§ 603-17. Importing or Buying Unfit Animals.  


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  • No proprietor or agent of any packing house or slaughter house, nor any butcher in this city, shall bring into this city or buy or offer to buy or accept in this city any cattle, calf, hog, sheep or lamb that is diseased, injured, crippled, immature, under weight, badly emaciated, or that for any other obvious reason might be unfit for human food, without first reporting all known facts relating to such animal or animals to the chief food inspector and receiving written permission from the board of health to do so.

(C.O. 603-23; renumbered to C.M.C. 603-17, eff. Jan. 1, 1972)

Cross reference

Penalty, § 603-99.