§ 603-13. Live Animals, Examination.  


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  • A careful examination shall be made by the health commissioner or authorized assistant at all public stockyards in this city of any live cattle, swine, sheep, goat or calf when requested to do so by a purchaser of any such animal intended for slaughter under the post-mortem inspection of the board of health.

    No person shall sell any such animal judged as diseased or otherwise unfit for human food, or suspected of being diseased or of being otherwise unfit for human food, to any butcher or other person slaughtering livestock under the post-mortem inspection of the board of health, provided that such an animal may be sold subject to post-mortem inspection and may be removed to any slaughter house where a post-mortem inspection is conducted by the board of health when properly tagged for identification.

(C.O. 603-21; renumbered to C.M.C. 603-13, eff. Jan. 1, 1972)

Cross reference

Penalty, § 603-99.