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least 30 minutes, or to at least 1600 F., and holding at such temperature for at
<br />least 15 seconds in approved and properly operated equipment: Provided, That nothing
<br />contained in this definition shall be construed as disbarring any other process which
<br />has been demonstrated to be equally efficient and is approved by the State health
<br />authority.
<br />M. Adulterated milk and milk products. - Any milk or milk product which contains
<br />any unv:holesome substance, or which if defined in this chapter does not conform with
<br />its definition, or which carries a grade label unless such grade label has been awarded
<br />by the health of -'icer and not revoked, shall be deemed adulterated and misbranded.
<br />N. Milk producer. - A milk producer is any person who owns or controls one or more
<br />cows a part or all milk or milk products from which is sold or offered for sale.
<br />0. Milk distributor. - A milk distributor is any person who offers for sale or
<br />sells to another any milk or milk products for human consumption as such.
<br />P. Dairy or dairy farm. - A dairy or dairy farm is any place or premises where one
<br />or more cows are kept, a part or all of the milk or milk Products from which is sold or
<br />offered for sale.
<br />q. Milk plant. -- A milk plant is any place or premises or establishment where
<br />milk or milk products are collected, handled, processed, stored,bottled, pasteurized,
<br />or prepared for distribution.
<br />R. Health officer. - The term "health officer" shall mean the health authority
<br />of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, or his authorized representative.
<br />S. Average bacterial plate count, direct microscopic count, reduction time, and
<br />cooling temperature. - Average bacterial plate count and averace direct microscopic
<br />count shall be taken to mean the logarithmic average, and average reduction time and
<br />average cooling temperature shall be taken to mean the arithmetic average, of the
<br />respective results of the last four consecutive samples taken upon separate days,
<br />irrespective of the date of grading or regrading.
<br />T. Grading period. - The grading period shall be such period of time as the
<br />health officer may designate within which grades shall be determined for all milk and
<br />milk products, provided that the grading period shall in no case exceed 6 months.
<br />U. Person. - The work "person" as used in this chapter, shall mean "person, firm,
<br />or corporation, or association".
<br />V. And/or. - Where the term "and/or" is used "andtt shall apply where possible,
<br />otherwise "or" shall apply.
<br />Section 2. The sale of adulterated, misbranded, or ungraded milk or milk
<br />products prohibited. - No personal shall within the City of Charlottesville or its police
<br />jurisdiction, produce, sell, offer, or expose for sale, or have in possession with intent
<br />to sell, any milk or milk product which is adulterated, misbranded, or ungraded. It
<br />shall be unlawful for any person, elsewhere than in a private home, to have in possesion
<br />any adulterated, misbranded, or ungraded milk or milk product.
<br />Section 3. Permits. - It shall be unlawful for any person to bring into or receive
<br />into the City of Charlottesville or its police jurisdiction, for sale, or to sell, offer
<br />for sale therein, or to have in storage where milk or :Wilk products are sold or served,
<br />any milk or milk product defined in this chapter, who does not possess a permit from
<br />the health officer of the City of Charlottesville.
<br />Only a person who complies with the requirements of this ordinance shall be en-
<br />titled to receive and retain such a permit.
<br />Such a permit may be suspended by the healtri officer, or revoked after an opportunity
<br />for a hearing by the health officer, upon the violation by the holder of any of the terms
<br />of this ordinance.
<br />Section J+. Labeling and placarding. - All bottles, cans, packages, and other
<br />containers enclosing milk or any milk product defined in this chapter shall be plainly
<br />labeled or marked with (1) the name of the contents as given in the definitions of this
<br />chapter; (2) the grade of the contents; (3) the word "pasteurized" only if the contents
<br />have been pasteurized; (J+) the work 'trawl' only if the contents are ?trawl'; (5) the phrase
<br />"for pasteurization" if the contents are to be pasteurized; (6) the name of the producer
<br />if the contents are raw, and the name of the plant at which the contents were pasteurized,
<br />if the contents are pasteurized; and (7) in the case of vitamin D milk, the designation
<br />"Vitamin D Uilktl and the source of the vitamin D. The label or mark shall be in letters
<br />of a size, kind, and color approved by the health officer and shall contain no marks or
<br />words which are misleading.
<br />Every restaurant, cafe, soda fountain, or other establishment serving milk or milk
<br />products shall display at all times, in a place designated by the health officer, a
<br />notice approved by the health officer, stating the lowest grade of milk and/or milk
<br />products served.
<br />Section 5. Inspection of dairy farms and milk plants for the purpose of grading
<br />or regrading. - At least once during each grading period the health officer shall inspect
<br />all dairy farms and all milk plants whose milk or milk products are intended for con-
<br />sumption within the City of Charlottesville, or its police jurisdiction. In case the
<br />health officer discovers the violation of any item of sanitation, he shall make a second
<br />inspection after a lapse of such time as he deems necessary for the defect to be remedied,
<br />but not before the lapse of 3 days; and the second inspection shall be used in determining
<br />the grade of milk and/or milk products. Any violation of the same item of this chapter
<br />on two consecutive inspections shall call for immediate degrading.
<br />One copy of the inspection report shall be posed by the health officer in a
<br />conspicuous place upon an inside wall of one of the dairy farm or milk plant buildings,
<br />and said inspection report shall not be defaced or removed by any person except the health
<br />officer. Another copy of the inspection report shall be filed with the records of the
<br />health department.
<br />Section 6. The examination of milk and milk products. - During each grading period
<br />at least four samples of milk and cream from each dairy farm and each milk plant shall
<br />be taken on separate days snd examined by the health officer. Samples of other milk
<br />products may be taken and examined by the health officer as often as he deems necessary.
<br />Samples of milk and milk products from stores, cafes, soda fountains, restaurants, and
<br />other places where milk or milk products are sold shall be examined as often as the
<br />health officer may require. Bacterial plate counts and direct microscopic counts shall
<br />be made in conformity with the latest standard methods recommended by the American Public
<br />Health Association. Examinations may include such other chemical and physical determina-
<br />tions as the health officer may deem necessary for the detection of adulteration, these
<br />examinations to be made in accordance with the latest standard methods of the American
<br />Public Health Association and the Association of Official hgricultural Chemists.
<br />Samples may be taken by the health officer at any time prior to the final delivery of
<br />the milk or milk products. All proprietors of stores, cafes, restaurants, soda fountains,
<br />and other similar places shall furnish the health officer, upon his request, with the
<br />names of all distributors from whom their milk and milk products are obtained. Bio -assays
<br />of the vitamin D content of vitamin L milk shall be made when required by the health officer
<br />in a labotatory approved by him for such examinations.
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