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<br />ORDINANCE NO 4096
<br />AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE
<br />THE PRODUCTION, TRANSPORTATION, PROCESSING,
<br />HANDLING, SAMPLING, EXAMINATION, GRADING, LABELING,
<br />REGRADING, AND SALE OF MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS= THE
<br />INSPECTION OF DAIRY HERDS, DAIRIES,, AND MILK PLANTS;
<br />THE ISSUING AND REVOCATION OF PERMITS. TO MILK PRO-
<br />DUCERS MILK HAULERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS; PERMIT FEES;
<br />APPOINTMENT OF INSPECTORS AND SANITARY POLICE; RE-
<br />PEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN
<br />CONFLICT HEREWITH AND FIXING PENALTIES,
<br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana:
<br />SECTION 1. SUPERVISION. The health officer having jurisdiction within the
<br />territorial limits of the City of South Bend, Indiana, or his authorized repre.
<br />sentative shall have supervision over the production, transportation, processing,
<br />handling, sampling, examination, grading, regrading, labeling, and sale of all
<br />milk and milk products sold at retail or wholesale within the City of South Bend,
<br />Indiana, or its police jurisdiction; the inspection of dairy herds, dairies, and
<br />milk plants; and the issuuig and revoreation of permits to milk producers, milk
<br />haulers, and distributors.
<br />SECTION 2. GRADE A MILK ORDINANCE. The health officer having juris-
<br />diction within the territorial limits of the City of South Bend, Indiana, in the
<br />performance of his duties under Section 1 of this ordinance, shall adopt as
<br />standards to be followed, the provision in paragraph HDP4H entitled "Grade A
<br />Milk and Milk Products" of regulations of the Indiana Stat6 Board of Health duly
<br />passed on September 13, 1945, and filed with the Secretary of State on October
<br />18, 1945 as amended by the State Board of Health on February 19, 1954, and
<br />filed with the Secretary of State on March 17, 1954, of the regulations of the
<br />State Board of Health entitled "Regulations Relating to Dairy Products Including
<br />Definitions and Standards of Identity." In addition to the requirements contained
<br />in the aforesaid regulations, all milk for pasteurization shall come from herds
<br />conforming to the following:
<br />A. Cows, Tuberculosis and Other Diseases. Except as provided
<br />hereinafter, a tuberculin test of all herds and additions thereto shall be made
<br />before any milk therefrom is sold, and at least once every twehve (12): months
<br />thereafter, by a licensed veterinarian approved by the State livestock sanitary
<br />authority. Said tests shall be made and. reactors disposed of in accordance with
<br />the requirements approved by the United States Department of Agriculture,
<br />Bureau of Animal Industry for accredited herds. A certificate signed by the
<br />veterinarian or attested to by the Health officer and filed with the health officer
<br />shall be evidence of the above test.
<br />Cows which show an extensive or entire induration of one or more
<br />quarters of the udder upon physical examination, whether secreting abnormal
<br />milk or not, shall be permanently excluded from the milking herd. Cows giving
<br />bloody, stringy, or otherwise abnormal milk, but with only slight induration of
<br />the udder, shall be excluded from the herd until reexamination shows that the
<br />milk has become normal.
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