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ORDINANCE NO. 5790
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 7525 TO PROVIDE FOR
INSPECTION FEES TO DEFRAY THE COST OF MEAT INSPECTIONS IN
THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE
VIOLATION THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. Fees and Records of Inspections: To cover a part
of the cost of animal and meat inspection by the Health Department of
the City of Little Rock as req_aired by ordinances of the City of Little
Rock, the following inspection fees shall be paid to the City Collector
by each person, firm, or corporation slaughtering any animal within
the separate zones hereby established to be used for food. The follow-
ing inspection fees small be paid by each person, firm, or corporation
according to the zone in which they are located, as follows:
(a) Zone 1. Within the limits of the City of Little Rock and
within five ( 5) miles from the outside of the city limits: For grown
cattle and yearlings of 250 pounds or more, dressed weight, 25¢ each;
for all other animals, 15� each.
(b) Zone 2. Between five (5) to ten (10) miles from the city
limits of the City of Little Rock: For grown cattle and yearlings of
250 pounds or more, dressed weight, 30¢ each; all other animals, 20�
each.
(c) Zone 3. For such establishments beyond ten (10) miles from
the city limits of the City of Little Rock: For grown cattle and year-
lings of 250 pounds or more, dressed weight, 45s each; all other
animals 35s each, plus $1.50 for each inspection trip made.
Provided that if any person, firm, or corporation shall slaughter
in excess of 500 small animals (less than 250 pounds each) in any one
calendar month, the inspection fee on small animals shall be reduced
to 14 each, if located in Zone 1; 15s in Zone 2, and 30¢ in Zone 3.
Providing, in lieu of the above inspection fees, any person,
firm or corporation, slaughtering less than 12,000 animals per annum
may pay an annual inspection fee of $800.00 per year if paid on or
before January 31st of each year.
Providing further that any person, firm or corporation slaughter-
ing 12,000 animals or more per annum may pay an annual inspection fee
of $1,400.00 per year if paid on or before January 31st of each year.
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SECTION 2. All persons, firms, or corporations slaughtering
cattle and /or operating an establishment, as defined by Section 1 (d)
of Ordinance 7273, who have at least one full -time Federal meat in-
spector upon their premises at all times for the purpose of making
inspections under Federal regulations are hereby exempt from the terms
and provisions of this ordinance, and such establishments shall not be
-inspected by the Health Department of the City of Little Rock.
SECTION 3. Each person, firm, or corporation, other than
those establishments selling exclusively direct to the consumer at
retail, engaged in the business of canning, curing, smoking, salting,
packing, rendering, the manufacturing of sausage, or the processing of
meat and /or meat products shall pay an annual premises inspection fee
in the sum of $250.00. Provided, however, that any person, firm, or
corporation having a full -time Federal meat inspector upon the premises
at all times, whose duty it shall be to inspect such operations, shall
be exempt from the inspection fee imposed by this section, and no
inspection of such premises shall be made by the City of Little Rock.
Provided, further, that all persons subject to the inspection and
inspection fee provided for in Section 1 of this Ordinance shall be
exempt from the inspection fee imposed by this section.
SECTION 4. The inspector shall keep an accurate record of
all animals, meat, and meat products inspected by him, and shall make
a daily report of his work to the Health Officer on a form provided
by the Health Officer. At the end of each month the Health Officer
shall file a copy of said report with the City Collector, who shall
collect from each person, firm, or corporation the inspection fee due
for the preceding month.
If any person fails to pay the amount due the City as, per
statement rendered by the City Collector by the fifteenth of the month
following the notification of the amouiat due, the City Collector shall
notify the City Health Officer, who is hereby authorized and directed
to withdraw inspection service from such establishments until such fee
is paid; and such person shall be prohibited from processing, manufactur-
ing, bringing, or causing to be brought into the City of Little Rock
any meat or meat products to be or which might be consumed, sold, or
traded in the City of Little Rock.
SECTION 5. All fees herein provided for shall be used
only for the expense of carrying out meat inspection and control
ordinances of the City of Little Rock.
SECTION 6. Penalty: Any person convicted of a violation
of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than twenty -five dollars
($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), and each day
SECTION 7. Ordinances 7484, 43222 and 3086, and all
ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed. Unless the provisions of this ordinance are put into
effect immediately, the public peace, health, and safety of the
citizens of Little Rock will be adversely affected. Therefore, an
emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in
full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.
PASSED: December 3, 1951
ATTEST:
City Clerk
APPROVED;
Mayor