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Home My WebLink AboutORD 72 GGF ORDINANCE NO. ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 20 OF THE CODE OF •ORDINANCES OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS, BY ADDING SUBSECTIONS (f), (g), (h) AND (i) TO SECTION 20-1.1 CONTAINING DEFINITIONS; BY CHANGING FEE.FOR WHOLESALERTS PERMIT IN SECTION 20-.11; BY ALLOWING CERTAIN ADDITIONAL OPERATIONS UNDER ABBATOIR PERMIT IN SECTION 20-13; BY COMBINING MEAT PROCESSING AND FABRICATING UNDER SINGLE PERMIT IN SECTION 20.-14; BY ALLOWING CERTAIN ADDITIONAL OPERATIONS UNDER COLD --STORAGE FACILITIES PERMIT IN SECTION 20-15; BY CLARIFYING INSPECTION FEE COVERAGE IN SECTION 20-25. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: That the Code of Ordinances of Beaumont, Texas, is hereby amended by adding Subsections (f), (g), (h) and (i) to Section 20--1.1, said subsections to provide as follows: tt(f) Slaughtering. ---Those procedures required in killing, dressing, and eviscerating meat animals. (g) Fabrication. --Those procedures involved in reducing the properly dressed carcasses of meat animals into halves, quarters, primal por- tions, individual cuts, steaks, and subsequent appropriate packaging; and may be.interpreted to mean the grinding, chopping, comminution, or tenderizing of meat and its subsequent packaging, provided that no ingredient change shall be made during these fabricating procedures, except through the appropriate addition of tenderizing and condimental proportions of condimental substances. (h) Processing. ----Those procedures applied to meat, meat products, and/or meat by-products, to reduce them to marketable form, except those procedures included.in_laughtering. (i) Storage.. --Those procedures applied to meat and meat products not defined under slaughtering, processing, or fabrication.tt 2. That Section 20.11 of the Code of Ordinances of Beaumont, Texas, is hereby amended to provide as follows: ttSection 20--11. Wholesalers permit required. It shall be unlawful for any.person, either for himself or for his agent or employee of another, to sell-, or offer or expose -'for sale, or deliver for sale, use or consumption., or have in his possession for sale or delivery within the city any meat.or meat -food product; as a wholesale distributor as herein defined, without a whole-- salerts permit issued by the city health depart- ment. Every wholesale distributor as herein defined, desiring to engage in the business in the city, shall make application for permit to the city health officer on an annual -basis, being renewable on each succeeding lst day of January. Each original application or such annual renewal thereof shall be accompanied by a payment to the city of a permit fee of $25.00 per year . tt 3• That Section 20--13 of the Code of Ordinances of Beaumont, Texas, is hereby amended to provide as follows: ttSection 20-13. Abattoir permit, fee. No person shall operate any abattoir or slaughter- house within the corporate limits of the city unless such person has been issued an abattoir permit by the health officer of the city, which permit must be renewed annually on each succeeding lst day of January. Persons desiring to operate abattoirs shall have their 'permits issued by the health. department of the city and thereafter shall obtain annual renewals on each succeeding lst day of January. The original application for an abattoir permit and each renewal thereof shall be accompanied by the payment to the city of a permit fee of $25.00 per year, in addition to hourly fees as hereinafter set out. An abattoir permit shall entitle the holder, in addition to the slaughtering of animals and poultry, to perform operations authorized under a wholesalerts permit, a processing and/or fabri- cating permit, or a cold --storage facilities permit without the necessity of obtaining such other permits or paying the fees therefor, provided that the per- formance of such operations and the facilities therefor comply with all rules and regulations adopted in Section, 20-1, tt 4• That Section 20"14 of the Code of Ordinances of Beaumont, Texas, .is hereby amended to provide as follows: ttSection 20-14. .Meat processing -and/or fabricating permit. All persons processing and/or fabricating any meat, meat products, or meat -food products for sale or 2" t ttconsumption in the city, who do not engage in an exclusive retail business, and which persons do no slaughtering, but process and/'or,fabricate meat, meat products, or meat -food products and whose plants.are inspected under the supervision of the health officer of this city, shall be required.to obtain -a meat processing and/or, fabricating permit. Every such person shall make application for said permit to the health depart- ment, which.permit shall be issued by the city health officer on an annual basis, being renew- able on each succeeding lst day of January. Each original application or such annual renewal thereof shall be accompanied by a payment to the city of a permit fee of $25.00 per year. A pro- cessing and/or fabricating permit.shall entitle the holder.in addition to processing and/or fabricating, to perform operations authorized under a whol,esalerts permit or a cold -storage facilities permit' without .the necessity of ob- taining such other permits or paying the fees therefor, provided that.the performance of such operations and the facilities therefor comply with all rules and regulations adopted in Section 20--1. The terms processing (processor) and fabricating (fabricator) .as defined in Section 20--1.1 of this ordinance -shall include the following: I. Any meat vendor that or manufactures any on a wholesale basis fashion. processes, fabricates, comminuted meat products for resale.in any 2. Any retail meat vendor who supplies any.meat- product:to.resale channels in excess of ten (10%) per cent of gross meat tonnage handled in .one month by.said retail meat vendor. 3. A meat locker establishment which prepares- -meat in any fashion for home locker usage.tt 5. Y C r l� That Section 20-»15 -of the Code of Ordinances of Beaumont, Texas, is hereby amended to provide as -follows: itSecti.on 20-15. - Cold --storage facilities permit, fee. No person shall rent or lease any cooler, meat locker, or any other cold --storage facility of any kind or description, or in any manner permit such cooler, meat locker, or other cold -storage facility to.be used.for the storage of meat, meat products, or meat --food products, unless such person has been issued a cold -storage facilities permit by the city - health officer who is authorized to issue such per- mit upon receipt of application therefor, accompanied by the payment to the city of a permit fee of Twenty - Five ($25.00) Dollars. This permit shall be renewable 44annually on each succeeding first day of January and each renewal shall be accompanied by a like fee. A cold --storage facilities permit shall entitle the holder in addition to the storage of meat, meat products,.or meat -food products, to perform opera- tions authorized under a wholesalerls permit -,Without the necessity of obtaining such permit or paying the fees therefor, provided that the performance of such operations and the facilities therefor comply with all rules and regulations adopted'in Section 20-1. It is.the purpose and intent of this chapter to require that person who has the -right to control the placing of meat in the cold -storage facility to obtain the permit, whether such person is the owner or lessee of such facility. Cold -storage facilities, meat locker's, coolers, and the like, of thirty (30) cubic feet capacity or less, used for storage of meat and other frozen foods ,by individuals for family consumption and in which no meat is stored for the purpose of sale, are exempt from the provisions of this section.1t . 6. That Section 20--25 of the Code of Ordinances of Beaumont, Texas, is hereby amended to provide as follows: I'Section 20--25. Inspection fees amounts. All persons operating and doing business under a wholesaler's permit, an abattoir permit, a process- ing and/or fabricating permit, or a cold --storage facilities permit, shall be inspected by a meat inspector or inspectors under the supervision of the city health officer, and shall pay to the city an inspection fee o.f'$3.50,per hour for each inspec- tor for the time spent in the inspection of his establishment. The fees herein provided for shall be paid to the city .on a monthly basis and the city health officer is authorized to prescribe the necessary forms or reports for the determination of the amount of fees due hereunder. The certi- ficate of the city health.officer as to the amount of money owing by any permit holder for inspection fees shall be conclusive and binding unless -contro- verted by clear and convincing evidence to the contrary. All inspection fees accruing for any calendar month shall be payable to the city -not later than the l5th.day of the month following, and if the sum of money .due for'such calendar month, as evidenced by the certificate of the city health officer, has not been.pa.id to the city at the end of said 15th day, the city health officer shall suspend the permit of the person failing to make such payment, and the permit shall continue sus- pended until payment is',rmade. Regular inspections will be made during regular city working hours. In the event a permit holder requires an inspection at times other than regular city work days, the health department may furnish an inspector or inspectors - if such request is reasonable; and an emergency exists. 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