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ORDINANCE SETTING OUT THE REGULATIONS FOR DAIRIES AND MILK INSPECTIONS
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The office of City Milk Inspector is hereby established and the sum of $25.00 is hereby appropriated for the purpose of buying such equipments for the Milk Inspector’s office as are necessary for the purpose of making such milk tests as are hereinafter enumerated. Said Milk Inspector shall be elected by the City Council and shall hold office during the term of the Council that elected him, or until his successor is elected. It shall be the duty of the City Milk Inspector to investigate the sanitary conditions of the dairies furnishing milk to the City of Jonesboro at least once every sixty days or oftener if the Council by resolution so directs, and for each investigation he shall receive $3.50. Provided, such office of City Milk Inspector may be declared vacant at any regular meeting of the City Council.
No milk, cream or other dairy products, shall be received, held, kept or offered for sale, or delivered within the City of Jonesboro, without first obtaining a permit in writing from the City Milk Inspector.
No person shall run a dairy wagon or any other wagon or conveyance, for the purpose of delivering milk, cream or buttermilk, or shall in any other way or through his employees or agents, deliver any milk, cream or buttermilk to any person or place in the City of Jonesboro without first obtaining a permit in writing from the City Milk Inspector, for which permit said applicant shall pay a fee of $3.00 per year, or $1.50 for six months or less, said fees to be paid in cash, all permits to expire on December 31st.
No person shall at any place sell, deliver or offer for sale, or keep for use, or bring or send in to said City, milk or other dairy products which are unwholesome or adulterated with any substance, or from diseased animals, or from animals which are kept in uncleanly or unsanitary unwholesome food, or watered with polluted water, or from dairy farms or other places where the attendants are affected with contagious or infectious diseases, or from animals within fifteen days before or five days after parturition.
Milk shall be termed and adulterated: (1st) When it contains more than 88 percent of water or other fluid; (2nd) When it contains less than 12 percent of milk solids provided that said solids shall not contain less than 3 percent of butter fat; (3rd) When water, or antiseptics, or other substances have been added; (4th) When any part of the cream has been removed, provided, that milk without the cream may be labeled and sold as “skimmed milk”; (5th) When placed in containers which are dirty, or have been washed with polluted water.
It shall be the duty of the Sanitary Officers of the City, as well as any Policeman, to obtain samples of milk, buttermilk or cream, from milk dealers at least once every sixty days, or when ordered to do so by the City Milk Inspector or by the City Council. Said samples shall be in quantities not more than one quart, and together with the name and address of the dealer or driver, and number of the wagon, are to be sent to the office of the Milk Inspector for tests and chemical analysis; and said Inspector shall call to his assistance a chemist for the purpose of aiding him in making said tests, and the City shall pay a reasonable fee. And from tests or analysis, if it be ascertained that said milk, or other dairy product is in violation of any of the provisions, of this Ordinance, the said Milk Inspector shall immediately report the same to the Chief of Police, who shall cause the arrest of the offending party or parties forthwith.
All wagons shall have painted thereon in a plain and legible manner the name of the dairy or the owner thereof and the number of the wagon, and anyone selling or offering for sale any milk, cream, or buttermilk, without having a permit as provided herein, or selling or offering for sale milk, cream or other dairy products which in any way violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than Ten Dollars nor more than Twenty-five Dollars for each offense, and each sale shall constitute a separate offense.
Passed and approved this 18th day of September, 1905