[Adopted 9-7-1967 as § 9-12
of the Revised General Ordinances]
No meat shall be sold for human consumption
within the City unless it bears the meat inspection brand or other
mark of identification of the United States Department of Agriculture,
or unless it has been marked, inspected and passed by the Meat Inspector
of the City or his/her duly authorized agent.
No meat shall be passed for sale unless it has
been slaughtered in strict conformity with all applicable state laws
and regulations at a bona fide slaughterhouse. The sale of meat slaughtered
by farmers or other persons and not at a slaughterhouse is hereby
prohibited.
A.
FOOD DEALER
Definition. As used in this section, the following
term shall have the meaning indicated:
Any person, or his/her agents, servants or employees, engaged
in the business of selling, offering or exposing for sale, food at
retail for human consumption, either on or off the premises where
sold.
B.
Packaging and labeling. It shall be unlawful for any
food dealer in the City to sell or offer or expose for sale, at retail,
any sealed, prepackaged, unprocessed or untreated fresh or frozen
cut meat or fowl unless the package is colorless and transparent on
all sides, exclusive of labeling which shall not exceed five square
inches of one side of the package, of which fresh or frozen cut meat
or fowl is layered or shingled, making the entire contents of the
package not wholly visible. The packaged material shall not be layered,
overlapped or sealed so as to obliterate the clarity of the transparency
of the packaging or to obscure in any manner the visibility or transparency
of the package. The package of fresh or frozen cut meat or fowl shall
be stamped or shall have printed prominently on the face of the label
the date when the contents thereof was originally processed and packaged.
