[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the City of
Hoboken 1-7-1959[1]. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Health/Sanitary Code — See Ch. 115.
No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale or aid in the
selling or offering or exposing for sale of any horse flesh or of
provisions of food for human consumption containing horse flesh and
other animal flesh unless every piece or package or parcel thereof
has conspicuously attached thereto a label, not less than three inches
wide and four inches long, on which is printed or stamped, in letters
not less than one inch in height, the words "horse flesh."
No person shall distribute, transport or have in his possession,
intended as food for human consumption, any meat or meat product or
provisions containing any meat or meat product to which any sodium
sulphite, sodium bisulphite or any drug, chemical, chemical compound
or preservative from which sulphur dioxide can be liberated has been
added thereto or mixed therewith.
No horse flesh shall be sold or offered or exposed for sale
or be in the possession of any person for the purpose of sale or offering
for sale unless it has been inspected and slaughtered under United
States government regulations and regulations prescribed by legislative
enactments of the State of New Jersey and/or by the Department of
Health of the State of New Jersey and/or by its Director of Health.
Horse flesh sold for human consumption shall not be ground together
with flesh of food animals except upon request and in the presence
of a purchaser thereof, and it shall be ground in a machine specially
utilized for grinding horse flesh and so plainly labeled and, when
so ground, shall be tagged or labeled as containing horse flesh.
In any butcher shop or business establishment where horse flesh
or other animal flesh is sold or offered or exposed for sale, the
horse flesh shall be hung or racked on one side of a refrigerator
or icebox, and no other animal flesh shall be hung or racked on the
same side of such refrigerator or icebox on which horse flesh is hung
or racked.
All tags, labels, stamps or brands placed upon or affixed to
horse flesh hung or racked in any refrigerator or icebox in a butcher
shop or other business establishment of any kind where horse flesh
is kept for sale as food for human consumption shall be plainly visible
to any Health Officer or other person connected with the State of
New Jersey Department of Health or to the Health Officer or other
representative of the Board of Health of the City of Hoboken entering
such refrigerator or icebox at any time for the purpose of inspecting
the contents thereof.
No provision manufacturer shall, within the City of Hoboken,
use horse flesh mixed with the flesh of other animals slaughtered
and intended for use as food for human consumption in the manufacture
of the product of such manufacturer without a permit therefor issued
by the Board of Health of the City of Hoboken or by the Health Officer
of the Board, and every such manufacturer whose product is made of
horse flesh, in whole or in part, shall tag, stamp or brand every
article of such product as containing horse flesh.
No person shall, as a distributor or dealer in any of the articles
mentioned in this chapter, engage in business within the City of Hoboken
for the purpose of selling or offering or exposing for sale any products
such as mentioned hereinabove, intended for use as food for human
consumption, without a permit therefor issued by the Board of Health
of the City of Hoboken or the Health Officer of the Board. Application
for such permit shall be upon blanks furnished by the Clerk of the
Board of Health and upon payment of a permit fee of $5. The permit,
when issued, shall be conspicuously displayed to public view on the
premises for which such permit is issued in such manner as to be clearly
readable by patrons of the permittee.
Any person engaged within the City of Hoboken in the conduct
of a restaurant or other eating place catering to public patronage
shall not serve as food for human consumption to patrons thereof horse
flesh or any article of food containing horse flesh without affixing
thereto when served a label on which shall be clearly printed the
words "this is horse flesh" or "this contains horse flesh," as the
case may be.
No horse flesh or article or product containing horse flesh
shall be sold or offered or exposed for sale in any butcher shop,
delicatessen shop, hotel, restaurant or other business establishment
to be consumed upon any such premises or to be carried or delivered
therefrom as an article of food for human consumption unless such
is tagged, labeled, stamped or branded with clearly legible lettering
manifesting that such, in whole or in part, as the case may be, contained
horse flesh.
No person shall erase, cancel, obliterate, deface, cover, remove
or alter any tag, label, stamp or brand required by any provision
of this chapter to be attached or affixed to any article hereinabove
mentioned.
[Amended 11-4-1987 by Ord. No. V-140]
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall, upon
conviction thereof before the Municipal Court be subject to a fine
in any sum not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding 90 days, or both.
