[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Caledonia 4-29-1941. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Waste from slaughterhouses — See Ch. 107, § 107-11.
Zoning — See Ch. 130.
No person, firm or corporation shall carry on or conduct a business of a slaughterhouse in the Town of Caledonia without having procured a license therefor from the Health Officer of said Town.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following words, phrases, names and terms shall be construed respectively to mean:
ANIMAL
Any cattle, calves, sheep, swine or goats intended for human consumption.
CARCASS
All parts or portions, including viscera, of any slaughtered animal, as "animal" is defined above.
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE
A certification by the Health Officer of the Town of Caledonia that the establishment named therein has been inspected and found to comply in all respects with the requirements of this chapter.
CURED MEAT
Any meat or meat food product which shall have been manufactured, handled or prepared by salting or other form of curing, pickling, smoking or similar treating or processing.
FRESH MEAT
Meat that has remained in the state it is in immediately after having been slaughtered, dressed or prepared without having been cured, pickled, cooked, smoked, processed or treated in any other way except by washing and refrigeration.
INSPECTED AND CONDEMNED
A carcass or any portion thereof or any meat or meat food products so stamped is unwholesome and unfit for food and shall be destroyed for food purposes.
INSPECTED AND PASSED (or any authorized abbreviation thereof)
A carcass or any portion thereof or any meat or meat food products so stamped is wholesome and fit for food purposes at the time of stamping.
INSPECTOR
A duly qualified veterinarian or physician of the Board of Health of the Town of Caledonia, or a person acting under its direct supervision.
MANUFACTURED
Any process of cooking, curing, smoking, salting, seasoning, pickling, rendering, stuffing, treating, processing or otherwise preparing fresh or cured meats.
MEAT
The whole carcass or any part or portion of an animal that has been slaughtered, dressed or prepared in such manner that it may be used for food.
MEAT FOOD PRODUCT
Any food product containing meat as herein defined, either separately or in combination with seasoning, cereals, vegetables, flour or any other food and either fresh-cooked, smoked, prepared or manufactured in any way.
OFFICIAL INSPECTION LEGEND
A mark, stamp or statement authorized by this chapter on any article of meat or meat food product or on the container of such indicating that the same has been inspected and passed for food by an authorized inspector.
PRIMAL PARTS
The usual sections, cuts or parts of the dressed carcass, commonly known in the trade as sides, quarters, shoulders, hams, backs, flanks, bellies, lungs, heart, tongue, liver, kidneys, before they have been cut, shredded or otherwise subdivided preliminary to use in the manufacture of meat food products.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Any establishment in the Town of Caledonia wherein live cattle, sheep, swine or goats are killed, slaughtered, dressed and prepared, cured, smoked, salted, packed or rendered.
UNWHOLESOME
All meat and meat food products which are so affected with disease that it would be dangerous to health to use them wholly or in part for food; also all meat and meat food products which are contaminated, putrid, unsound, unhealthful or otherwise unfit for food or produced or handled under conditions contrary to the provisions of this chapter; and all meats and meat food products which have been derived from any animal that dies as a result of disease or accident or which was in a dying condition at the time of slaughter.
A. 
Applications for licenses to conduct slaughterhouses in the Town of Caledonia shall be made to the Health Officer and shall contain such information as he may request.
B. 
The Health Officer may revoke the license of any slaughterhouse for violation of the provisions of this chapter.
C. 
The annual fee for slaughterhouse license shall be as set forth from time to time by resolution of the Town Board.
[Amended 8-11-1994 by L.L. No. 4-1994]
No person shall sell, expose for sale, handle, possess or offer for sale in the Town of Caledonia any meat or meat food products which are unsound, unhealthy or unwholesome. All meat which is sold, exposed for sale, handled, possessed or offered for sale in the Town of Caledonia shall bear the official inspection stamp of the United States government or any state or designated municipality, including the Town of Caledonia, which has been placed thereon by authority of regulations no less stringent than those provided in this chapter.
All slaughterhouses shall upon demand give to any authorized meat inspector of the Board of Health of the Town of Caledonia the sources and kinds of animals, meat and meat food products which they receive, handle or sell. No slaughterhouse shall sell, expose for sale, handle or offer for sale in the Town of Caledonia any animals, meat or meat food products obtained from any but a source approved by the Health Officer of the Town of Caledonia.
No person, firm or corporation shall slaughter within the Town of Caledonia any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats used for human food and to be offered for sale, except in a slaughterhouse licensed by the Board of Health.
No person shall sell, offer for sale, handle or possess the meat or meat food products of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats or other animals designated for food in the Town of Caledonia, except such as are slaughtered or handled under the supervision of a United States government inspector in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the Department of Agriculture of the United States regulating the same; or by an official inspector of, in the employ of and operating under the laws of a designated municipality; or under the supervision of an inspector of the Town of Caledonia in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and unless there has been placed on each primal part thereof, package or container thereof, by and under the personal supervision of the respective inspector, a mark, stamp, label or brand showing that the same has been inspected and passed for food purposes by the respective authority.
Slaughtering and inspection of all animals shall be conducted at slaughterhouses on such days and hours as may be designated by the Health Officer, except in certain cases of emergency when permission to slaughter may be granted by the Health Officer, provided that the carcass of each animal slaughtered under such permission is properly tagged and contains the viscera with natural attachments for proper inspection.
A. 
All slaughterhouses where cattle, sheep, swine or goats whose carcass is used for human food is received, slaughtered and prepared for sale and delivery shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and shall be equipped with adequate water and lavatory facilities conveniently located and shall also provide adequate means for the disposal of all waste material. In addition to these requirements, each slaughterhouse shall comply with the sanitary regulations of the Health Officer.
B. 
No outside disposal or composting of carcasses, dead animals, or any by-products shall be allowed, and all slaughterhouse operations shall be confined to an enclosed building within the premises of the slaughterhouse's facility.
[Added 7-13-2006 by L.L. No. 1-2006]
Except in emergency cases, where slaughtering is done as provided in § 101-8, all animals slaughtered in establishments operating under the provisions of this chapter shall be given antemortem and postmortem inspections by an authorized veterinarian of the Board of Health of the Town of Caledonia in accordance with the following:
A. 
Inspection on the hoof. No person shall slaughter any calves, cattle, goats, sheep or swine, except under the direction of an official veterinarian after his inspection of such animals on the hoof.
B. 
Method of inspection. Every portion of any animal slaughtered and intended for food and food products shall be inspected by a veterinarian of the Board of Health and marked by him or his duly authorized assistants in accordance with the regulations for meat inspection of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture.
A. 
The following official stamps shall be established and used only by authorized inspectors of the Board of Health of the Town of Caledonia, except as herein provided:
(1) 
"Inspected and Passed."
(2) 
"Inspected and Condemned."
B. 
The carcass of all animals, meat or meat food products as herein defined or the container thereof inspected by official inspectors of the Town of Caledonia, New York, shall be stamped with an official stamp, emblem or legend established by the Board of Health, and no person without official authority shall mark or stamp any animal, carcass, meat or meat food product or the containers thereof in imitation of the official mark, stamp or emblem of the Town of Caledonia, New York.
No animal, carcass, primal part or meat food product shall be marked with the official inspection legend of the Board of Health of the Town of Caledonia, except under the supervision of an authorized veterinarian of the Board of Health.
Veterinarians and inspectors enforcing this chapter shall have the right to enter at any time, for the purpose of inspection, any place where any animal, carcass or part thereof is kept, stored, held, exposed or offered for sale for food. No person shall resist, obstruct or interfere with any authorized veterinarian or meat inspector of the Board of Health of the Town of Caledonia in the performance of his duties.
Whenever any animal, carcass, primal part, meat, fresh meat, cured meat or meat food product shall be found unwholesome and unfit for human consumption, it shall be marked with the official inspection legend "Inspected and Condemned" by or under the supervision of an official veterinarian of the Board of Health of the Town of Caledonia, and the same shall be disposed of as such authorized veterinarian may direct.
[Amended 8-11-1994 by L.L. No. 4-1994]
A violation of this chapter is punishable by a fine not exceeding $250 or by imprisonment not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, or by a penalty of not more than $500 to be recovered by the Town of Caledonia in a civil action.