Article I. In General.
Sec. 1. Protection from flies, dust and dirt; exposing on
street or sidewalk.
Food in the process of manufacture, preparation, and packing,
and when stored, on sale, or offered for sale shall be securely protected
from flies, dust and dirt; and food ready for consumption
without further preparation, maintained or offered for sale or
exchange, shall be covered by some permanent means, such as
glass, wood, metal or other suitable materials, in such manner or
means as to adequately protect same from dirt, dust and other
contamination. The use of newspapers, old sacks, unclean paper
or any paper that has been formerly used as an outside or
inside wrapping of articles of food is hereby prohibited. No
food, meat or other food article shall be exposed on the sidewalks
or streets, except as may be necessary in transporting from one
place to another. (Code 1932, § 398.)
Sec. 2. Spoiled, diseased, adulterated or misbranded
foodstuffs.
Whenever any health, sanitary, police or other officer of the
health department of the city shall find in any food establishment
or other place any rotten, diseased, unwholesome, adulterated or
misbranded foodstuffs, substances or articles intended for human
food or drink, it shall be the duty of such officer or agent to notify
the owner, manager or person in charge of such articles to remove
such foodstuffs or articles to some proper place and destroy
the same in the presence of said officer or agent, or such officer
or agent may seize such foodstuffs or articles and destroy them;
provided, that said officer or agent may retain any amount desired
for examination or use as evidence in any prosecution under this
section. All containers in which spoiled food has been placed shall
be thoroughly cleansed before a second use. (Id. § 409.)
Sec. 3. Vegetables grown on soil impregnated with human
excrement.
It shall be unlawful for any person, after notification by the
health officer, to offer for sale or sell vegetables that have grown
on soil that has been impregnated or fertilized with human excrement
within a period of twelve months from time of such fertilization.
(Id.)
Sec. 4. Handling and sale of meats, fowl, etc.; permit
to sell meat not inspected at abattoir.
All beef, pork, mutton, goat, poultry, fish, oysters and shellfish,
and other meats offered for sale, shall be subject to inspection
by a proper representative of the health officer, who shall have
power to condemn any such meats or fowl unfit for human consumption.
It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the sale
of meats and other foodstuffs to permit meat articles of food
which are of such nature that they may be defiled or polluted by
handling to be exposed for sale in such manner that they may be
handled by prospective purchasers or others by whom such handling
is not necessary. Meats, meat products or other foodstuffs
shall not be brought into, transported or sold in the city unless
properly covered and adequately protected against pollution, flies,
dust, dirt, etc. Meats, meat products, fish and shellfish on sale,
or in storage, shall be kept in iced refrigerators or iced containers.
Any person selling, or offering for sale any beef, pork, mutton or
goat which has not been killed and inspected at an abattoir approved
by the health officer, shall first obtain a permit from the
city health officer. Such meat and all animals to be slaughtered,
and the premises where slaughtered, shall at all times be subject
to inspection by a representative of the health officer. It shall be
unlawful for any person knowingly to sell or offer for sale any
part of the carcass of a diseased animal unless approved by an
accredited veterinarian. The penalty for the violation of this section
shall be the revocation of the permit and a fine of not less than
one hundred dollars or thirty days in jail, or both. (Code 1932,
§ 410.)
Sec. 5. Wrapping bakery products.
All breads, rolls, biscuits, cakes and pies and all other baked
goods, sold, exchanged or delivered in the city shall be closely
wrapped in a clean paper before leaving the building; provided,
however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to
hotels, restaurants, boarding houses or other places where bread is
made for their own use. (Id., § 411.)
