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4987 Slaughtering of AnimalsORDINANCE N0, 4987 Published in the Salina Journal AN ORDINANCE providing for the licensing and regulation of the slaughtering of animals in the City of Salina and for the appointment of a Meat Inspector and pro- viding penalties for the violation of this ordinance. BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas: this Section 1. For the purpose of/ordinance the following words, phrases, names and terms shall be construed repsec:tively to mean: (a) PERSON. Any person* firm or corporation, (b) INSPECTOR. Either the chief meat inspector or a deputy inspector (c) ESTABLISI-LENT. Any place in the City of Salina where animals are slaughtered for market together with such lines of business carried on in connection therewith, such as meat canning, curing, smoking, salting, packing, rendering and other similar processes wherein meat, meat foods and meat food products are prepared for resale. (d) INSPECTED AND PASSED. That the carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat products or meat food products so marked have been inspected and passed under this ordinance. (e) PASSED FOR STERILIZATION. That the carcassAs, parts of carcasses, meat or meat products so marked have been inspected and passed on condition that they be rendered into lard or tallow, or otherwise sterilized by methods approved by the City Health Officer. (f) COND&1NED. That the carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, meat products or meat food products so designated are unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human food. (g) CARCASS. All parts including the viscera of a slaughtered animal that are capable of being used for human food. (h) MEAT PRUDUCTS. Any edible part of a carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses or mules, which is not manufactured, cured, smoked, processed or other- wise treated. (i) 1;EAT FOOD PRODUCTS. Any article of food, or any article which may enter into the composition of food for human consumption, which is derived or prepared in whole or in part from any portion of a carcass, if such portion is all or a considerable and definite portion of the article. (j) PRODUCT. Shall be construed to mean either meat products or meat food pro- ducts or both of them. (k) ANIMALS. Cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses or mules. Section 2. Establishments, within the meaning of this ordinance, shall conform to the following requirements: (a) The establishment shall be maintained in a sanitary condition. (b) There shall be abundant light and sufficient ventilation for all rooms and compartments to insure sanitary conditions. (c) There shall be an efficient drainage and plumbing system for the establish- ment and premises, and all drains and gutters shall be properly installed, with approved traps and vents. r-, 1 (d) The water supply shall be ample, clean and potable, with adequate facili- ties for its distribution in the plant. I (e) The floors, walls, ceiling, partitions, posts, doors, and other parts of all i structures shall be of such materials, construction and finish as will make them i susceptible of being readily and thoroughly cleansed. The floors shall be kept water tight. The rooms and compartments used for edible products shall be separate and I distinct from those used for inedible products. j (f) The rooms and compartments in which any meat or meat products is prepared or handled, shall be free from odors from dressing and toilet rooms, catch basins, hide cellars, casing rooms, inedible tank and fertilizer rooms and stables. (g) Adequate sanitary facilities and accommodations for employees shall be furnished by every establishment. jh) In all other cases not covered by these requirements, the preparation or j handling of meat, meat products or meat food products shall conform to regulations I prescribed by the City Health Officer, which regulations shall conform as far as 1 practicable to the regulations governing meat inspections of the United States Department of Agriculture. Such regulations promulgated by the City Health Officer shall be approved by the Board of Commissioners. Section 3. It shall be the duty of the City Yanager to appoint a duly qualified person as a meat inspector and in addition thereto to deputy appoint such inspectors I as may be necessary to effectively carry out the provisions of this ordinance. No i person shall be appointed to any such office who has not had at least one years actual experience as a meat inspector under the United States Department of Agricul- ture or under some municipality having regulations substantially sind lar to those s' provided for in this ordinance. r It shall be the duty of such inspectors to; (a) At all establishments make an ante mortem inspection of all animals to be slaughtered for food and a post mortem inspection of all carcasses or parts of car- casses to be sold or offered for sale within the corporate limits of the City of Salina, and to make such other inspections of such establishments as may be necessary to effectively carry out the provisions of this ordinance. All such carcasses and meat products so inspected which are fit for human food e shall be plainly marked or tagged either under the supervision of such inspector or by other approved inspection authorities to show that they have been inspected and passed. All such carcasses and meat products as are unfit for human food shall be plain- ly marked or tagged by such inspector to show that they have been condemned; provided i that if any carcass or part thereof shall have been found to be fit for human food i only after being sterilized, such part shall be plainly marked or tagged to indicate it has been passed for sterilization and provided further that where a carcass or part thereof is fit for human food, with the exception of a small and inconsiderable portion thereof, which is unfit for human food, such portion shall be plainly marked or tagued to indicate it is unfit for human food and the last mentioned mark or tag shall not be removed therefrom until such portion so indicated is separated from the balance of the carcass or part thereof. Carcasses, meat, meat products and meat food products which have been inspected and passed and plainly marked or tagged by the Inspector of the Bureau of Animal In- dustry of the United States Department of Agriculture or have been inspected and passed by inspectors of other municipalities, as is provided for in this ordinance, shall ex- cept as otherwise provided for in this ordinance, be exempt from inspection by the in- spectors of the City of Salina. Section 4. An ante mortem examination shall be made of all cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses or mules about to be slaughtered in an establishment before their slkughter shall be allowed, and when it is apparent, upon such inspection, that for any sufficient reason the meat of such animal is unfit for human food, such animal shall be plainly tagged "condemned", and whn it is killed its carcass shall at once be marked or tagged "condemned"; and when, on ante mortem inspection of an animal the inspector has good reason to believe, but is not entirely satisfied, that the meat of such animal is un- fit for human food, _t shall be tagged as a suspect and if such animal shall be slaughtered at the establishment where the ante mortem inspection was made, the whole of the carcass shall be finally inspected before the tag indicating the animal is suspected, is removed. Provided expressly, that all "condemned" animals shall be immediately dis- posed of at the place of condemnation in a manner approved by the City Health Officer of the City of Salina. Section 5. It shall be unlawful to slaughter horses or mules or handle the meat or meat products thereof in establishments engaged in the slaughter of cattle, sheep, swine or goats or in the manufacture of meat food products therefrom* Section 6. All carcasses, or parts thereof, meat, meat products and meat food products condemned by the inspector as unfit for human food shall be destroyed for food purposes by tanking or other adequate means approved by the City Health Officer. Section 7. The carcasses or parts thereof, passed for sterilization, which are not rendered into lard or tallow may be utilized for food purposes, provided they are first sterilized by methods and marked and tagged by a method approved by the City Health Officer. Section 8. Each establishment shall inform the inspector in charge, when work in each department has been concluded for the day, and of the day and hour when work will be resumed therein. Whenever any meat or meat product requires inspection in any es- tablishment during unusual hours, the establishment shall, a reasonable time in advance, notify the inspector in charge of the day and hour when such work will be commenced. Section 9. All slaughtering in establisments shall be done between the hours of six o'clock A. IV. and six o'clock P. M. and at such other hours as may be approved and agreed upon by the inspector. Section 10. Facilities and conditions essential to the efficient conduct of in- spection shall be provided and maintained by each establishment. Section 11. Every handler of meat in any such establishment and every person whose work brings him in contact with the slaughter, marketing, storage, transportation I i or sale of meat, meat products or meat food products, in bulk or in unwrapped packages, in any such establishment, shall have, within twelve months, passed a medical examina- tion made by the City health Officer, or by a licensed physician approved by the City Health Officer and to submit for examination such specimens of bodily discharge as the City Health Officer may require. i Section 12. No establishment, or any part thereof, shall be used or occupied as I i a residence or lodging place for any person and no slaughter or processing of live- stock shall be permitted in a house, building or place used as a residence or lodging place for human beings Section 13. Equipment and utensils used for preparing, processing, or otherwise handling any meat, meat products or meat food products in any such establishment shall be of such materials and construction as will make them susceptible of being readily and thoroughly cleaned. Trucks and receptacles used for inedible products shall bear some conspicuous and distinctive mark, and shall not be used for handling the edible i products. Edible products shall be transported only in closed vehicles or otherwise i be protected from dust, dirt, or contamination, and in such manner as shall be pre- scribed and approved by the City Health Officer. Section 14. All processes used in curing, pickling, rendering, canning, or other- wise preparing any meat or products thereof in an establishment shall be subject to i inspection. i Section 15. No meat or meat product shall contain any substance which impairs its wholesomeness, or contains any dye, preservative or any chemical injurious to health. Only harmless coloring matters may be used and these only with the approval of and in the manner approved by the City Health Officer. Section 16. The use of sulphide, any preparation containing sulphur diozide, or any secret preparation, the ingredients of which, in the manufacture or preparation of any meat products and the manufacture, selling or offering for sale of any meat products containing sulphide, sulphur dioxide, or any secret preparation is hereby prohibited. Section 17. Any meat products to which there have been added cereals or any other meat substitutes, shall be plainly so labeled in all establishments where meat pro- ducts are prepared or processed for sale. Section 18. Inasmuch as it carLiot certainly be determined by any present known method of inspection whether the muscle tissue of pork contains trichinae, and inas- much as live trichinae are dangerous to health, no article of a kind prepared customarily to be eaten without cooking shall contain any muscle tissue of pork, unless the pork i has been subjected to a temperature sufficient to destroy all live trichinae, or other treatment approved by the City Health Officer. Section 19. Samples of meat products, water, dyes, chemicals, preservatives, spices, , or other articles in any establishment shall be taken without cost to the City Health Department for examination as often as may be deemed necessary by the Chief Inspector. Section 20. No person shall in any such establishment within the City of Salina, manufacture, purchase, sell, expose for sale, for human consumption or have in his possession with an intent to sell for human consumption, any meat, meat products or meat food products which is misbranded within the meaning of this ordinance. Section 21. The term "misbranded" as used in this ordinance shall apply to all meat, meat products, or meat food products, the label of which shall bear any statements, de- sign or device regarding such article or the ingredients or substitutes contained there- in which shall be false or misleading in any particular, or which is falsely branded as to the state, territory or country in which it was manufactured or produced. Section 22. Before any person shallcperate an establishment in the City of Salina from which meat, meat products, or meat food or meat food products are to be sold or offered for sale in the City of Salina, he shall first apply for and obtain from the City Health Officer a permit to engage in such business. All such permits shall expire on the 31st day of December of each year, unless sooner revoked. Provided, however, that no such permit nor any inspections herein called for pursuant to such permit, shall be required of establishments that are regularly inspected by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture, Section 23. Every application for a permit provided for by this ordinance shall be in form approved by the City Health Officer and shall state the name and address of the applicant; the precise nature of the business to be carried on, the extent of his in- terest in the business for which the permit is desired, and, if the applicant is not the owner of such business, then the application shall state the name and address of the owner. Said application shall state the address of the business for which the permit is desired together with such other information as shall be required by the City Health Officer. Section 24. The City Health Officer shall issue to the applicant a permit to engage in the business of operating an establishment for preparing meat products, when, upon inspection of the premises where it is proposed to conduct the business, the inspector has found the applicant has complied with the provisions of the ordinance and all laws, ordinances and regulations of the City Health Officer, applicable to such business. The City of Salina shall furnish such inspection as the City H ealth Officer shall deem ade- quate and sufficient to such establishments. For the issuance of such permit the applicant shall pay a fee of Ten Dollars ($10.00) for an establishment. Section 25. T#e Board of Commissioners, upon recommendation of the City Health Officer, shall have power, upon reasonable notice and a hearing thereon, to suspend any permit issued pursuant to this ordinance. If the establishment operating under such per- mit, does not comply with its provisions and with all ordinances and all lawful regula- tions the City Health Officer applicable to such establishments, or if the holder of the permit shall have been repeately convicted of violating the ordinances of the City of s Salina, relating to the business in which he is engaged, or if any false or misleading I i statements upon a material matter shall be made by the applicant in connection with the issuance of such permit. I I Section 26. No such establishment in the City of Salina shall sell, offer for sale, 1 or keep for sale, or have on hand for human consumption, the meat or other product of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses or mules other than that bearing the official f inspection mark of the Inspector of the City of Salina, or the Inspector of the Bureau '1 of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, or the inspector of such other cities inspecting meat and approved under regulations substantially } similar to those provided for in this ordinance. Section 27. Establishments now in operation shall be subject to the provisions f of this ordinance. Section 28. The City Health Officer is hereby authorized and empowered, with the approval of the Board of Com:_issioners of the City of Salina t6 make such regulations j i as may be reasonably necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this ordinance. Section 29. That for the purpose of this ordinance wherever the term City Health i Officer is used, the same shall be deemed to refer to the City Yilk Inspector and the regularly appointed and actint. Milk Inspector of the City of Salina shall be deemed to be the City Health Officer for the this purposes of ordinance. I Section 30. The salary of the Meat Inspector provided for by this ordinance shall f be $100.00 per month which sum shall be paid by the establishment or establishments requiring his services under the provisions of this ordinance and to which establish- ments or establis#ments permits under this ordinance have been issued, and shall be pro rated to such establishments, if there be more than one, as directed by the City Health Officer; and the establishment or establishments paying such salary as so directed shall within five days after the last day of each month file with the City Clerk a receipt, executed by such Bleat Inspector, showing the payment to him by such establish- ment of the salary as paid by such establishment to the Meat Inspector of such pro- portionate amount thereof as it has been directed to pay by the City Health Officer, or the whole thereof if there be only one such establishment. Section 31. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than Five Dollars (05.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars (,$200.00), and each days' violation shall constitute a separate offense. Section 32. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is held to be unreasonable or uncontitutional, the validity of the remaining portion i thereof shall not be affected. i Section 33. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after 10 days after its passage, approval and publication in the official city paper. ,I Introduced, December 30, 1940 Passed, January 6, 1941 Ed Morgenstern Mayor Attest: Chas. E. Banker City Clerk STATE OF KANSAS ) SS COUNTY OF SALINE I, Chas. E. Banker, City Clerk of the City of Salina, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 4987 passed and approved by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina January 6, 1941; and a record of the vote on its final adoption is found on page Journal No. 15. City Clerk Published in the Salina Journal ORDII,41ANCE NO. 4987 1941) AN URDL,,'AILCE providing for the licensing and regulation of the slaughtering of animals in the City of Salina and for the a-pointment of a &:eat in- spector and providing penalties for the violation of this ordinance. BE I^1 URDAI1ID by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Ef sas: Section 1. For the purpose of this ordinance the following words, phrases, namesanJ terms shall be construed respectively to mean: (a) PERSON. Any person, firm or corporation. (b) INSPECTOR. .dither the chief meet inspector A a deputy inspector. (c) ESTABLISI:IENT. 4ny place in the City of Salina where animals are slaughtered for market together with such kindred lines of business carried on in connection therewith, such as meat canning, curing, smor:ing, salting, packing, rendering and other similar processes wherein meat, meat foods and meat food products are prepared for resale. (d) INSPECTED A10 PASSED. That the carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat products or meat food products so marked have been inspected and xassed under this ordinance. (e) PASSIED FOR STERILIZATION. That the carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat products so marked have been inspected and passed on condition that they be rendered into lard or tallow, or otherwise sterilized by methods approved by the City Health Officer. (f) CONDEMNED. That the carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, meat products or meat food products so designated are unsound, unhealthful, un- wholesome or otherwise unfit for human food. (g) CARCASS. All parts including; the viscera of a slaughtered animal that are capable of being used for human food. (h) IeMhT PRODUCTS. Any edible part of a carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses or mules, which is not manufactured, cured,smoked, pro- cessed or otherwise treated. (i) !��-T FOOD PrIODUCTS. Any article of food, or any article which 1r:ay enter into the composition of food for human consumption, ti*.hich is derived or prepared in whole or in part from any portion of a carcass, if .,^Lich portion is all or a considerable and definite portion of the article. W PRODUCT. Shall be construed to mean either meat products or meat food products or both of them. (k) ANDiALS. Cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses or mules. Section 2. Establishments, within the meaning of this ordinance shall conform to the following requirements: (a) The establishment shall be maintained in a sanitary condition. (b) There shall be abundant light and sufficient ventilation for all uooms and compartments to insure sanitary conditions. (c) There shall be an erficient drainage and plumbing system for the establishment and premises, and all drains and gutters spall be properly installed, with approved traps and vents. (d) The ti;ater supply shall be ample, clean and notable, with adequate facilities for its distribution in the plant. (e) The floors, walls, ceiling, partitions, posts, doors, and other parts of all structures shall be of such materials, construction and finish as will make them susceptible of being readily and thoroughly cleansed. The floors shall be kept water tight. The rooms and compartments used for edible products shall be separate and distinct from those used for inedible products. (f) The rooms and compartments in which any meat or meat product is pre- pared or handled, shall be free from odors from dressing and toilet rooms, catch basins, hide cellars, casing rooms, inedible tank and fertilizer rooms and stables. (g) Adequate sanitary facilities and accorrriodations for employes shall be furnished by every establishment. (h) In all other cases not covered by these requirenents, the preparation or handling of meat, meat products or meat food products shall conform to regula- tions prescribed by the City Health Officer, which regl_!letions shall conform as far as practicable to the regulations overning meat inspections cf the United States Department of Agriculture. Such regulations promulgated by the City Health Officer shall be approved by the Board of Conuniss_oners. Section 3. It shall be the duty of the City Manager to appoint a duly qualified person as a meat inspector and in addition thereto to appoint such deputy inspectors as may be necessary to effectively carry out the provisions of this ordinance. No person shall be appointed to any such office who has not had at least one years actual experience as a neat inspector under the United States Department of Agriculture or under some municipality having rep-ul�-tions substantially similar to those provided for in this ordinance. It shall be the duty of such inspectors to: (a) At all establishments make an ante mortem inspection of all animals to be slaughtered for food and a post mortem inspection of all carcasses or parts of carcasses to be sold or offered for sale wit#in the corporate limits of the City of Salina, and to make such other inspections of such establishments as may be necessary to effectively carry out the provisions of this ordinance. All such carcasses and meat products so inspected which are fit for human food shall be plainly marked or tagged either under the supervision of such in- spector or by other approved inspection aut-.orities to show that they have been inspected and passed. All such carcasses and meat products as are unfit for human food shall be plainly marked or tagged by such inspector to show that they ha e been con- demned; provided that if any carcass or part thereof shall have been found to be fit for human food only after being sterilized, such part shall be plainly marked or tagged to indicate it has been passed for sterilization and provided further that where a carcass or part thereof is fit for human food, with the exception of a smell and inconsiderable portion thereof, which is unfit for human food, such :portion shall be plainly marked or Caged to indicate it is unfit for human food and the last mentioned mark or tag shall not be removed therefrom until such portion so indicated is separated from the balance of the carcass or part, thereof. Carcasses, mett, Treat products and meat food products which have been in- spected and passed and plainly marked or tagged by the Inspector of the Bureau of Animal I dustry of the United States Departrient of Agriculture or have been inspected and passed by inspectors of other municipalities, as is provided SSr in this ordinance, shall except as otherwise provided for in this ordinance, be exempt from inspection by the inspectors of the City of Salina. Section 4. An ante mortem examination shall be made of all c-.ttle, sileep, swine, goats, horses or mules about to be slaughtered in an establishment be- fore their slaughter shall be allowed, and when it is apparent, upon such in- specticn, that for any sufficient reason the meat of such animal is unfit for human food, such animal shallbe plainly tagged "condemned", and when it is killed its carcass shall at once be marked or tagged "condemned"; and when, on ante mortem inspection of an animal the i spector has good reason to believe, but is not entirely satisfied, that the meat of such animal is unfit for human food, it shall be tagged as a suspect, and if such animal shall be slaughtered at the establishment where the ante mortem inspection was made, the i,. -hole of the carcass shall be finally inspected before the tag indicating the animal is suspected, is removed. Provided expressly, that all "condemned" animals shall be immediately disposed of at the place of condemnation in a manner approved by the City Health Officer of the City of Salina Section 5. It shall be unlawful to slaughter horses or miules or handle the meat or meat products thereof in establishments engaged in the slaughter of cattle, sheep, swine or goats or in the nanufacture of meat food products the ref vam. Section 6. All carcasses, or parts thereof, meat, meat products and meat food products condemned by the inspector as unfit for human food shall be.des- troyed for food purposes by tanking or other adequate means approved by the City Health Officer. Section 7. The carcasses or parts thereof, passed for sterilization, 3,ahich are not rendered into lard or tallow may be utilized for food purposes, provided they are first sterilized by methods and :narked and taged by a method approved by the City Health Officer. Section 8. Each establishment shall inform the inspector in charge, when work in each department has been concluded fcr the day, and of tine day aria hour then work vdll be resumed therein. Vvhenever any meat or meat product requires inspection in any establishment during unusual hours, the establishment shall, a reasonable time in advance, notify the inspector in cnarge of the aay and hour when such work willbe conmienced. Section 9. All slaughtering in establishments shall be done between the hours of six o'clock A. M. and six o'clock P. 1;1. and at such other hours as may be approved and agreed upon by the inspector. Section 10. Facilities and conditions essential to the efficient conduct of inspection shall be provided and maintained by each establishment. Section 11. Every handler of meat xx ±xxtk ►xgjj F=±x2xk± ![ in any stAch establishment and every person whose work brings him in contact with the - slaughter, marketing, storage, transportation or sale of meat, meat products or meat food products, in bulk or in unwrapped packages, in any such establish- ment, shall have, within twelve months, passed a medical examination made by the City Health Officer, or by a licensed physician approved by the City Health Of'f'icer and to subrAt for examination such specimens of bodily discharge as the City Health Officer may require. Section 12. No establishment, or any part thereof, shall be used or occupied as a residence or lodging place for any person and no slaughter or processing of livestock shall be permitted in a house, building or place used as a residence or lodging place for human beings. Section 13. Equipment and utensils used for preparing, processing, or otherwise handling any meat, meat product or meat food product in any such establishment shall be of such materials and construction as will make them susceptible of being readily and thoroughly cleaned. Trucks and receptacles used for inedible products shall bear some conspicuous and distinctive mark, and shall not be used for handling the edible products. Edible products shall be transported only in closed vehicles or otherwise be protected from dust, dirt, or contamination, and in such manner as shall be prescribed and approved by the City Health Officer. Section 14. All processes used in curing, pickling, rendering, canning, or otherwise preparing any meat or product thereof in an establislcient shall be subject to inspection. Section 15. No meat or meat product shall contain any substance which impairs its wholesomeness, or contains any dye, preservative or any chemical injurious to health. Only harmless coloring matters may be used and these only with the approval of and in the manner approved by the City Health Officer. Section 16. The use of sulphide, any preparation containing sulphur dioxide, or any secret preparation, the ingredients of which, in the manufacture or preparation of any meat products and the manufacture, selling or offering for sale of any meat products containing sulphide, sulphur dioxide, or any secret preparation is hereby prohibited. Section 17. Any meat products to which there have been added cereals or any other meat substitutes, shall be plainly so labeled in all establishments where meat products are prepared or processed for sale Section 18. Inasmuch as it cannot certinal y be determined by any present known method of inspection whether the muscle tissue of pork contains trichinae, and inasmuch as live trichinae are dangerous to health, no article of a kind prepared customarily to be eaten without cooking shall contain any muscle tissue of ;cork, unless the park has been subjected to a temperature sufficient to destroy all live trichinae, or other treatment approved by the City Health Officer. Section 19. Samples of meat products, water, dyes, chemicals, preserva- tives, spices, or other articles in any establishment shall be taken :-Without cott to the City Health Department for examination as often as may be deemed necessary by the Chief Inspector. in any such establisIzient Section 20. IIo person shall,/within the City of Salina, manufacture, purchase, sell, expose for sale, ^99.,- *-R R e-12%xe for human conswnp- tion or have in his possession with an intent to sell for human con- sumption, any meat, meat products or meat food products wPLich is misbranded within the meaning of this ordinance. Section 21. The term "misbranded" as used in this ordinance shall apply to all meat, meat products, or meat food products, the la -el of which shall bear any statements, design or device regarding such article or the ingredients or substitutes contained therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular, or which is falsely branded as to the state, territory or country in i�vhich it was manufactured or produced. Section 'z2. Before any person shall operate an establishment in the city of Salina from which cleat, meat products, or meat food or neat food-;roducts are to be sold or offered for sale in the City of Salina, he shall first a,-ly for and obtain from the City Health Officer a permit to enga;Efe in such business. All such 9ermits shall expire on the 31st day of December of each year, unless sooner revoked. Provided, however, that no such permit nor any inspections herein called for pursuant to such permit, shall be required of establishments that are regularly inspected by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture. Section 23. Every application for a permit provided for by this ordinance shall be in form approved by the City Health Officer and shall state the name and address of the applicant; the precise nature of the business to be carried on, the extent of his interest in the business for wnich the permit is desired, and, if the applicant is not the owner of such business, then the application shall state the name and address of the owner. Said application shall state the address of the business for which the permit is desired together with such other information as shall be required by the City Health Officer, Section 24. The City Health Officer shall issue to the a_-plicant a permit to engage in the business of or�erating an establishment for :;repaving meat �)roducts, when, upon inspection of the premises where�t is proposed to con- duct the business, the inspector has found the applicant has complied with the provisions of the ordinance and all laws, ordinances and re«ulations of the City Health Officer, applicable to such business. The City of Salina shall fury.ish such inspection as the City Health Officer shall dee adequate and sufficient to such axtaktI establishments. For the issuance of such -permit the applicant sh�:i11 pay a fee of Ten Dollars (�10.00) for an establisrunent., . Section 25. The Board of Coriiiss_oners, upon recommendation of the City Health Officer, shall have power, upon reasonable notice and a hearing thereon, to suspend any permit issued pursuant to this ordinance. If the establishment operating under such permit, does not comply with its provisions and with all ordinances and all lawful regulationsof the City Health Officer applicable to such establishments or ro4ai Ist@vo, or if the holder of the permit shall have been repeatedly convicted of violating the ordinances of the City of Salina, relating to the business in which he is engRged, or if' any false or misleading statements upon a material matter shall be made by the applicant in connection ovi.th the issuance of such permit. Section 26. No such establisYunent in the City of Salina shall sell, offers for sale, or keep for sale, or have on hand for human consumption, the meat or other product of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses or mules other than that bearing the official inspection mark of the Inspector of the City of Salinaj W the Inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Departrient of Agriculture, or the inspector of such other cities inspecting meat and approved under regulatirns substantially similar to those*p o vi ed�s ordinance. Section 27. Establishments now in operation shall be subject to the ;provisions of this ordinance. Section 28. The City Health. Officer is hereby authorized and esapowered, with the approval of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina to make such regulations as may be reasonably necessary to carry into effect the pro- visions of this ordinance. Section 20. That for the purpose of this ordinance wherever the term City Health Officer is used, the same shall be deemed to refer to the City Liilk Inspector and the regularly appointed and acting Milk Inspector of the City of Salina shall be deemed to be the City Health Officer for the purposes of this ordinance. Section 30. The salary of the ileat Inspector provided for by this ordinance shall be $100.00 per month ivhich sum shall be ;paid by the establish- ment or establishments requiring his services under the provisions of this ordinance and to which VW establishment or establishments permits under this ordinance have been issued, and snall be pro rated opmmou such establishments, if there be more than one, as directed by the City Health Officer; and the establishment or establishments paying such salary as so directed shall within five days after the last day of each month file with the City Clerk a receipt executed by such Meat Inspector showing the payment to him by such establishments of the salary as paid by such establishment# to the ,Teat Inspector of such �ror amount thereof as it has been directed to pay by the City Health Offices.) or the whole thereof if there be only one such establishment. Section 31. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the pro- visions of this ordinance shall be deemed Suilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon con- viction thereof, shall be fined not less than Five Dollars (45.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars (200.00) and each day's violation shall constitute a separate l offense. Section 32. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is held to be unreasonable or unconstitutional, the validity cc the remaining portion thereof shall not be affected. Section 33. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and /O after 41� days after its passage, approval and publication in the official city paper, Introduced, December 30, 1940 Passed, Attest; City er January 6, 1941 Y,'ayor