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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1553 - ADMIN Ordinance - City Council - 1982/05/031 MAY 3, 1982 8a ORDINANCE NO. 1553 A4 ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ST. LOUIS PARK ORDINANCE CODE RELATED TO ANIMAL QUARANTINE, FOOD HANDLING, VENDING MACHINES AND AMUSEMENT DEVICES AMENDING SECTIONS 11-304 AND 14-812 (2) AND ADDING SECTIONS 13-405, 13-416 AND 13-922. THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. Section 11-304 of the St. Louis Park City Code is renumbered as Section 11-312 and amended to read as attached. Section 2. A new Section 13-405 is added to read as attached. Section 3. A new Section 13-416 is 'added to read as attached. Section 4. Section 13-812 (2) of the St. Louis Park City Code is amended to read as attached. Section 5. A new Section 13-922 is added to read as attached. Regulation of Other Animals Section 11-310. Regulating the Keeping of Domestic Animals. (1) Keeping Animals. No person shall keep or harbor any horses, cattle, sheep, goats or swine in the city, or permit the same to be done upon premises owned, occupied or controlled by him except under the conditions prescribed by this section. (2) Permits Required. No person shall, without special permission or written permit from the City Manager keep or harhor any sheep, goats, swine, horses, or cattle within the City of St. Louis Park. Section 11-311. Sale of Baby Chicks, Fowl and Rabbits. No person shall sell or offer for sale, or give away for advertising or promotional purposes, chicks, rabbits or ducklings less than thirty days old as pets or novelties; provided that this ordinance shall not be construed as prohibiting an isolated sale or gift of such chicks, rabbits or ducklings not in connection with any business enterprise, nor sales for commercial purposes by hatcheries or stores engaged in the business of selling such chicks or ducklings for commercial purposes, and equipped with proper brooder facilities to care for same. Section 11-312. Animal Quarantine. Whenever any person owning, possessing or harboring any dog or cat within the corporate limits of the City of St. Louis Park shall learn that such dog or cat has potentially exposed any human being to rabies, such person shall immediately impound said dog or cat in a place of confinement where it cannot escape or have access to any human being or other animal and shall also immediately notify the Chief of Police. Whenever the Chief of Police shall learn that any human being has been potentially exposed to rabies by any dog or cat within the said city, he shall ascertain the identity of such dog or cat and the person owning, possessing or harboring it and shall immediately direct such person to forthwith impound such dog or cat as herein required. Any dog or cat so impounded shall be kept continuously so confined for a period of ten days from the day the dog or cat potentially exposed a human being. Upon learning that a dog or cat has potentially exposed a human being to rabies, the Chief of Police shall immediately notify the Health Authority and inform him of the place where the dog or cat is impounded. May, 1982 1 1 1 For this purpose he shall have access to the premises where such dog or cat is kept at all reasonable hours and may take possession of the dog or cat and confine it in the city pound or other suitable place at the expense of the owner. The owner or person in possession or harboring such doq or cat shall immediately notify the Health Authority of any evidence of sickness or death of the dog or cat during its period of confinement and shall promptly deliver its carcass to the Health Authority in case of its death during said period. It shall be the duty of the Health Authority to determine by inspection or telephone call if said dog or cat is alive at the end of the ten-day confinement period. The Health Authority in agreement with an attending physician and/or the Minnesota Department of Health may confiscate, destroy and subject to laboratory examination a dog or cat which has potentially exposed a human being to rabies if such a dog or cat exhibits signs of illness indicating the presence of rabies during the quarantine period and may confiscate, destroy and subject to laboratory examination any animal other than a dog or cat if such animal has potentially exposed any human being to rabies. The owner or other person in possession of any animal confiscated by the Health Authority shall be notified prior to such action if the owner or other person is available. tiay, 1982 295.1 Section 13-404. The annual license fee for any individual or business owning a mechanical amusement device operated within St. Louis Park shall be determined according to the total number of machines located within the City. Number of Machines Owners License Fee 1 - 2 4120 3 - 15 450 More than 15 600 In addition an annual license fee for each mechanical amusement device shall be required. The annual license fee for each machine shall be $42. Section 13-405. Mechanical Amusement Identification. Each mechanical amusement device shall have posted thereon a label or sign stating the name, address and telephone number of the licensee. May, 1982 390.1 1 1 1 issuance of the license, the City Manager shall cause periodic inspection to be made of all such devices and may, if any such device be found defective or unsafe, suspend or revoke the license therefor forthwith. Section 13-414. License Fees. The annual license fee for such a license shall be $18.09 for each amusement device. Section 13-415. Prohibited in Public Places. No amusement device as defined herein shall be located, placed, maintained or operated on any public street or highway in the City of St. Louis Park. Section 13-416. Amusement Device Identification. Each amusement device shall have posted thereon a label or sign stating the name, address and telephone number of the licensee. May, 1982 392 Section 13-812. Itinerant Food Establishments. Itinerant food establishments shall comply with all the applicable provisions of this ordinance, and shall be constructed and operated in an approved manner, provided, that specific requirements for physical facilities may be waived by the Health Authroity when suitable substitutes, which, in his opinion, will not result in an imminent health hazard, have been provided. Before commencing operations of any kind, the licensee hereunder shall notify the Health Authority that such food establishment is ready for final inspection, and the Health Authority shall immediately make an inspection and issue a report thereon, and no itinerant food establishment shall commence operations until the requirements of this ordinance have been met in accordance with the Health Authority's final inspection reports. Section 13-813. Sources of Food - General. All food in all food establishments shall be clean, wholesome, free from spoilage,. adulteration, and misbranding, and shall be prepared, processed, handled, packaged, transported, and stored so as to be protected from contamination and spoilage and shall be safe for human consumption. No home prepared food shall be kept or used in any food establishment; except that (1) pot luck dinner and similar type gatherings, wherein the food is consumed by that group and not sold, may use home -prepared foods including potentially hazardous food; (2) bake sales for any charitable purpose, wherein the food is consumed by that group and not sold, may use home -prepared foods other than potentially hazardous food; (3) school pupils may use home -prepared foods other than potentially hazardous food. All food received or used in all food establishments shall he from sources approved by the Health Authority. Section 13-814. Source of Dairy Products. Milk and fluid milk products used or served shall be pasteurized and shall meet the Grade A quality standards as established by law. Fluid milk and fluid milk products shall be served to the consumer in the individual, unopened, original containers in which they were received from the distributor or served from a bulk container equipped with a sanitary dispensing May, 1982 467 1 1 such tag and/or seal except under the direction of the Regulatory Authority. Section 13-920. Adoption by Reference - Federal Food and Drug Requirements. The model sanitation ordinance entitled The Vending of Food and Beverages and further identified as the 1978 Recommendation of the Food and Drug Administration is hereby adopted in part and shall be controlling within the City of St. Louis Park. The following chapters and sections are adopted by reference. Chapter Two - Food Care Chapter Three - Personnel Chapter Four - Equipment and Utensils Chapter Five - Sanitary Facilities and Control Chapter Six - Section 401 Procedure When Infection is Suspected Appendix A - Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, Section 201• (s) and (t). At least three copies of said document shall be on file in the office of the Clerk of the City of St. Louis Park for use and examination by the public and shall be marked "Official Copies." Section 13-921. Adoption by Reference -Machine Construction Standards. All vending machines used or installed with the City of St. Louis Park shall meet the requirements of National Sanitation Standard No. 25 which is part of NSF Food Service Equipment Standards, dated 1978, or shall meet the requirements of the Vending Machine Evaluation Manual covering sanitary design and construction standards for food and beverage vending machines published by the National Automatic Merchandising Association, 7 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603; dated January 1979. At least three copies of each of the said standards and requirements shall be on file in the office of the Clerk of the City of St. Louis Park for use and examination by the public and shall be marked "Official Copies." Section 13-922. Vending Machine Identification. Each food vending machine shall have posted thereon a label or sign stating the name, address and telephone number of the licensee. May, 1982 ,n yr 485.16 Section 6. Penalty. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not more than $500 or by imprisonment for a period not to exceed 90 days or both. Section 7. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect 15 days after its publication. Adopted by the City Council Mai_ 3, 1982 Attest: Reviewed for administration: III ty Manager Mayor Approved, to form an• legality: �'City Attorney r 1 1 1 i 0 SUN NEWSPAPERS AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION ST. LOUIS PARK SUN 924 Excelsior Avenue West Hopkins, Minnnesot State of Minnesota County of Hennepin (Official Publication) ORDINANCE NO 1559 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ST LOUIS PARK ORDINANCE CODE RELATED TO ANIMAL QUARANTINE, FOOD HANDLING, VENDING MACHINES AND AMUSEMENT DEVICES AMENDING SECTION 11-304 AND SECTION 13-813 AND ADDING SECTION 13-405, SECTION 19-418 AND SECTION 13-922. Summary The ordinance provides a ten day quarantine period for dogs and cats potentially exposing a human being to rabies and provides that any animal potentially exposing a human being to rabies land under certain conditions may beconfiscated, de- stroyed and subjected to laboratory examination It also provides that certain groups under specific condi- tions may have bake sales using home prepared food other than poten- tially hazardous food The ordinance also specifies that food vending ma- chines and amusement devices be identified with the name, address and phone numbers of the licensee Effective Date This ordinance shalhjake effect fifteen days after its pbbhcation Adopted by the Codnctll;,May 3, 1982 (s) PHYLLIS McQUAID Mayor A copy of the full text of this or- dinance is available for inspection with the City Clerk , (May 12, 1982) -SLP D K MORTENSON, being duly sworn, on oath says he is and during all times here stated has been the vice president and general manager of the newspaper know as The St Louis Park Sun and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows (1) Said newspaper is printed in the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed space to at least 900 square inches (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at least once every week (3) Said newspaper has 50% of its news columns devoted to news of local interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisement (4) Said newspaper is circulated in and near the municipalities which it purports to serve, has at least 500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of at least 75% of its total circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second- class matter in its local post -office (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the City of St Louis Park, Golden Valley School District No 275 and Robbinsdale School District No 281 in the County of Hennepin and it has its known office of issue in the City of Hopkins in said county, established and open during its regular business hours for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and maintained by the managing officer of said newspaper or persons in its employ and subject to his direction and control during all such regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such regula • business hours and at which said newspaper is printed (6) Said newspaper files a copy of each issue immediately with the State Historical Society (7) Said newspaper is made available at single or subscription prices to any person, corporation, partnership or other unincorporated association requesting the newspaper and making the applicable payment (8) Said newspaper has complied with all foregoing conditions for at least one year preceding the day or dates of publication mentioned below (9) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of Minnesota prior to January 1, 1966 and each January 1 thereafter and affidavit in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and signed by the managing officer of said newspaper and sworn to before a notary public stating that the newspaper is a legal newspaper He further states on oath that the printed Ordinance No. 1553 hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published therein in the English language, once each week, for_011e_successive weeks, that it was first so published on Wed the 12 day of MaY 19 82 and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including the day of 19 and that the following is a printed copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to wit abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12 12, day of May MERIDEL M. HEDBLOM NOTARY PUBLIC - MINNESOTA HENNEPIN COUNTY My commission expires July 2, 1986 19 82