274. Storing Food Articles. SEC. 6. No article of food intended for human consumption shall be placed, knowingly, received or kept in any cold storage warehouse, if diseased, tainted, otherwise unfit for human consumption, or in such condition that it will not keep wholesome for human consumption. No article of food, for use other than for human consumption, shall be placed, received or kept in any cold storage warehouse unless previously marked, in accordance with forms to be prescribed by the Department of Agriculture, in such a way as to indicate plainly the fact that such article of food is not to be sold or used for human food. 275. Labeling Food Articles, Evidence. SEC. 7. No person, firm or corporation shall place, receive or keep in any cold storage warehouse in this State articles of food unless the same shall be plainly marked, stamped or tagged, either upon the container in which they are packed, or upon the article of food itself, with the date when placed therein; and no person, firm or corporation shall remove, or allow to be removed, such article of food from any cold storage warehouse unless the same shall be plainly marked, stamped or tagged, either on the container in which it is enclosed or upon the article of food itself, with the date of such removal, and such marks, stamps and tags shall be prima facie eridence of such receipt and removal and of the dates thereof. All articles of food in any cold storage warehouse at the time this Act goes into effect shall, before being removed therefrom, be plainly marked, stamped or tagged with the date when this Act goes into effect and the date of removal therefrom. 276. Storing Food Articles. Duration. Removal. SEC. 8. No person, frm or corporation shall hereafter keep or permit to remain in any cold storage warehouse any article of food which has been held in cold storage either within or without the State, for a longer aggre gate period than twelve months, except with the approval of the Director of the Department of Agriculture as hereinafter provided The Director of the Department of Agriculture may, from time to time, upon application in writing, extend the period of storage beyond twelve months for any par ticular article of food, provided the same is found upon examination by the Department of Agriculture to be in wholesome condition for further gold storage. The length of time for which s ib further storage is allowed shall be specified in the order granting the extension A report on each case in which such extension of storage may be permitted including information relating to the reason for the action of the said director the kinds and amounts of the articles of foud for which the storage period was extended. and length of time for which this extension was granted shall be fled, spez to public inspection, in the office of said director The Director of Agriculture shall have power to order any article of food held in cold storage to be removed therefrom before the expiration the first period of twelve months or before the exp.ra on of any period of extension granted by him for any of the following reasons (1) That the storage of the art. of food beyond the time fred by the Director of the Department of Agrit competition in this State on the Before such article of food shall be bus order of removal will render such article of food bas for the purpose or with of food as for the purpose いいい de to create a minipily tends to restrail or prevent rdered remored from storage the Director of Agriculture -ball give at least £re days potice 20 writing of his intention to make such order ard -ba. armond the person frm or corporetion receiving such notice a full bearing thereon justice of the peace or any other court of competent jurisdiction in the county where the offense shall have been committed, at the instance of the State food commissioner, or any other person in the name of the people of the State of Illinois as plaintiff and shall be recovered in an action of debt. 217. Judgment, Capias, Repeal. SEC. 42. When the rendition of the judgment imposes a fine as provided in any of the sections of this Act, it shall be the duty of the justice of the peace or other court rendering such judgment also to render a judgment for costs and such justice of the peace or other court shall forthwith issue a capias or warrant of commitment against the body of the defendant, commanding that unless the said fine and costs be forthwith paid the defendant shall be committed to the jail of the county and the constable or other officer, to whose hands said capias or warrant shall come, shall in default of such payment, arrest the defendant and commit him to the jail of the county, thereto remain as provided in section 171 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," in force July 1, 1885, unless such fines and costs shall sooner be paid. SEC. 43. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed: Provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed as repealing the act entitled, "An Act to regulate the manufacture and sale of substitutes for butter," approved June 14, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, or any part thereof. AN ACT to prevent the preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, or distributing of food intended for sale, or sale of food, under unsanitary, unhealthful or unclean conditions or surroundings, to create a sanitary inspection, to declare that such conditions shall constitute a nuisance, and, to provide for the enforcement thereof. Approved June 5, 1911, in force July 1, 1911. L. 1911, p. 528. 218. Manufacturing Establishments, Lighting, Draining and Ventilating. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That every building, room, basement, enclosure or premises, occupied, used or maintained as a bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing house, slaughter house, creamery, cheese factory, restaurant, hotel, grocery, meat market, or as a factory, shop, warehouse, any public or place or manufacturing establishment used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of any food as defined by statute, which is intended for sale, shall be properly and adequately lighted, drained, plumbed and ventilated, and shall be conducted with strict regard to the influence of such conditions upon the health of the operatives, employees, clerks, or other persons therein employed, and the purity and wholesomeness of the food therein produced, prepared, manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed. 219. Unsanitary Condition Defined. SEC. 2. The floors, side walls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, implements and machinery of every such establishment or place where such food intended for sale is produced, prepared, manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed, and all cars, trucks, and vehicles used in the transportation of such food products, shall at no time be kept or permitted to remain in an unclean, unhealthful or unsanitary condition; and for the purpose of this Act, unclean, unhealthful and unsanitary conditions shall be deemed to exist if food in the process of production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, sale, distribution or transportation is not securely protected from flies, dust, dirt, and as far as may be necessary, by all reasonable means, from all other foreign or injurious contamination; or if the refuse, dirt or waste products subject to decomposition and fermentation incident to the manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, selling, distributing, or transportation of such food are not removed daily, or if all trucks, trays, boxes, buckets or other receptacles, or the chutes, platforms, racks, tables, shelves, and knives, saws, cleavers or other utensils, or the machinery used in moving, handling, cutting, chopping, mixing, canning or other processes are not thoroughly cleaned daily; or if the clothing of operatives, employees, clerks or other persons therein employed, is unclean. 220. Sidewalls and Ceilings, Construction. SEC. 3. The sidewalls and ceilings of every bakery, confectionery, creamery, cheese factory, and hotel or restaurant kitchen shall be so constructed that they can easily be kept clean; and every building, room, basement, or inclosure occupied or used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of food shall have an impermeable floor made of cement or tile laid in cement, brick, wood or other suitable material which can be flushed and washed clean with water. 221. Doors and Screens. SEC. 4. All such factories, buildings, and other places containing food, shall be so provided with proper doors and screens adequate to prevent contamination of the product from flies. 222. Toilet Rooms. SEC. 5. Every such building, room, basement, inclosure, or premises occupied, used or maintained for the production, preparation, manufacture, canning, packing, storage, sale or distribution of such food, shall have adequate and convenient toilet rooms, lavatory or lavatories. The toilet rooms shall be separate and apart from the room or rooms where the process of production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, canning, selling and distributing is conducted. The floors of such toilet rooms shall be of cement, tile, wood, brick or other nonabsorbent material, and shall be washed and scoured daily. Such toilet or toilets shall be furnished with separate ventilating flues and pipes discharging into soil pipes or shall be on the outside of and well removed from the building. Lavatories and wash rooms shall be adjacent to toilet rooms, or when the toilet is outside of the building, the wash room shall be near the exit to the toilet and shall be supplied with soap, running water and towels and shall be maintained in a sanitary condition. 223. Nuisance Defined. SEC. 6. If any such building, room, basement, inclosure or premises Occupied, used or maintained for the purposes of the aforesaid, or if the floors, sidewalks, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, implements, appliances or machinery of any such establishment, shall be constructed, kept, maintained, or permitted to remain in a condition contrary to any of the requirements or provisions of the preceding five (5) sections of this act, the same is hereby declared a nuisance, and any toilet, toilet room, lavatory or wash room as aforesaid, which shall be constructed, kept, maintained or permitted to remain in a condition contrary to the requirements or provisions of section five (5) of this Act, is hereby declared a nuisance; and any car, truck, or vehicle used in the moving or transportation of any food product as aforesaid, which shall be kept or permitted to remain in an unclean, unhealthful or unsanitary condition is hereby declared a nuisance. Whoever unlawfully maintains, or allows or permits to exist a nuisance as herein defined shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished as herein provided. 224. Cuspidors. SEC. 7. Every person, firm, or corporation operating or maintaining an establishment or place where food is produced, prepared, manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed shall provide the necessary cuspidors for the use of the operatives, employees, clerks, and other persons, and each cuspidor shall be thoroughly emptied and washed out daily with water or a disinfectant solution, and five ounces thereof shall be left in each cuspidor while it is in use. Whoever fails to observe the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished as hereinafter provided. 225. Expectorating, Penalty. SEC. 8. No operative, employee, or other persons shall expectorate on the food or on the utensils or on the floors or sidewalls of any building, room, basement, or cellar, where the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing or sale of any such food is conducted. Operatives, employees, clerks, and all other persons who handle the material from which such food is prepared or the finished product, before beginning work, or after visiting toilet or toilets, shall wash their hands thoroughly in clean water. Whoever fails to observe or violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars. 226. Sleeping in Work Room. SEC. 9. It shall be unlawful for any person to sleep, or to allow or permit any person to sleep in any work room of a bake shop, kitchen, dining room, confectionery, creamery, cheese factory, or any place where food is prepared for sale, served or sold, unless all foods therein handled are at all times in hermetically sealed packages. 227. Contagious Diseases. SEC. 10. It shall be unlawful for an employer to require, suffer or permit any person who is affected with any contagious or venereal disease to work, or for any person so affected to work, in a building, room, basement, inclosure, premises or vehicle occupied or used for the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution, or transportation of food. 228. Inspection, Reports, Prosecutions. SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the State Food Commissioner and those appointed by him to enforce this Act, and for that purpose the State Food Commissioner and his appointees shall have full power at all times to enter every such building, room, basement, inclosure or premises occupied or used or suspected of being occupied or used for the production, preparation or manufacture for sale, or the storage, sale, distribution or transportation of such food, to inspect the premises and all utensils, fixtures, furniture and machinery used as aforesaid; and if upon inspection any such food producing or distributing establishment, conveyance, or any employer, employee, clerk, driver or other person is found to be violating any of the provisions of this Act, or if the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution or transportation of such food is being conducted in a manner detrimental to the health of the employees and operatives, or to the character or quality of the food therein being produced, manufactured, packed, stored, sold, distributed or conveyed, the officer or inspector making the inspection or examination shall report such conditions and violations to the State Food Commissioner. The State Food Commissioner or the assistant commissioner shall thereupon issue a written order to the person, firm or corporation responsible for the violation or condition aforesaid to abate such condition or violation or to make such changes or improvements as may be necessary to abate them, within such reasonable time as may be required in which to abate them. Notice of such order may be served by delivering a copy thereof to said person, firm or corporation, or by sending a copy thereof by registered mail, and the receipt thereof through the post office shall be prima facie evidence that notice of said order has been received. Such person, firm or corporation shall have the right to appear in person or by attorney before the State Food Commissioner, or the person appointed by him for such purpose, within the time limited in the order, and shall be given an opportunity to be heard and to show why such order or instructions should not be obeyed. Such hearing shall be under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State Food Commissioner. If after such hearing it shall appear that the provisions or requirements of this Act have not been violated, said order shall be rescinded. If it shall appear that the requirements or provisions of this Act are being violated, and that the person, firm or corporation notified as aforesaid is responsible therefor, said previous order shall be confirmed or amended, as the facts shall warrant, and shall thereupon be final, but such additional time as is necessary may be granted within which to comply with said final order. If such person, firm or corporation is not present or represented when such final order is made, notice thereof shall be given as above provided. On failure of the party or parties to comply with the first order of the State Food Commissioner within the time prescribed, when no hearing is demanded, or upon failure to comply with the final order, within the time specified, the State Food Commissioner shall certify the facts to the State's attorney of the county in which such violation occurred, and such State's attorney shall proceed against the party or parties for the fines and penalties provided by this Act, and also for the abatement of the nuisance: Provided, that the proceedings herein prescribed for the abatement of nuisances as defined in this Act shall not in any manner relieve the violator from prosecution in the first instance for every such violation, nor from the penalties for such violation prescribed by section 13 of this Act. 229. Fines, Payment. SEC. 12. All fines collected under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which the prosecution is brought, and it shall be the duty of the State's attorneys in the respective counties to prosecute all persons violating or refusing to obey the provisions of this Act. 230. Penalty. SEC. 13. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Act, or who refuses to comply with any lawful order or requirement of the State Food Commissioner, duly made in writing as provided in section 11 of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), and for the second and subsequent offenses by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court; and each day after the expiration of the time limit for abating unsanitary conditions and completing improvements to abate such conditions, as ordered by the State Food Commissioner, as aforesaid, shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. AN ACT to protect the public and the manufacturers of dairy products from frauds and imitations and to prevent the public from being deceived in the use of adulterated foods by providing for marking, stamping and branding of cans or other containers for the handling and transportation of dairy products; for the registration of such mark or brand and prohibiting the use of such marked can, bottle or other container for any other than the designated purpose; and for preventing the use of any such brand or mark of another; and from defacing or removing the same; and providing penalties for violation thereof; and making it the duty of the Food and Dairy Commissioner to enforce the law.22 Approved June 25, 1917, in force July 1, 1917. L. 1917, p. 773. 231. Dairy Containers, Brand, Adoption. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in order to protect the public against frauds and imitations in the sale of dairy products, and prevent the public from being deceived in the purchase and use of adulterated foods and to protect the manufacturers from being wrongfully charged with the manufacture, storage, transportation or sale of impure or adulterated foods, any person, firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture or transportation of any dairy products, including milk, cream and ice cream may adopt a suitable mark, stamp or brand for use upon any can, bottle or other container used in the handling and transporting any of said products and may file in the office of the Secretary of State a description of such mark, stamp or brand so desired to be used. 22 The four acts following were taken from Laws compiled for the Department of Agriculture. |