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sary to test the same, and may confiscate such milk if found unwholesome as 

 specified in this ordinance, and shall arrest and prosecute any person found 

 selling, exposing, or offering for sale any milk in violation of this ordinance. 



SEC. 19. Inspector; test of samples. The said inspector may have tests made 

 of milk samples for fat, adulteration by water or any solid or liquid for pre- 

 servatives, or bacterial contents, or the bacterial contents of water used for 

 cleaning milk utensils by sending samples to the director of experiment station 

 at Manhattan, Kans., with description of test desired. The result of such test 

 shall be taken as correct. 



SEC. 20. Inspector; rules and regulations. The inspector shall have authority, 

 by and with advice of the State dairy commissioner and interested dairymen, to 

 formulate rules and regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this 

 ordinance, which shall, when approved by the board of commissioners of the 

 city of Topeka, be in force and effect binding as parts of this ordinance. 



SEC. 21. Penalty. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, 

 or any officer, agent, servant, or employee of such person, firm, or corporation, to 

 violate any of the provisions of this ordinance ; and any person, firm, or corpora- 

 tion, or any officer, agent, servant, or employee of such person, firm, or corpora- 

 tion, violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of 

 a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not 

 less than $5 nor more than $100 for each offense; and such person shall thereby 

 forfeit his registration certificate. 



SEC. 22. No prosecution now pending, and no offenses heretofore committed 

 under ordinances heretofore enacted, shall be affected in any way by the pro- 

 visions of this ordinance; but all such prosecutions shall be conducted to final 

 judgment and all such offenses shall be prosecuted in the same manner as if 

 this ordinance had not been enacted. 



SEC. 23. Repeal. Ordinance No. 2938, approved May 5, 1909, entitled "An 

 ordinance creating the office of milk inspector in the city of Topeka, providing 

 for his appointment, and regulating the sale and delivery of milk, cream, and 

 ice cream in said city, providing penalties for the violation thereof, and repeal- 

 ing ordinance No. 2871, approved August 6, 1908, and all ordinances and parts 

 of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance." and ordinance No. 2946, approved 

 May 26, 1909, amending section 2 of said ordinance No. 2938, and all other ordi- 

 nances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby 

 repealed. 



SEC. 24. Taking effect. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from 

 and after its publication in the official city paper. 



Passed the board of commissioners October 24, 1910. 



Approved October 25, 1910. 



[SEAL.] J. B. BILLABD, Mayor. 



Attest : 



C. B. BURGE, City Clerk. 



WHEELING, W. VA. 



AN ORDINANCE Regulating the sale of milk and prohibiting the sale or exchange of 

 unclean, impure, adulterated, or unwholesome milk or cream ; providing for the issuing 

 of permits to persons engaged in dealing in milk ; for the inspection of samples ; author- 

 izing the health officer to require the tuberculin test of any herd suspected of infec- 

 tion with tuberculosis, etc. 



Be it ordained, by the council of the city of Wheeling: 



SECTION 1. No person, dealer, firm, or corporation shall bring or send into 

 the city of Wheeling, W. Va., or sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or 

 exchange, any milk without first having obtained a legal permit so to do, to 

 be furnished without cost by the city health officer. The applicant will be 

 required to present a satisfactory certificate from the city veterinarian show- 

 ing his premises and herd to be in a clean and sanitary condition and his 

 herd free from disease. Such permits must be renewed in the month of May 

 each year and such permit must be furnished without cost to the applicant. 

 The health officer may require the tuberculin test of any herd suspected of 

 infection with tuberculosis. After the permit is granted, no person, dealer, 

 firm, or corporation may change source of milk or cream supply without 

 the approval of the city health officer, and no permit shall be transferred with- 

 out consent of said health officer. 



