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PARAGRAPH 10. Any person who knowingly subjects another person to contact and possibly infection with a venereal disease shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and any person having knowledge of such transfer of venereal disease shall report same to the local health authority or be guilty of a misdemeanor.

PARAGRAPH 11. Any physician who shall accept for treatment or diagnosis any person suffering from any venereal disease shall instruct said patient not to have intercourse until he (or she) is cured or is noninfectious. The physician shall also instruct said patient how to prevent contaminating or infecting persons in other ways than by sexual contact.

PARAGRAPH 12. Any person under quarantine for venereal disease who leaves the State and absents himself (or herself) from treatment without permission from the State board of health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable according to the penalties prescribed in paragraph 37, of public health act. to-wit paragraph 4403, Revised Statutes of Arizona, 1913.

PARAGRAPH 13. It is hereby declared that all houses of prostitution are sources of venereal infection, and such houses are hereby ordered closed forthwith. Any keeper of a hotel, rooming house, boarding house, amusement hall, park, apartment, or any other place, who shall knowingly harbor one or more prostitutes shall be guilty of violation of these rules and punishable according to the provisions of paragraph 37 of the public health act, Revised Statutes of Arizona, 1913, paragraph 4403.

PARAGRAPH 14. Any physician giving or selling a certificate or letter declaring any person free from venereal disease shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to the penalties prescribed in paragraph 37, public health act, Revised Statutes of Arizona, 1913, paragraph 4403.

PARAGRAPH 15. It is hereby ordered that all persons arrested for vagrancy, prostitution, disorderly conduct, or adultery shall submit to and be given an examination for venereal disease by the local health officer. Such examination shall be complete. If the person arrested be found infected he (or she) shall at once be put in quarantine, as hereinbefore provided.

PARAGRAPH 16. Any physician, health officer, or other person violating the provisions of these regulations, or refusing to obey the instructions herein contained, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to the penalty in section 37 of the public health act, to wit: Paragraph 4403, Revised Statutes of Arizona, 1913.

Smallpox-Compulsory Vaccination Prohibited-Unvaccinated Children Not Permitted to Attend School During Smallpox Epidemic-Compulsory Vaccination Law Repealed. (Act Adopted by Popular Vote Nov. 5, 1918; Effective Dec. 5, 1918.)

SECTION 1. No minor child shall be subjected to compulsory vaccination without the consent of the parent or guardian having the care, custody, or control of such minor: Provided, however, That no minor child shall be permitted to attend any public school in any school district in the State of Arizona during the period in which a smallpox epidemic may be prevalent in said school district unless said minor child shall have first been vaccinated.

SEC. 2. That paragraph 4396, chapter 1, title 41, of the Revised Statutes of Arizona, 1913, civil code, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

State Dairy Commissioner-Appointment, Powers, and Duties-Appointment and Duties of Special Dairy Inspectors-Definitions and Standards of Dairy Products-Licenses. (Ch. 8, Act June 20, 1918.)

SECTION 1. The office of State dairy commissioner is hereby created. As soon as this act becomes effective the governor shall appoint a State dairy commis

sioner, who shall hold office until February 1, 1919, or until his successor shall have been duty appointed and qualified. Following the first term, as hereinbefore provided, the term of office of said commissioner shall be two years. The salary of the said commissioner shall be $3,000 per annum, to be paid as the salaries of other State officers are paid. No one shall be eligible for appointment to said office unless he shall have a practical and technical knowledge of and experience in the production, manufacture, care and handling of dairy products. Before entering upon the duties of his office said commissioner shall execute his official bond in the sum of $5,000 and file his oath of office as required by law of other State officers.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to inspect all places where cows are kept for dairy purposes, cream separator stations, creameries, butter, cheese, or other dairy product factories, stores, warehouses, and other places where dairy products are made, stored, prepared for delivery or shipment, or exposed for sale, with a view to ascertaining such conditions as may affect the purity, wholesomeness and fitness of the products of any such place for human consumption, and make and file in the office of the commissioner written reports of the results of such inspections. Whenever the commissioner shall deem necessary he may call upon the health officers of the several counties to make, or to assist in, such inspection, and said health officers are hereby required to perform such duties.

SEC. 3. Said commissioner shall make and promulgate rules and regulations to be observed by the owners of cows, the milk wherefrom is to be offered for sale for human consumption, either in its natural state or as a manufactured product, relating to the feeding, care and treatment of such cows, the maintenance of the places where they are kept and milled, and the appliances used in connection therewith for the storage or transport of such milk or any product thereof; and as well relating to cream separators, creameries, cheese and butter factories, store houses and all other places where milk or any of the products therefrom are produced, manufactured, stored, kept, exposed for sale or transported, to secure the proper standard of such product, its purity, fitness and wholesomeness for human consumption. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the rules or regulations of the commissioner shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 4. Every person, firm or corporation, selling or offering for sale any milk or product thereof produced or manufactured in violation of any of the rules and regulations prescribed by the commissioner under the provisions of the preceding section, shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and each day on which such milk or product thereof is sold, or offered for sale shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

SEC. 5. To carry out the provisions of this act the commissioner or any county health officer named by him for such purpose, shall have free and unobstructed access to all places where cows are kept and milked, and to all parts of the premises and to the implements and appliances used in connection therewith, and in connection with the care and preservation and transport of the milk, and to all places where milk products are manufactured, stored, preserved or prepared for sale, delivery or transportation. Any one who shall obstruct or hinder the commissioner or any county health officer deputized by him, in the performance of their duties as set forth in this act shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 6. The commissioner shall have the power to investigate the manner, practices, processes and methods adopted or employed by any person, firm, or corporation in the production of milk or milk products for sale. For the pur

pose of any such investigation, the commissioner may require the attendance and testimony before him of witnesses and the production of books and papers insofar as they relate to the matter under investigation. Failure to regard the subpoena of the commissioner shall subject the offender to the penalties prescribed by law for disobedience in the taking of depositions in civil cases. The commissioner shall have the power to administer oaths to witnesses and to affiants whose affidavits may be taken under the provision of this act.

SEC. 7. If, upon investigation as provided for in the last preceding section, the commissioner shall find that any person, firm or corporation, has adopted or is employing any practice, process or method in the production of milk or milk products, which render or tend to render such milk products impure, unsanitary, unwholesome, or unfit for human consumption, he shall serve upon such person, firm, or corporation, a written order directing the abandonment of such practice, process or method, and to adopt and use such practice, process or method as shall insure the purity and wholesomeness, and the fitness of such product for human consumption. Any failure to comply with the provisions of this section and with any order of the commissioner issued thereunder, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and each day that shall elapse without obedience to or compliance with any such order shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

SEC.-8. The commissioner shall, from time to time, collect, compile, and publish in convenient form, statistics relating to the dairy business in the State and such other information relating thereto as may be of value to those engaged therein, and keep for ready reference in his office the original data so collected by him.

SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the commissioner, by himself or any county health officer duly appointed by him for that purpose, from time to time as it may in his opinion be necessary or proper to protect the public health, to take samples of and make tests for quality, character, purity, and wholesomeness of the milk or milk products produced or manufactured for human consumption, and for that purpose may demand of any person, firm or corporation en-gaged in the dairy business such samples as he may designate; and it shall be the duty of such person, firm, or corporation to deliver at once to, or permit said commissioner or county health officer to take such samples. Any person, firm, or corporation refusing, upon such demand, to deliver to or permit said commissioner or county health officer to take such samples shall be, upon conviction thereof, guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 10. The commissioner shall keep in his office a record of all analyses and tests of milk or milk products, which shall have been made under his direction, in a book to be kept there for that purpose, in which shall be noted the source whence the sample was taken and from whom, of what the sample consisted, the date when taken, and the date of the analysis or test, and the details of the result thereof in terms usual to the industry. A copy of such record relating to such sample certified to by the commissioner shall be taken in any court as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.

SEC. 11. Special dairy inspectors may be appointed by the dairy commissioner for any factory or plant which buys or receives milk or cream, or for a group of such factories or plants, or for any organization which poduces or handles dairy products: Provided, That the State shall not be liable for any compensation for any such special dairy inspector. Such special dairy inspector shall have all powers conferred by law upon dairy inspectors, and shall be under the supervision of the commissioner and make such reports as the said commissioner may require. He may supervise and inspect the weighing and testing of

milk, cream, butter, cheese, or condensed milk and for such purpose may use any or all necessary apparatus in such factory or plant.

SEC. 12. The standards for purity for dairy products shall be those prescribed by the Arizona pure food law.

(1) Whole milk is the lacteal secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, properly fed and kept, excluding that obtained within 15 days before and 5 days after calving, and contains not less than three and one-fourth per cent of butter fat.

(2) Milk for butter making or cheese making, or for condensed milk, may contain less than 3 per cent of butter fat, but must be delivered pure, sweet, and clean. Whole milk for consumption as a beverage shall contain not less than 3 per cent butter fat. Cream is that portion of milk, rich in butter fat, which rises to the surface of the milk on standing or is separated from it by centrifugal force, and contains not less than 18 per cent butter fat; cream to be used in the manufacture of butter that is not delivered to point of shipment within 24 hours after milking must contain not less than 30 per cent of butter fat and shall be delivered in wholesome condition. No part of any shipment of milk or cream to be used in the manufacture of food products shall be more than two days old when delivered at the point of shipment during the months of May to October, inclusive, and three days old during November to April, inclusive. Such milk or cream must not be delivered at the point of shipment more than one hour before the schedule time of train or other vehicle on which it is to be shipped, unless kept in a protected, cool, and sanitary place, free from foul odors. Butter is the product made by gathering, in any manner, the fat of fresh or ripened milk or cream into a mass which also contains not less than 80 per cent of butter fat and less than 16 per cent of water, or such tests as shall be established by the Department of Agriculture of the United States, and shall contain 16 ounces in every pound package: Provided, That the amount of butter fat or water in the product of any manufacturer, or in any given quantity of butter, shall be determined as hereinafter provided with reference to renovated or process butter; butter may also contain a harmless vegetable coloring matter. Renovated or process butter is the product made by melting butter and reworking, without the addition or use of chemicals or any substance except cream, milk, or salt, and contains not less than 80 per cent of butter fat and less than 16 per cent of water, or such test as shall be established by the Department of Agriculture of the United States; before being offered for sale shall be stamped “Renovated butter:" Provided, That the amount of butter fat or water in the product of any manufacturer, or in any given quantity of butter, renovated or process butter, shall be ascertained in the following manner, to wit: Five samples shall be taken from five different packages of any one manufacturer, or from any one tub or churning of butter, and a careful analysis made by the official method adopted by the Association of Agricultural Chemists. If this analysis shall show less than 80 per cent of butter fat or 16 per cent or more of water, butter or process butter thus analyzed shall be deemed adulterated butter, and shall be condemned for food purposes by the commissioner. Renovated or process butter may also contain a harmless vegetable coloring matter. Cheese is the solid and ripened product made by coagulating the casein of milk by means of rennet or acids, with or without the addition of ripening ferments or seasoning; cheese may also contain harmless vegetable coloring matter. Whole milk or full cream cheese is cheese made from milk from which no portion of the fat has been removed, and contains not less than 50 per cent of butter fat in proportion to total solids. Skim-milk cheese is cheese made from milk from which any portion of the fat has been removed, and must be stamped on cloth and containing box. Ice cream is a frozen product

made from cream and sugar, with or without natural flavoring, and contains not less than 14 per cent of milk fat; fruit ice cream is a frozen product made from cream, sugar, and sound, clean, mature fruits, and contains not less than 12 per cent milk fat; nut ice cream is a frozen product made from cream, sugar, and sound, nonrancid nuts, and contains not less than 12 per cent of milk fat.

SEC. 13. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to engage in this State in the manufacture or preparation for sale for human consump tion of cheese, butter, or condensed or evaporated milk or other milk product, at any factory in this State, without having a license therefor, as hereinafter provided. The commissioner shall grant a license to any applicant therefor to manufacture or otherwise prepare milk products, at a creamery, evaporated or condensed milk factory, cheese factory, or butter factory, or any continuation thereof within this State upon the conditions:

(a) That the factory at which the business is to be carried on in all its appointments, equipment, and surroundings are in compliance with the rules and regulations of the commissioner to insure cleanliness, sanitation, purity and wholesomeness.

(1) That the method, processes, and practices adopted and used therein are in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed therefor by the commissioner.

(c) That the applicant has not so repeatedly violated the rules and regulations prescribed by the commissioner as to make it appear that he is unfit to be allowed to carry on said business. The application for license shall be in writing in form to be prescribed by the commissioner. It shall state the name, residence, and post-office address of the applicant; if the applicant be a firm it shall state the names, residence, and post-office address of each of the incorporators. If the applicant is a corporation it shall state the full corporate name, the amount of its authorized capital stock, the name of the State under the laws of which it was organized. If it is a foreign corporation the fact that it has complied with the laws of this State relating to foreign corporations; the exact location of the factory, with a general description of it, and the character of business proposed to be carried on therein. The license shall contain a statement of all the facts recited in the application and shall be for a term expiring on the 1st day of January next following after the date of the license, and shall otherwise be in form prescribed by the commissioner. Before receiving such license, the applicant shall pay to the commissioner a license fee of $25: Provided, No fee shall be required of any person who manufac tures or sells only products from his own dairy. The commissioner may revoke any license issued under this section if the licensee shall repeatedly and persistently violate any of the provisions of this act or the rules and regulations applicable to such license [licensee?] or his business made and promul gated by the commissioner under the provisions of this act.

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SEC. 19. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Upon the presentation of duly verified claims for the salary of the commissioner and for traveling and other necessary expenses, in connection with the carrying out of the provisions of this act, the State auditor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant and the State treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

SEC. 20. Any person, firm, or corporation, or any agent of any firm or corporation, violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a mis

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