HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 241-1923 - Providing That All Animals Intended For Slaughter, Shall Be Inspected - 11/15/1923ORDINANCE NO. 241
An Ordinance providing that all animals intended for immediate slaughter and
for sale within this City shall be inspected before slaughter, with certain
exceptions; establishing a slaughter house where at such animals shall be
inspected and killed and prepared for sale; providing for appointment of inspec or
of food and placing same under health department, providing fees for inspection]
of such animals; regulating the prices and services to be charged by such slaughter
house and providing that slaughter shall be done in accordance with the State
Sanitary Code now in force and hereafter to be adopted; repealing all laws and
parts of laws in conflict herewith; fixing penalties for violations, and
declaring emergency account of the present lack of inspection and insanitary
manner of killing and handling meats and consequent danger to health.
Be it Ordained by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock , Texas:
Section 1. There is hereby created the office of inspector of Food for this
City, who shall be under the head of the Health Department, whose duties shall
be such as prescribed by the Head of such Department, and also, he shall inspec
all animals intended for slaughter and to be sold, either wholly or in part wittin
this City, and if on inspection of any such animal it shall be found unfit for
food, same shall be condemned and not sold within this city, either wholly or i
part; no person, save one who has possessed such animal for at least six months
before slaughter shall offer any part thereof for sale in the City without havi g
same previously so inspected and passed as sound and wholesome; provided that
the exemption in the preceeding clauses shall not apply to persons engaged in Ute
business of selling meats in this city.
Section 2. There is hereby established a municipal slaughter house
under direction of the Department of Health, whereat all animals to be sold
either wholly or in part within this City shall be slaughtered and pre-
pared for market, save those exempt in the preceeding section, and the
fees to be charged for the use of said slaughter house and appliances, in-
cluding water, shall not exceed for each animal, and the inspection fee for
each animal shall be the sum of , to be paid before inspection is
made,such slaughter house shall at all times be constructed and conducted
according to the Rules and Regulations of the Sanitary Code of the State
Health Department.
Section 3. Nothing herein shall be held to repeal any part of the
Ordinance of this City now in force regulating the slaughter of animals
not required to be slaughtered at the Municipal Slaughter House; and the in-
spector of Food may, at any time he sees fit, inspect any meats offered for
sale within the City, and any person refusing him right of immediate inspection
shall be deemed to violate this Ordinance.
Section 4. All ordinances and parts in conflict herewith are repealed.
Section 5. Any person violating any provision hereof shall upon con-
viction be punished by a fine of not less than Five and not more
then One Hundred Dollars and each animal shall be a separate offense.
Section 6. The fact that there is great danger to the health of the
citizens from meats diseased or handled in an insanitary manner, creates
an emergency and public necessity that the rule of the Charter requiring
proposed ordinances to be read at two several meetings be, and the
same is, hereby suspended, and this Ordinance be passed at the meeting of its
introduction, and it is so enacted.
Passed and approved this , 1923.
T. R. Friend
Mayor, City of Lubbock
Attest:
J. R. Germany
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas.