VERMONT. 193 



7. Penalty for hindering health officer. Whoever hinders, obstructs, or in 

 any way interferes with any jnember of the state board of health or any local 

 health officer in the performance of his duties under this act, shall be fined 

 not more than fifty dollars for the first offense, and for each subsequent offense 

 shall be fined one hundred dollars. 



8. Duplicate sample shall be delivered to defendant. Before commencing the 

 analysis of a sample, the analyst shall reserve a portion, which shall be sealed ; 

 and in case of a complaint or indictment, part of the reserved portion of the 

 sample alleged to be adulterated shall, upon application, be delivered to the 

 defendant or his attorney, and part to the secretary of the state board of health. 



18. State board of health to regulate enforcement of law. The State board 

 of health shall, as soon as may be after this act takes effect, adopt such rules 

 and regulations, not inconsistent with existing laws, as it deems necessary to 

 facilitate the enforcement of the provisions of this act, and for the collecting 

 and examining of drugs, foods, liquors, and candy, articles of clothing, fabrics, 

 wall paper or anything containing poisonous pigments or substances whereby 

 the health of any person may be injured. Said board shall cause said rules 

 and regulations to be printed in pamphlet form for distribution, shall furnish 

 to each local health officer a sufficient number of copies to supply the members 

 of the local board of health and all practicing physicians in such town, and 

 furnish to each town clerk a sufficient number of copies for distribution under 

 the provisions of law as to the distribution of the acts and resolves of the 

 general assembly ; and it shall be the duty of said local health officers and town 

 clerks to distribute the same. Any violation of any such rule or regulation 

 made under the provisions of this act, shall be punished by a fine of not more 

 than five hundred dollars. 



19. Penalty. If any person violates any of the provisions of this act, for 

 which no penalty is hereinbefore provided, he shall be fined not more than one 

 hundred dollars and not less than fifty dollars. 



22. Duty of State board of health to make complaint. It is hereby made the 

 duty of the state board of health, or agent thereof, to bring to the notice of the 

 proper prosecuting officer any violation of any United States statute for pre- 

 venting the adulteration or misbranding of food or drugs. 



Laws, 1904, p. 198-202. 



ADULTERATION OF LIQUORS AND POISONS. 



9. Penalty. Whoever adulterates, for the purpose of sale, any liquor used 

 or intended for drink, with cocculus indicus, vitriol, grains of paradise, opium, 

 alum, capsicum, copperas, laurel-water, logwood, Brazil wood, cochineal, sugar 

 of lead, or any other substance which is poisonous or injurious to health, or 

 knowingly sells any such liquor so adulterated, shall be imprisoned not exceed- 

 ing one year, or be fined not more than one thousand dollars. 



Laws, 1904, p. 199. 



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