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Sec. 17-2. Sale of adulterated, misbranded or ungraded milk
or milk products prohibited.

No person shall, within the city or its police jurisdiction,
produce, sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in possession
with intent to sell, any milk or milk product which is adulterated,
misbranded or ungraded. It shall be unlawful for any
person, elsewhere than in a private home, to have in possession
any adulterated, misbranded or ungraded milk or milk
product; provided, that in an emergency the sale of ungraded
pasteurized milk products may be authorized by the health
officer, upon the approval of the state authority, in which
case they shall be labeled "ungraded."

Any adulterated, misbranded or improperly labeled milk


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or milk products may be impounded by the health officer and
disposed of in accordance with state law. (Code 1959, § 17-2.)