It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, display, store, prepare, cook, or serve any food which may be deemed unwholesome; and it shall be the duty of the Department of Health to enter at any time and place, other than a private dwelling, to seize and destroy all such food; provided, that in case there is a doubt as to the condition of any such food, the Department of Health may affix or cause to be affixed to the food, or to the container in which it may be enclosed, a seal indicating that the food and its containers have been held for further investigation by the Department of Health. It shall be unlawful for any person to alter, remove, deface or obliterate any seal so affixed, or to remove the food or container so sealed to any other place, or to instigate or permit the changing, removal, defacement or obliteration of the seal or the removal to any other place of the food or the container thereof, so sealed.
(Amend Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 6-10-96, p. 23652; Amend Coun. J. 12-13-17, p. 63286, § 4)