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Sec. 4. On and after the day of , 1906, no milk will be allowed to 



be sold or offered for sale or brought into the city from any cow or cows unless 

 the owner of said cow or cows holds a certificate of the chief veterinarian or 

 other veterinarian acceptable to the board of health that said cow or cows 

 are free from tuberculosis, as shown by the tuberculin test. 



Sec. 5. Any person selling or offering for sale any milk from uninspected 

 cows shall have his license revoked upon the recommendation of the chief 

 veterinarian. 



PART FIVE. 



Title III Milk. 



Section 1. No person shall bring into the city for sale, or shall sell or offer for 

 sale, any milk, without a permit from the superintendent of sanitation. 



Sec. 2. No person shall bring into the city for sale, or shall sell or offer for 

 for sale, any milk which has been obtained from any milk dealer, dairyman, 

 or other person not having a permit or the official license based on the approval 

 of the chief veterinarian. 



Sec. 3. Any dairyman, milk dealer, or other person, upon application to the 

 health office for a permit to sell or deliver milk, shall file a sworn statement 

 giving his name and address, the number of cows he owns or has charge of, 

 the average amount of milk (estimated) which he sells each day, the names, 

 addresses, and license numbers of all persons from whom he buys milk, the 

 average amount of milk (estimated) which he buys from them each day, the 

 average amount of milk (estimated) sold by each of them each day, and the 

 number of cows owned by or in charge of each. 



S,ec. 4. No person shall bring into the city for sale, or shall sell or offer for 

 sale, any milk 



(a) Containing more than 88 per cent of water or fluids. 



(&) Containing less than 12 per cent of milk solids. 



(c) Containing less than 3 per cent of fats. 



(d) From which any part of the cream has been removed. 



(e) Having a specific gravity of less than 10.. J. 



(/) Containing any boracic or salicylic acid, formaldehyde, or other foreign 

 chemical. 



(g) Containing any pathogenic bacteria. 



(h) Containing bacteria of any kind, more than 500.000 per cubic centimeter. 



(i) Drawn from any cow having a communicable disease, or from a herd 

 which contains any diseased cattle, or from a herd the attendants of which 

 are afflicted with or have been exposed to any communicable disease. 



(/) Drawn from any cow within 15 days before or after parturition. 



(fc) Drawn from any cow which has been fed on garbage, refuse, swill, moist 

 distillery waste, or other improper food. 



(I) Having a temperature or which has been kept at a temperature higher 

 than 55 F. 



(m) Which has existed or has been kept under conditions contrary to the 

 provisions of this code. 



Provided, That the first five subdivisions of this section shall not apply to 

 milk sold under the name of " skimmed milk," as provided in section 5 of this 

 title.- 



SEC. 5. No person shall bring into the city for sale, or sell or offer for sale, 

 milk from which the cream has been removed, either in part or in whole, unless 

 sold as skimmed milk, and unless on both sides of the vehicle from which such 

 milk is sold, in letters not less than 1 inch in height, the words " skimmed 

 milk," or if not sold from a vehicle, upon each and every vessel from which 

 such milk is sold, there be painted a bright red band in width at least one-tenth 

 the height of said vessel, or displayed in plain and legible manner, the words 

 " skimmed milk." 



SEC. 6. No person shall bring into the city for sale, or sell or offer for sale, 

 any so-called skimmed milk containing less than 9& per cent of milk solids. 



SEC. 7. No person shall ship or store any milk in any basement, cellar, re- 

 frigerator, milk house, dairy, or other place unless such place have 1 square foot 

 of window space to each 4 square feet of floor space. Such place shall be pro- 

 vided with a cement floor, properly drained, and shall contain a vat made of 

 nonabsorbent material large enough to store all milk. Windows and doors shall 

 be provided, from May 1 to September 30, inclusive, with sound screens of 

 mesh sufficiently fine to keep out flies and other insects, 



