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ployed, or coming in contact with any milk or its products in any creamery, or factory of any dairy products, shall be unclean and not washed from time to time.

§ 4. No person or persons, firms or corporations, by themselves or their agents or employees, shall sell, expose for sale, or exchange, present or deliver to any creamery, cheese factory, milk condensing factory, ice cream producer, or any other buyer, or consumer, any milk, or any product manufactured or prepared therefrom, to which any compound containing salicylic acid, formaldehyde, coloring matter or any other chemical or preparation other than common salt, or sodium chloride, shall have been added with intent to prevent fermentation, or to change the color (in case of milk and cream); provided, that such person or persons, firms or corporations or their agents or employees may use preparations of boron to prevent fermentation in milk or its products, but whenever any preparation of boron is used for such purpose, each and every package or container of milk or its products shall have plainly marked thereon, the fact that it contains such preparation of boron.

Neither shall any gelatine, or other substance, be added to milk or cream with intent to increase its viscosity or otherwise cause it to appear better in quality than it is, except each and every package and container of such milk or cream shall have marked thereon in a manner, or be accompanied by a statement, to be prescribed by the state dairy bureau, showing the nature of the substance added; provided, that this section shall not be construed to prevent the use of harmless coloring matter in butter, ice-cream or confectionery into which milk or its products enter.

§ 5. No person or persons, firms or corporations, by themselves or their agents or employees, shall manufacture for sale, offer for sale, expose for sale, or have in his or their possession for sale, any package of butter upon which, or upon the wrapper or container of which, there shall be printed, or otherwise marked, the word pasteurize or any of its derivatives unless in the process of the manufacture of the butter contained therein either the milk or cream from which the same was made shall have been exposed to a temperature exceeding one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit.

§6. In case any butter is sold or offered for sale in a package or wrapper purporting to designate the producer of such butter, such producer must be correctly designated; and if under a label purporting or calculated to designate the place of production, specifying county and state, must be correctly designated. No person, firm or corporation shall put up in package or wrapper or otherwise prepare for shipment or sale any butter under label purporting to designate the producer or place of production, except in accordance with the provisions herein; nor shall any person sell or offer for sale any butter in a package or wrapper purporting to designate the name of the producer or the place of production except in accordance with the provisions herein.

§7. It shall be the duty of the state dairy bureau, now existing under the laws of this state, to carry out and enforce the provisions of this act, and it is authorized and directed under this act out of the money appropriated as provided herein, to employ such assistant agents as inspectors as it may deem necessary and to fix their compensation not to exceed $4 per day, exclusive of their necessary and actual expenses, such expenses to be itemized and rendered under oath, or $100 per month exclusive of their necessary and actual expenses. Such agents shall have had experience in the manufacture of dairy products and the handling of dairy cattle. In carrying out the provisions of this act the secretary and agent of the state dairy bureau shall receive, in addition to the salary now received under the provisions of the act creating said state dairy bureau, such additional compensation as the dairy bureau may see fit, but not to exceed $100 per month to be drawn from the amount appropriated herein. The state dairy bureau through its agent and secretary, and assistant agents shall inspect the dairies, dairy cattle, creameries and other factories of dairy products, markets, and other places where dairy products are prepared or handled, and keep a careful record of such inspection and report the same to the state dairy bureau, and upon evidence obtained that any of the provisions of this act are being violated, the state dairy bureau, through its agent and secretary, or its assistant agents, shall duly enter complaint against the party or parties, responsible for such violations and cause the same to be prosecuted, except in cases where any dairy, creamery or other factory of milk products or store or depot where milk and its products are handled and sold, is found to be in an unsanitary condition, in which case the agent and secretary, or the assistant agent, for the district in which the violation occurred, shall serve upon the owner, or owners, or person in charge of the dairy, creamery or other factory of milk products so found to be in an unsanitary condition, a written notice specifying in detail such changes that are to be made that will place such dairy, creamery, or other factory of milk products or store or depot in a sanitary condition as defined in this act. Should such changes not have been made at the expiration of thirty days after the date when the notice was served, the state dairy bureau, through its agent and secretary, or its assistant agents, shall enter complaint against the person or persons responsible for such unsanitary conditions and cause them to be prosecuted for violating this act.

§ 8. The state dairy bureau is authorized under this act to gather and compile statistics relative to the dairy industry and to disseminate the same and other information useful to, and to the general good and development of the dairy industry of the state.

§ 9. Whenever any agent or inspector of the state dairy bureau shall discover the existence of any contagious or infectious disease among dairy cattle, or have good reason to believe that such disease may ex ist the same shall be immediately reported to the state veterinarian.

§ 10. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than ten days nor more than one hundred days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any person or persons who shall hinder or prevent an agent or inspector of the state dairy bureau, in the performance of his duty under this act, shall likewise be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined as already provided in this act. One-half of all fines imposed for the violation of this act shall be paid to the state dairy bureau which shall pay the same to the state treasurer and the same shall become a part of the appropriation under this act. The remaining one-half of such fines shall be paid to the county in which the fine is imposed.

§11. It shall be the duty of the district attorney, upon application of the state dairy bureau, through its agent and secretary, or assistant agents to attend to the prosecution, in the name of the people, of any suit brought for the violation of any of the provisions of this act within his district.

§ 12. There is hereby appropriated for the use of the state dairy bureau in enforcing and carrying out the provisions of this act, out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) for the remainder of the fifty-sixth fiscal year; five thousand dollars, ($5,000) for the fifty-seventh fiscal year and five thousand dollars ($5000) for the fifty-eighth fiscal year. All salaries, fees, costs and expenses shall be drawn from the money so appropriated, and the state controller shall draw his warrant on the state treasury in favor of the person or persons entitled to the

same.

§13. An act approved March 22, 1899, entitled "An act to provide for the inspection of dairies, factories of dairy products, and of dairy products as to their sanitary condition, and as to the health of stock; to prevent the sale of milk and products of milk drawn from diseased animals; to prevent the spread of infectious and contagious diseases common to stock, and to appropriate money therefor," and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. §14. This act shall take effect thirty days after its passage.

ACT 877.

To provide for the inspection of dairies, factories of dairy products, and of dairy products as to their sanitary condition and as to the health of stock; to prevent the sale of milk and the products of milk drawn from diseased animals; to prevent the spread of infectious and contagious diseases common to stock. [Stats. 1899, p. 171.] Repealed 1905, p. 467. See ante, Act 876.

АСТ 882.

TITLE 127.
DAVISVILLE.

To prevent hogs and goats running at large in. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 82.} See § 9, Stats. 1897, p. 198; Stats. 1901, p. 603, §§ 9, 10.

TITLE 128.

DEADLY WEAPONS.

АСТ 887.

To prevent the improper and criminal use of deadly weapons. [Stats. 1855, p. 268.]

Superseded by Penal Code, § 417.

АСТ 888.

An act providing for the registration of the purchasers of pistols; and providing for the punishment of dealers neglecting to register such purchasers. [Approved March 6, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 163.]

АСТ 892.

ACT 893.

TITLE 129.

DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND ASYLUM.

Powers of directors. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 686.]

Supply of water for and for university. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 816.] Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum: See Political Code, §§ 2237-2282.

АСТ 897.

TITLE 130.
DEATHS.

An act for the registration of deaths, the issuance and registration of burial and disinterment permits and the establishment of registration districts in counties, cities and counties, cities and incorporated towns, under the superintendence of the state bureau of vital statistics and prescribing the powers and duties of registrars, coroners, physicians, undertakers, sextons and other persons in relation to such registration and fixing penalties for the violation of this act.

[Approved March 18, 1905. Stats. 1905, p. 115.] Amended 1907, p. 296.

§ 1. That department of the state board of health known as the state bureau of vital statistics shall provide for and superintend the complete and proper registration of deaths for legal, sanitary and statistical purposes.

§ 2. That for the purposes of this act the state shall be divided into registration districts as follows: Each city and county, city and incor

porated town, and each county exclusive of the portion included within eities and incorporated towns, shall constitute a primary registration district.

§ 3. That the recorder of each county and city and county, and the clerk of each city or incorporated town, shall be the local registrar in and for such primary registration district and shall perform all such duties of local registrar as hereinafter provided; provided however, that in cities having a freeholders' charter the health officer shall act as local registrar and perform all the duties thereof. Each local registrar shall immediately appoint in writing, a deputy who shall be authorized to act in his stead in case of absence, death, illness or disability, and when it may appear necessary for the convenience of the people in any registration district, the local registrar is hereby authorized with the approval of the state registrar of vital statistics to appoint one or more proper and competent persons to act as subregistrars, who shall be authorized to receive certificates of death and to issue burial permits or removal permits in and for such portions of the registration district as may be designated. Each subregistrar shall note in legible writing over his signature, the date each certificate of death was filed, and shall forthwith forward the ccrtificate to the local registrar of the registration district, and in all cases before the fifth day of the following month; provided, that all subregistrars shall be subject to the supervision and control of the state registrar of vital statistics. [Amendment approved March 15, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 297.]

§4. That the body or remains of no person whose death occurs in the state shall be interred, deposited in a vault, grave or tomb, cre mated, disinterred or otherwise disposed of, or removed from or into any registration district until a permit for burial, disinterment or removal shall have been properly issued by the registrar of the registra tion district in which the death occurs, except in the case where there are two or more registration districts within the same county, or where there are two contiguous registration districts not in the same county, a body may be removed from the registration district where the death occurred to another registration district within the same county, or contiguous registration districts in different counties, for the pur pose of preparing said body for burial or shipment, provided that be. fore such burial or shipment the undertaker, sexton or other person in charge shall have first secured a permit for the interment or removal of said body from the registrar of the registration district where the death occurred. And no such burial or removal permit shall be issued by any registrar until a complete and satisfactory certificate and return of the death has been filed with him, as hereinafter required; provided that in case of any death outside of the state, where the body is accompanied by a removal or transit permit issued in accordance with the law and the health regulations in force where the death occurred, such removal or transit permit shall be accepted as of the same authority as a permit from the local registrar when such removal or transit permit shall have indorsed thereon the written approval of the state

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