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ORDiNANC NO
AN ORUENANCE REGULATING THE SLAUGHTERING OF ANIMALS
AND PROVIDING INSPECTION oF ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED FOR
MEAT OR HEAT FOOD PRODUCTs; PROVIDING FOR THE INSPECTION
OF EsTAELIsHMENTs WHERE MEATs AND MEAT PRODUCTS ARE SOLD
FOR RUYAN CONSUMPTION; PROVIDING FOR THE FORFEITURE OF
MEATs THAT ARE uNFIT FOR HUMAN Poop AND PRESCRIBING THE
DUTIES OF QFFIOIAL8 AND PERSONS TO ENFORCE THE PROVISIONS
OP THIS ORDINANCE AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLA-
TIONS OP THE PROVISIONS OF THI$ ORDINANCE.
INSPECTION OF W AT AND MEAT FOOD PRODUCTS:
The Board of Trustees of the City of Natioual Qtty, California,
do ordain as follows*
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for •any person or persons,
firm or corporation, to conduct maintain or operate an establishment
for the slaughtering of animals or for the preparation of meat
or meat food products within the city limits of the City of
National City, without first having obtained a permit therefor
from the• Board of Health of the City of National City.
Section 2. Every applicant for such permit shall file with
the Health Department of the City of National City a written
application *bleb shall state the name and Address of the applican
a description of the property, its location, street and number,
wherein and whereon it is proposed to conduct such establishment
and. such other information as the Board of Health of the City
of National City by regulation may require.
Section 3, Every person, firm or corporation applying for
a permit under the provisions of this ordinance *hall at the time
of making ePplication for such permit pay an annual inspection
fee of 01040 ( ten dollars) to the clerk or employee of the Health
Department designated to receive such fees. All moneys received
as inspection fees under the provisions of this ordinance shall
be paid into the City Treasury and placed in the Health Fund.
A permit for which application is made under the provisions of
this ordinance may be granted at any time during the year, but
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all permits granted hereunder, shall expire an the 31st day of
Deeember of the year in which the same are granted.
Motion 4. Upon receipt of suoh application it shell be the
duty of the Health Officer or an authorised representative of the
Health Department, to investigate the existing conditions in the
place mentioned in the application, and if it shall avear that the
existing conditions comply with the provisions of this ordinance
as to sanitation of buildings, drainage, sewage, cleanliness,
equipment, utensils, employees, water eupply, disposal of refuse,
etc, and conforms with the rules and regulations of the Board of
Health of said City, the rules and regulations of the State Board
of Health, the rules and regulations of the Division •of Animal
Industry State of California, and the laws of the State of Calif-
ornia as prescribed in Agriculture Statutes of the State of Calif-
ornia regulating slaughter houses era meat inspection (chapter 732,
Statutes 1921), the provisions of said laws, rules and regulations,
and any amendments thereto are by this reference adopted as a part
of this ordinance, a permit therefor shall be granted only upon
the express condition however, that it shall be revocable upon
a conviction of the person or persons holding •a permit for the
violation of any of the provisions of this ordinenee•
Section 6. The Board of Health is hereby empowered to
designate certain places where slaughtering establishments may be
maintained, and if conditions so warrant cause to be established
centralized slaughtering plants where all slaughtering shall be done.
Section 6. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons,
firm or corporation, or the agent or employee o•f any person or
persons, firm or corporation, to sell or exchange for other thing
of value within the City of National City any meat or meat food
products for human consumption unless such meat or meat food
products shall have first been inspected by an agent of the Board
of Health of the City of National City, and shall bear the stamps
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G, CJ
"San Diego
and Passed
v
Tnspe+eted and Passed", etc "California Inspected
he stamp of a sunio pal inspection department
approved by the Board. of Health of the City of National City.
Each licensed establishment shall be designated by a serial number
which shall be stamped on all earaasses and parts of carcasses from
such eatablisherntns which are passed by the health Department for
human food. This number shall be a part of and shall be included
in the stamp, "San Diego County Inspected and Pasted'as provided
for tn. this ordinances.
Section 7. The Board of Health shalt provide for ante-morttem
and post-mortem veterinary inspection of all animals slaughterer
in establishments for which permits have been issued, and for the
inspection of carcasses or parts of carcasses and of food products
during the time of preparation, transportation and storage as
provided for in Section 5 of this ordinance. All slaughtering
and preparation of meat or meet food products shall be conducted
on week days between the hours of 7:00 A. M. and 6e00 «,
in the presesee of an authorized agent or representative of s aid
Health Department. The Health Department may at its discretion
designate certain days for the slaughtering of animals at the
various abbateirs, and in cases of emergency a special permit
to slaughter may be issued in writing for the slaughter of animals
at suchhours as may be necessary to meet such emergency;
provided that such slaughtering shall be conducted in a manner
as shall comply with the provisions of this ordinance regulating
the inspection for the slaughtering of animals.
Section ii. Whenever it shall appear to the satisfa4tion
of the Meat Inspector that any meat or meat food products may
be unfit for human food or any carcasses or parts of carcasses
may be sold or offered for sale contrary to the provisions of
this ordinance„ such meat or meat food products or carcasses or parts
thereof shall be subject to confiscation by the Health Department
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or Its agent, or subjeeted to such treatment as shall satisfy
said agent that such meat or meat food produets or careasses
or parts thereof, cannot be sold for human food. The Health
Department may prepare for use on meats or meat food products
not intended for use as human food a special stamp setting forth
the nature of such product*
MEAT MANXETSt
Section 9. It shell bo unlawful for any per firm or
corporation to establish, maintain, or conduct any meat market or
place where meat -or meat food products are sold within the City
of National City, without first having obtained a permit from the
Board of Health to do so.
Section 10* EVery applicant for such permit shall file with'
the Health Department of the City of National City a written appll
cation which shall state the name and addreas of the applicant, a
description of the property, its location, street and number,
wherein and whereon it is proposed to conduct such establishment
or business, and such other information as the •Health Department
of the City of National City by regulation may require. Every
person, firm or corporation applying for a permit under the
proviaions of this ordinance shall at the time of making
application for such permit pay an annual inspection fee of $8.00--
(five dollars) to the clerk or employee of the Health Department
of said City designated to receive slush fees* All moneys received
as inspection fees under the provisions of this ordinance shall
be paid into the City Treasury and placed in the Beelth Fund.
A permit for which application is made under the provisions of
•this ordinance may be granted at any
all permits granted hereunder, shall
of December of the year in which the
time during the year, but
expire on the Slat day
same are granted»
Section 11. The Board of Health is herby authorized to
provide inspection for all places where meat or meat food products
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are prepared or sold for food.
The owner, proprietor or manager of every meat market
or place where meat or meat food produets are prepared or sold
shall keep posted in a conspicuous place in his place of business
a copy of the rules and regulations of the Board of Health
of the City of National City regulating t marketsmand the
permit granted to him under the provisions of this ordinance.
Section 12. A person, firm or corporation violating any
of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor AnA pon conviction thereof shall be punished
by a fine of not les than Ten Dollars (*1000) nor more than
Three Hundred Dolls (000.00) or by imprisonment in the County
Jail of the County o San Diego for a period of not more than
three month (3) or both such fine and imprisonment. Svery
person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this
ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day
during such or any portion of which, such violation continues, and
shall be punished therefor as herein provided.
Section 13. The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause this
Ordinance to be published once in The National City News, a news-
paper printed and published in said City, and of general circulation
therein.
Section 14. This Ordinance shall take effectotfect and be in force -
on the thirty-first day after its final passage.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Trustees• of the
City of National City, California, this 17thday of January
1928, by the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Trustees:
Bird, Cordingly, Fritz, Murray
NAYS: Trusteel: Addis
ABSENT: Trustees: None
Alex Murray
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(SEAL)
I hereby approve the
17thdfy of January r Imo'
a
Alex Murray
clexxt of the ward o
of the City of Na
Califcenie.
I hereby. certify that the above and foregoing is
a full, true and correct copy of 'Ordinance No. 578 of the
Ordinances of .. the City of National City, California, as
adopted by the Board of Trustees of said City, and approved
by the President of said Board of Trustees on the 17th day of
January, 1928; and the title of said Ordinance is as follows:
AY ORDINANCE REGULATING THE SLAUGHTERING OF ANIMALS AND PROVIDING
INSPECTION OF ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED FOR NEAT OR MEAT FOOD PRODUCTS;
PROVIDING FOR THE INSPECTION OF ESTADLISHNENTS WHERE MEATS AND
MEAT PRODUCTS ARE son FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION; PROVIDING FOR THE
FORFEITURE OF MEATS THAT ARE UNFIT FOR HUNAN FOOD AND PRESCRIBING
THE DUTIES OF OFFICIALS AND PERSONS TO ENFORCE THE PROVISIONS OF
THIS - ORDINANCE AND EROVIDII'IG A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATIONS OF THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE; and said Ordinance was published
once in a regular issue of TheNational City News, as required by
law.
City Clerk of the City
National City, California.