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Sec. 415. Food exposed for sale—protection of.

(a) No person shall expose for sale, on any public highway
or in any open market, stand or store in the City, candy, cake
or bread, dates or figs, or any other food of a kind not ordinarily


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cooked, peeled or washed before being eaten, unless such candy,
cake, dates, figs, or other articles of food is effectually wrapped,
or covered and enclosed, so as to protect it from dust and insects.

(b) No such article shall be wrapped or covered with newspaper
or with any other paper previously used for any other
purpose.

(c) No person shall expose any article of food for sale, on
any public highway in the City, within twenty-four inches from
the surface of the ground, unless such article of food is covered
or enclosed to prevent access of dogs or is constantly in the immediate
presence of the owner of such article of food or of the
proper representative of such owner having custody thereof.