Disposal of sound animals, carcasses, etc. establishments. When fective. Notice. unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, shall be rejected or condemned, and said animals, carcasses, or parts or products thereof, shall be treated and disposed of in such a way that they cannot be used as human food, as shall be provided by the rules of the State Livestock Sanitary Board. Section 7. It shall be the duty of the agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, as provided by this Examinations of act, to make examinations of slaughtering, packing, meat-canning, rendering, or similar establishments, and of places where meats or meat food products are manufactured, prepared, stored, or sold, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the said establishments or places are constructed, arranged, equipped, managed, or cared for in such a way as injuriously to affect the soundness, healthfulness, or wholesomeness, or otherwise to render unfit for human food, the meats or meat food products therein prepared, stored, or sold. In case the establishment, or the manner in which it is arranged, equipped, managed, or cared for, shall be found de- found to be defective in such particulars as to make it probable that, by virtue of such defect or defects, the meats or meat food products may be rendered unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, it shall be the duty of the agent of the State Livestock Sanitary Board to notify the owner, occupier, or manager thereof as to the nature of the particular defects found, and report the same to the State Livestock Sanitary Board. The said Board shall thereupon send to the owner, occupier, or manager of the defective establishment or place a notice, in writing, in which the defect or defects shall be described; and the owner, occupier, or manager shall thereupon, within reasonable time, remedy, remove, or abolish the said defects. In the case that a defect in respect to the construction, arrangement, equipment, management, or care of a slaughtering, packing, meat-canning, rendering, or similar establishment, or of a place where meat or meat food products are manufactured, prepared, stored, or sold, deemed by the State Livestock Sanitary Board to be of such a nature as to render it probable that the meat or meat food products therein prepared, stored, or sold may, by virtue of said defect, be rendered unsound, unhealthful, or unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, is not removed or abolished within reasonable time, to be designated by the State Livestock Sanitary Board, after notice from the said Board, the said establishment or place may be closed; and the owner, occupier, or manager thereof, and all other persons, are forbidden to use the said establishment or place for the preparation, storage, or sale of meats or meat food products until the said Removal of defect. If not removed. defect is remedied, removed, or abolished in a way that is approved by an authorized agent of the State Livestock Sanitary Board. Section S. All cities and boroughs, and all townships of the first class, are authorized and empowered to provide for the appointment of local meat-inspectors, Local meat-inas may be required, and to fix their compensation, which shall be paid from the funds of the city, borough, spectors. duties. or township of the first class. The qualifications of Qualifications. such local meat-inspectors shall be certified by the State Livestock Sanitary Board, and they shall have the same authority and duties as are, by this act, conferred Authority and on agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, and shall be subject to the same rules and regulations. Such certificates of qualification may be withdrawn or revoked at any time by the State Livestock Sanitary Board, for incompetency or neglect of duty. Local meat-inspectors shall have jurisdiction only within the Jurisdiction. limits of the city or borough, or township of the first class, by and for which they are appointed. Such local meat-inspectors shall not be governed by ordinances, rules, or regulations that are incompatible with, or that conflict with, provisions of this act, or with the rules or regulations for the guidance of its agents, approved and promulgated by the State Livestock Sanitary Board. marking. Section 9. The State Livestock Sanitary Board may, under such rules and regulations as it may adopt, not incompatible with the acts of Assembly or the Constitution of the Commonwealth, appoint local agents to Local agents. examine the animals, carcasses, meats, and meat food products, used, prepared, or stored in local slaughtering, packing, canning, rendering, or similar establishments, and to affix an approved stamp or mark to the Stamping or meats and meat food products that are found to be sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food. The meats and meat food products that are found to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise. unfit for human food, shall be rejected or condemned, and disposed of so that they cannot be used for human food, in the manner provided by the rules and regulations of the State Livestock Sanitary Board. Such agents shall report to, and they may be transferred or dismissed by, the State Livestock Sanitary Board. They shall be subject to the provisions of this act, and to the regulations governing and for the guidance of agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board. agents. The funds for the compensation of such local agents Compensation of as are provided for in this section of this act shall be furnished by the owner or manager of the establishment that such agent is appointed to oversee, and upon whose request this form of inspection is established. ment. The funds for the payment of such local agents shall Manner of paybe deposited by the owner or manager of such establish Proviso. Appointment, Employes of the United States Department of Agriculture. Use of Board's laboratory. Enforcement of act. Rules and regulations. Proviso. Exemption. Inspection, ment, to his own credit, in some bank or trust company to be designated by the State Livestock Sanitary Board; and shall be paid out upon the cheque of such owner or manager, payable to the order of the local agent entitled to compensation, after the bill of such local agent for services has been approved by authority of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, and the cheque, so drawn for said compensation, has been approved by authority of said Board: Provided, That such agents as are provided for by this section of this act shall be appointed only upon request of the persons or firms who agree to meet such expense. Employes of the United States Department of Agriculture, engaged in the inspection of animals, meats, and meat food products, may be appointed agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, and be clothed with the powers of such agents: Provided, however, That such employes of the United States Department of Agriculture shall receive no pay or compensation for such service as agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board. Section 10. The State Livestock Sanitary Board shall make arrangements for cooperation between the laboratory of the Board and those engaged in the examination and inspection of meat producing animals and meats, so that unusual or difficult diseases and conditions may be scientifically studied and accurately diagnosed for the benefit of the meat inspection service. Section 11. The State Livestock Sanitary Board may, from time to time, make such regulations for the enforcement of this act as may be necessary to carry its provisions into force and effect, and, so far as is compatible with the purposes of this act, the plans, regulations, and methods of the meat-inspection service of the United States Department of Agriculture shall constitute the standard to be adopted and followed. And the meat-inspection work of the United States Department of Agriculture shall not be repeated or duplicated by the agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, nor by local meat-inspectors: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to animals slaughtered by any farmer on the farm, and sold or transported to market as meat or meat food products; nor to retail butchers and retail dealers in meat or meat food products, supplying their customers. But this proviso shall not prevent agents of the State LiveStock Sanitary Board or local meat-inspectors from inspecting such premises, animals, meats, or meat food products, at any time. And if any such person shall sell, or offer for sale or transportation, any meat or meat food products which are diseased, unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, knowing that such meat food products are in tended for human consumption, or shall keep his estab lishment, salesplace, or vehicle in unsanitary condition, after official notice being served, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Misdemeanor. stamp, certificate, mark, etc. Section 12. No person shall make, duplicate, repro Counterfeit duce, forge, or counterfeit any stamp, certificate, mark, or emblem used or authorized to be used by the State Livestock Sanitary Board for marking or designating animals, carcasses, meats, or meat food products that have been approved or condemned; and no such stamp, certificate, mark, or emblem, used or authorized to be used by the State Livestock Sanitary Board, shall be used or employed without specific authority so to do from the State Livestock Sanitary Board. Dereliction of Section 13. Any agent of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, or any local meat-inspector appointed by authority of the said Board, or any local meat-inspector appointed by any city, borough, or township of the first class, who shall pass or approve any meat or meat food product that is unsound, unhealthful, unwhole- duty. some, or otherwise unfit for human food, or who shall fail to perform his duties as prescribed by this act, or who shall accept any money, gift or other thing of value from any person, firm, or corporation, or officers, agents or employes thereof, given with intent to influence his official action, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be summarily discharged from office, and shall be pun ished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Misdemeanor. Penalty. Bribery of agents or employes. Any person, firm, or corporation, or any agent or employe of any person, firm, or corporation, who shall give, pay, or offer, directly or indirectly, to any agent, officer, or inspector authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this act, or by the rules and regulations of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, any money or other thing of value, with intent to influence said agent, officer, or inspector in the discharge of any duty herein provided for, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, Penalty. or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Misdemeanor. etc.. of unsound meats or products. Misdemeanor. If any person shall sell or offer for sale, or offer offering for sale, for transportation to market, any meat or meat food product which is diseased, unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, knowing that such meat or meat food product is intended for human consumption, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Penalty. Violations of provisions of act. Penalty. Any person, firm, or corporation, or any officer or agent of such firm or corporation, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 14. All fines and penalties arising from violations of any of the provisions of this act shall be paid to the State Livestock Sanitary Board, and shall be immediately paid by said Board to the State Treas urer, for the use of the Commonwealth. APPROVED The 25th day of May, A. D. 1907. EDWIN S. STUART. Boroughs. Building of viaducts or bridges over and across railroads. Public highways. Proviso. No. 188. AN ACT Relating to the location, construction, and maintenance of viaducts and bridges in boroughs and adjacent territory; empowering the several boroughs of this Commonwealth to construct or have constructed bridges or viaducts over rivers, creeks, streams, railroads, and private land, or over and across railroads and any of them, or over and across railroads, for public highways, and to procure locations therefor by purchase or condemnation proceedings, whether the same be wholly within, or partly within and partly without. the borough limits; authorizing said boroughs to unite and enter into a contract or contracts with the county commissioners of the proper county, and with railroad, street railway and other companies and parties interested, or with any of them, for the erection, construction, and maintenance of said viaducts and bridges, and for the payment of the damage caused by their location and erection; and forbidding any railroad company to pass under or upon any such viaduct or bridge without contributing to the cost of maintenance thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the several boroughs of this Commonwealth are hereby authorized to locate and build viaducts or bridges, to be used as public highways, over railroads, rivers, creeks, streams, and private property, or over and across railroads and any of them, or over and across railroads, whether the said viaducts or bridges be wholly within, or partly without and partly within, the borough limits, for the purpose of uniting two or more different streets or highways, or separate portions of the same highway or extension thereof: Provided, That the said viaducts or bridges must, in all cases, cross the aforesaid railroads; and that, in all other cases, any viaduct or bridge shall be erected in the manner provided by existing laws for the erection of such viaducts or bridges in the several boroughs of this Commonwealth. Section 2. The said boroughs shall have the right |