(A) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in the business of selling, peddling or delivering ice within the corporate limits of the city without first having obtained a license so to do.
(B) All dealers in ice shall pay an annual license fee of $15; provided, however, that any person, firm or corporation licensed to keep a coal yard shall be authorized to deal in ice without the payment of any further license fee.
(C) No person, firm or corporation shall sell or deliver in the city, any ice for domestic use which shall have been taken from any lake, pond, river, stream or other body of water, wherever located, which is defiled by sewage, garbage, ashes, decaying vegetation, refuse or wastes from any industry, or by any other substance tending to make the ice cut or obtained from such water impure and unhealthful; nor shall any person, firm or corporation sell or deliver any except pure and healthful ice, free from nitrites and pathogenic bacteria and to contain not more than nine-thousands of one part of free ammonia and nine-thousands of one part of albuminoid ammonia in one hundred thousand parts; provided, that this section shall not be construed to prohibit the selling or delivery of impure ice to be used only for packing or cooling purposes, that is to say, for use in places where it will not come in contact with articles of food or drink.
(D) Every person, firm or corporation selling ice or offering ice for sale, shall at the time of delivery of any ice sold, if requested to do so by the purchaser of such ice or any servant or employee of such purchaser to whom the delivery of such ice is made weigh the quantity of ice delivered and for that purpose use accurate apparatus for weighing such ice. All ice sold within the city shall be sold by avoirdupois weight unless it is otherwise especially agreed upon between the buyer and the seller.
(E) It shall be the duty of the City Health Officer and he or she is hereby authorized, to make such inspections as are necessary to secure compliance with the provisions of this section, and of all ordinances of the city relative to public health, and he or she shall make immediate report of all violations thereof to the Mayor.
(Ord. 1612, passed 5-6-2003) Penalty, see § 113.99
Cross reference:
Coal yards, see § 127.03