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by the commissioner of health because of disease on the premises, temporary 

 insanitary condition, or similar causes. Such permits shall not be transferable, 

 and no permit issued hereunder shall entitle or authorize the holders thereof to 

 carry on, engage in, or conduct the business of vendor of milk in any place or 

 places other than that described and set out in such permit. If any person 

 having a permit to vend milk, as aforesaid, shall change the location of his or 

 its place of business, notice of such proposed change shall be given to said com- 

 missioner of health, and his consent in writing received to conduct such busi- 

 ness at such new location ; and no business shall be conducted or carried on at 

 such new location until such consent has been received. Any person or corpora- 

 tion, or officer, agent, or servant thereof, who shall sell or offer for sale, expose 

 for sale, dispose of, exchange, or deliver, or with intent to do so, as aforesaid, 

 have in his, its, or their possession, care, custody, or control in Baltimore city, 

 or who shall cause to be offered or sold milk or cream for human food without 

 first having obtained a permit, as aforesaid, shall be fined not less than $5 nor 

 more than $100 for each offense. 



[Ord. 103, May 6, 1908.] 



55B. Every vendor of milk having a permit, as aforesaid, shall, whenever so 

 required, furnish the commissioner of health a statement of all changes in the 

 data and information provided for in the preceding section, and shall also, 

 whenever so required, furnish him a list of all persons from whom he or it 

 receives milk or cream for use in his said business, whether said shipments be 

 from within or outside the city of Baltimore; and said commissioner of health 

 shall have power by regulation to require that changes or additions in said lists 

 of shippers shall be furnished him from time to time as they occur. Said com- 

 missioner of health shall keep a record of such shippers, when furnished as 

 aforesaid, for the use of his office, but the same shall not be open to the inspec- 

 tion of other persons. Any person or officer of a corporation failing to furnish 

 lists, data, or information, as aforesaid, when so required by the commissioner of 

 health, shall be fined not more than $50 for each offense. 



[Ibid.] 



55c. The permit to engage in the vending of milk, hereinbefore referred to, 

 shall be posted conspicuously in the applicant's place of business, at a point to 

 be designated by the commissioner of health or a health inspector. Each vendor 

 of milk shall, before engaging in the sale of milk or cream, cause his name or 

 the name of the dairy and the permit number, the former in letters of a read- 

 able size and permit number in figures not less than 3 inches in height, to be 

 placed and remain on each outer side of all wagons or other vehicles used by 

 such vendors in the conveyance or sale of milk or cream. Any persons or cor- 

 poration failing to so display said permit or to cause the lettering aforesaid to be 

 displayed on any wagon or other vehicle used as aforesaid, as in this section 

 provided, shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each offense ; 

 and each and every day on which said person or corporation shall fail to display 

 such permit, as herein provided, or shall drive or operate, or cause to be driven 

 or operated, any such wagon or other vehicle in violation of the provisions of 

 this section, shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. 



[Ord. 103, May 6, 1908.] 



55o. The commissioner of health shall have power to adopt such regulations 

 as he may deem proper and necessary to insure all milk and cream intended 

 for consumption in Baltimore city being produced, transported, stored, kept, 

 distributed, retailed, and delivered under conditions rendering them suitable 

 for consumption as human food and to compel perfect hygienic and sanitary 

 conditions of all cow stables, creameries, and dairies from which milk and 

 cream so intended for consumption in Baltimore city are produced ; such regu- 

 lations not to be inconsistent with existing laws or ordinances, and copies of 

 the same to be printed and kept for free distribution to the public; and said 

 commissioner of health shall have power to prohibit the sale within the cor- 

 porate limits of Baltimore city of milk or cream produced, transported, stored, 

 kept, distributed, retailed, or delivered contrary to such regulations, whether 

 said milk or cream be produced within or outside the corporate limits of the 

 city of Baltimore ; and to the end that said regulations may be enforced in the 

 case of milk or cream produced outside the corporate limits of the city of 



