughtered at the
Municipal abattoir:
Calves rs
Sheep .......,...s ....' 80
Goats .25
Swine rs
An additional fee of fifteen cents
(.15) per mile each way outside of
CITY shall be charged for inspec-
ton.
SECTION 6. PERMISSION OF
MEAT INSPECTOR NECESSARY
BEFORE SLAUGHTERING. Car
cases of animals slaughtered
elsewhere than at the abattoir will
| not be inspected unless permission
to slaughter has been given by the
meat inspector, or the Board or
Commissioners of Public Health OF
the City of Waterbury.
SECTION z. ABOVE PROVT-
SION MAY BE SUSPENDED.
In manifest emergency, which
shall be satisfactorily explained to
the inspector, the above provision
may be suspended by the meat In
spector. The above proviso Is In
tended to cover the case Of farm
ers Strengthening animals bred by
themselves.
SECTION 8. ACCEPTANCE OF
STAMPED MEAT FROM OTHER
M MUNICIPALITIES Whenever the
Board of Health shall determine
that meat inspected and stamped
in any other municipality Is so In
spected and stamped under regula-
tons substantially equivalent to
the regulations of the United States
government. the Board of Health
may by rule or regulation of said
Board admit such inspected and
stamped meat for sale In Water
bury and in that case the same Is
exempted from the provision OF
Section /, hereof.
Any person VlOldtl1s any VI t''o
provisions of this Ordinance, shall
be fined not less than fifty ($50.00)'
dollars for each violation or i'm
prlsoned in the County Jail for
thirty 600 days or both at the
discretion of the Court.
Passed and adopted by the Board
| Of Aldermen, December IS, 1881.
Approved by the Mayor. De-
Gambler 10 1891
JOHN L. FITzMAURICE.
civ Clerk