§ 603-1. Meat Inspection, Powers of Health Commissioner.

The health commissioner or any authorized assistant may enter at any time, and no person shall hinder or prevent such entry, any place in this city where live cattle, calves, sheep, goats or swine are held or where animals are slaughtered, or where poultry, game, fish or oysters are dressed, scaled or prepared to be disposed of for human food; and, likewise, they may enter any house, store, market, stall, railroad car, wagon or other vehicle where meat, sausage, poultry, game, fish or oysters are prepared, packed, stored, transported, held or kept for sale for human food; and, likewise, they may also enter any factory or place where dead animals are skinned or rendered, or where the offal from slaughter houses or meat stores, such as fat, head, feet or guts, are steamed, tanked or otherwise disposed of.

(C.O. 603-1; reordained as C.M.C. 603-1, eff. Jan. 1, 1972)

Cross reference

Penalty, § 603-99.