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consumer of milk or milk products, any unclean, unwholesome, 

 stale, or impure milk, cream, butter or condensed or evaporated 

 milk, or other article produced from such milk or cream, neither 

 shall any person or persons, firm or corporation, by themselves 

 or their agents or employees, sell, expose for sale, or offer for 

 sale, or exchange, present or deliver to any consumer, cream- 

 ery, cheese factory, milk condensing factory, or any other buyer 

 or consumer, any milk, cream, butter, cheese, condensed milk 

 or other products manufactured therefrom, which has been 

 produced in or by a dairy, or factory of dairy products, or 

 that is or has been handled in any store or depot, that is in an 

 unsanitary condition, or that is produced from cows affected 

 by any disease, or from cows/witlgnf five days after or fifteen 

 days preceding parturition.^/^^^ 



SEC. la. Every person, firm or corporation, not a common Milk 

 carrier, who receives from a common carrier in cans, bottles, 

 vessels, or other containers, any milk, cream and ice cream 

 intended for human consumption, which has been transported 

 over any railroad, or boat or freight line, or by other common 

 carrier, or auto truck, which said cans, bottles, vessels, or other 

 containers, are to be returned to the consignor or shipper, 

 shall cause the said empty cans, bottles, vessels, or other con- 

 tainers, to be thoroughly cleansed and sterilized by boiling 

 water or superheated steam before return shipment of the 

 same; provided, further, that all empty cans, bottles, vessels, 

 or other containers, delivered to the consumer by the retailer 

 shall be thoroughly and immediately cleansed before returning 

 the same to the dealer or distributor. (Added, Stats. 1917, 

 p. 1657.) 



SEC. 2. A dairy shall be deemed unsanitary within the 

 meaning of this act, among other causes that render milk, or 

 products made therefrom, unclean, impure, and unhealthy, in 

 the following cases : 



(a) If the drinking water is stagnant, polluted with manure, 

 urine, drainage, decaying vegetable or animal matter. 



(6) If the yards or enclosures are filthy or unsanitary or if 

 any part of such yards or enclosures, other than pastures, are 

 made the depositories of manure in heaps or otherwise where 

 it is allowed to ferment and decay. 



(c) If a suitable milk house or room is not provided and 

 maintained, properly screened to exclude flies and insects, for 

 the purpose of cooling, mixing, canning, and keeping the milk. 

 Said milk house or room, shall not be located in or be a part of 

 any residence, or dwelling house, or any barn or poultry house, 

 and shall not be used for any other purpose whatsoever. 



(d) If any milk or cream shall be cooled, stored, mixed, 

 canned, or kept in any room or place which is occupied by 

 any person or persons as a sleeping or living apartment, or 

 occupied by horses, cows, hogs or other animals, or fowls of 

 any kind, and if the milk or cream shall not be cooled to as 



