HomeMy WebLinkAbout02671 ORD - 12/27/1949AN ORDINANCE
AMODING ORDIMANCE UUMER 1491 ADOPTED THE
1ST DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 19U2, ENTITLED "DE-
FINING UELK' AND CERTAIN 'MILK PRODUCTS',
'ICU PRODUCERI, 'PASTEURI.ZATION', ETC.,.
PP.CHIBITING T= SALE OF AlULTERATED AND IXIS-
BRANDED DULK AND MILK PRODUCTS, RE UIRIUG
PFTiI.IITS FOR TIM, SALE OF MILK AND IT U PRO -
DUCTS, REGULA.TIITG T= ?INSPECTION OF DAIRY
FARMS AND MILK.PWTS, THE EXAMMATION, GPAD-
ING,_LABELING. PI.SOARDIING. PASTEHRIZATION, _
RE-GRADING. DISTRIBUTION, AND WE OF MILK
AND li:ILK PRODUCTS, PROPID1KG FOR TIM F7BLIS11MG
OF MIX GRUBS, COUSTRUCTION OF 7UTURE DA=S
AND I= PLAJITS, THE REPEALING OF ALL ORDIN-
ANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES Il: CONFLICT HERE -
I4ITH, THE F;UG'CRGMs TT OF ^_IIIS ORDRSANCE AIM
THE FII'.11I7 OF PENALTIES; AL`D DECLARIUG AN EV-
ERGENCY" BY ADOPTM A PROVISION IN COPiFORhI] Y
WITH TBE STATE GRADING AND LABELING ACT; RAID.
DECLARING AN MMG$NCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY TM CITY COUNCIL OF TII; CITY OF CORPUS CIMISTI, TETJLS:
SECTION 1. That Item Ir. of Section 7 of Ordinance No. 1491
adopted the 1st day of September, 19112 and entitled "Defining +ISilk, and
Certgin 'lull Products,i lla.lk Producers, : Pasteurizationt, etc., Prohibit-
ing the sale of adulterated and mis- branded milk and milk products, requiring
permits for the sale of milk and milk products, regulating the inspection of
dairy farms and milk plants, the examination, grading, labeling, placording,
pasteurization, re- grading, distribution, and sale of milk and milk products,
providing for the publishing of milk grades, construction of future dairies
and milk plants, the repealing of all ordinances or parts of ordinances in
conflict herewith, the enforcement of this ordinance and the fixing of penal-
ties; and Declaring an Emergency" be amended so as to hereafter read as
follows:
"Item Ir. COIS, TUBERCULOSIS, BANGS AM OTBER
DISEASES. A tuberculin test . of all herds and addi-
tions thereto shall be made before any milk there-
from is sold, and at least every 12 months thereafter,
by a licensed veterinarian approved by the State Live -
Stook Sanitary Commission; PROVIDED, That is modified
accredited counties in which modified accredited
area plan is applied to the dairy herds,,the modified
accredited area system approved by the United States
Bureau of Animal Industry shall be accepted in lieu of
annual testing. Said test shall be made and reactors
disposed of in accordance with the requirements approved
by the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau
of Animal Industry, for accredited herds, Additions to all
existing herds shall be tested for Bangs Disease as shown
by blood serum tests for agglutinins against Brucella
Abortus made in a laboratory approved by the health officer.
The calfhood vacinnation plan approved by the United States
Department of Agriculture, Bureau of ..Animal Industry
and the Texas Livestock Sanitary Commission shall be per-
-, Vh
mitted. Inoculation of producing animals shall not
be permitted, All dairies not supplying milk or
milk products to the City of Corpus Christi on the
effective date of this ordinance, and who shall
apply for a permit after this ordinance becomes
effective shall meet the above requirements regard-
ing Bangs and Tuberculosis testing but must be free
of both diseases before a permit is issued. No
animals which react to either disease shall be added
to any herd. True copies of the results of these
tests, both 12 month test and all subsequent tests
when reactors are found, signed by a veterinerain
and laboratory technician and :_identifying each
animal by number, shall be sulmitted 'to the Health
Officer for his.records......."
SECTION 2. The importance of conformity to state regulations
regarding testing requirements for dairy herds creates a ,public emergency and
imperative public necessity raquiring ".the -- suspension of the Charter rule pro-
viding that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it
is introduced and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three
meetings of the City Council, andthe iiayor having declared that such public
emergency and imperative necessity exists, and requests that said Charter
rule be suspended, and that this Ordinance take effect and be in force and
effect from and after its massage, and it is accordingly so ordained.
PASSED AND A PF HD Rov This the,f v`%day of Deoember, A. D. 1949.
sST: TWOR of the City of Corpus Christi
Ci Secre�ary
Aer3 ' AS T➢ EGAL FCQiLS:
ity Attox
Corpus Christi, Texas
-7 7 , 1949
TO iHB XWERS OF TO CITY COIIHCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore-
going ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for
the Suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or
resolution shall be passed filially on tie date it is introduced, and
that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the
City Counoilp I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter
rule or requirement and pass this ordinance filially on the date it is
Introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. -
Respectfully,
-t 11�1� 4:1� I---
I MAXQX
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the fbllosing vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DsForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney S. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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