MASSACHUSETTS. 39 



MEAT.? 



SEC. 1. Prohibition; penalty. The sale, offer or exposure for sale, or delivery 

 for use as food, of the carcass, or any part or product thereof, of any animal 

 which has come to its death in any manner or by any means otherwise than by 

 slaughter or killing while in a healthy condition, or which at the time of its 

 death is unfit by reason of disease, exhaustion, abuse, neglect or otherwise for 

 use as food, or of any calf weighing less than forty pounds when dressed, with 

 head, feet, hide and entrails removed, is hereby declared to be unlawful and 

 prohibited. Whoever sells or offers or exposes for sale or delivers or causes or 

 autliorix.es to be sold, offered or exposed for sale or delivered for use as food 

 any such can-ass or any part or product thereof, shall be punished by fine of not 

 more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six 

 months. 



Sir. L. Inspectors of state and municipal boards of health; seizure and de- 

 tttnn-tion f unlan-ful products. The state board of health and its inspectors, 

 and the state inspectors of health and all boards of health of cities and towns 

 and their insi>ector8, officers, agents and assistants in their respective districts, 

 shall have and exercise the same powers and duties in and for the enforcement 

 of this act as are at any time conferred or imposed by law upon any board of 

 health, inspector, officer, agent or assistant in respect of any other article or 

 substance the sale or use of which for food is unlawful or prohibited ; and it 

 shall l>e their duty to seize any such carcass or part or product thereof as 

 ribed In section one hereof, and cause the same to be destroyed forthwith 

 or disposed of otherwise than for food ; and all moneys received by any board 

 of health for any property so disposed of shall, after deducting the expenses 

 :-h sei/.ure and disposal, be paid to the owner of such property if known. 



' a to be inspected. Such Inspectors, officers, agents and assistants 

 shall visit and keep under observation all places within their respective districts 

 at which neat cattle, sheep, swine or other animals intended for slaughter or 

 for sale or use as food are delivered from transportation, and shall have at all 

 times free access to all such places and to all railroad trains or cars or other 

 vehicles in which such animals may be transported, for the purpose of pre- 

 vent i: >ns of this act and of detecting and punishing the same. 



i. Pouters of inspection. The state Inspectors of health in their re- 

 spective districts, and the inspectors appointed by the state board of health for 

 duties relative to the sale of food and drugs, shall have the same rights, powers 

 and authority for and in respect of the inspection, seizure and disposition of all 

 carcasses, meats and provisions which are tainted, diseased, corrupted, decayed, 

 unwholesome. .r from any cause unfit for food, or the sale of which for food 

 is unlawful, as are conferred by sections seventy and seventy-one of chapter 

 tifty six ami by section one hundred and two of chapter seventy-five of the 

 Revised Laws, or by other laws, upon boards of health of cities and towns or 

 their insi>ector8 in respect of the articles therein specified; with power to prose- 

 cute all offences relating thereto. 



-effort of slaughter houses. In addition to the supervision now 

 provided for by law, all slaughter houses shall be under the supervision of the 

 state board of health and subject to inspection by the state inspectors of health 

 in their respective districts. 



SEC. 6. Amendment. Section one hundred and five of chapter seventy-five of 

 the Revised Laws, as amended by section two of chapter three hundred and 

 twelve of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and two, and by section two of 



See also General Food Law, page 38. 



