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(/) Drawn from any cow having a communicable disease or showing clinical 

 symptoms of tuberculosis, or from a herd which contains any diseased cattle, 

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



(fc) Drawn from any cow within 15 days before or 12 days after parturition. 



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

 distillery waste, or other improper food. 



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

 than 65 F. 



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

 provisions of this code. 



(o) No milk shall be kept, sold, or offered for sale drawn from cows suffering 

 with sore and inflamed udders and teats, or from cows diseased. 



Provided that the subdivisions (a), (&), (c), and (d) of this section shall not 

 apply to milk sold under the name of " skimmed milk." 



Sec. 13. Retailers. All grocers, bakers, or other persons having or offering for 

 sale milk or cream, shall at all times keep the names and addresses of the 

 dairymen from whom the milk on sale was obtained posted up in a conspicuous 

 place wherever such milk may be sold or offered for sale. If skimmed milk is 

 kept or offered for sale, each and every container of such milk shall be plainly 

 marked with the words " skimmed milk " in letters not less than 1 inch in 

 height 



Sec. 14. Skimmed milk. (a) 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 on two sides of the container from which such milk is 

 sold there appears in red letters, not less than 1 inch in height, the words 

 " skimmed milk." 



(&) No person shall bring into the city for sale or sell or offer for sale any 

 so-called skimmed milk containing less than 9.3 per cent of milk solids. 



Sec. 35. Storage. (a) No person shall ship or store any milk in any base- 

 ment, cellar, refrigerator, milk house, dairy or other place unless such place 

 have 1 square foot of window space to each 4 square feet of floor, wtih 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 October 1, inclusive, with sound screens of mesh sufficiently fine 

 to keep out flies and other insects. 



( & ) No person shall store any milk in any basement, cellar, refrigerator, milk 

 house, dairy, or other place which is within 15 feet of any water-closet or 

 privy vault or cesspool, or any horse or cow stable, or any chicken or poultry 

 yard or coop. 



Sec. 16. Milk delivery wagons. (a) No one shall use any vehicle for the de- 

 livery of milk in the city of Columbus which has not painted thereon in legible 

 Roman letters not less than 3 inches in height, and on both sides of the vehicle 

 in a conspicuous place, the name and location of his dairy and the number of 

 his permit, and if such vender sells skimmed milk, each and every container 

 of skimmed milk shall have the words " skimmed milk " thereon in plain let- 

 ters not less than 1 inch in height. 



Sec. 16b. Every person using in the sale or distribution of milk a delivery 

 wagon or other vehicle shall keep the same at all times in a cleanly condition 

 and free from 'any substance liable to contaminate or injure the purity of the 

 milk, and from May 1 to October 1 shall have and keep over such delivery 

 wagon or other vehicle a covering of canvas or other material so arranged as 

 to thoroughly protect the contents thereof from the rays and heat of the sun. 



Sec. 17. Sealed container. Wholesale delivery. No person or dealer shall 

 sell, offer for sale, or deliver any milk, buttermilk, whey, sour milk, skimmed 

 milk, cream, Dutch cheese, or other milk product in quantities exceeding 1 

 gallon unless the can or receptacle containing the same is securely sealed by 

 lock and chain, wire, or other contrivance equally efficient : Provided, however, 

 That the persons or dealer engaged exclusively in the wholesale delivery or sale 

 of milk, buttermilk, whey, sour milk, cream, skimmed milk, Dutch cheese, or 

 other milk products from wagons not carrying milk for retail customers, may 

 deliver the same from unsealed cans or receptacles: And provided further, 

 That said wagon or wagons shall have inscribed conspicuously thereon in plain 

 letters, not less than 3 inches in height, the words " wholesale delivery." 



Sec. 18. Original container. No person or milk dealer shall sell, deliver, sell 

 or offer to sell, or keep for sale in stores, milk or cream, in quantities less than 

 1 gallon unless delivered and kept in the original package or container. (Ex- 

 ception : Original packages of not greater capacity than 1 quart may be broken 

 for sale if the unsold portion is kept in the original package, properly closed.) 



