section, patented, proprietary or trade-marked stock and poultry foods, and all other materials of a similar nature intended for stock or poultry, not included in section 3 of this Act.

AN ACT to prevent the preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, or distributing of food intended for sale, or sale of food, under insanitary, unhealthful or unclean conditions or surroundings, to create a sanitary inspection, to declare that such conditions shall constitute a nuisance, and to provide for the enforcement thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That every building, room, basement, inclosure or premises, occupied, used or maintained as a bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing house, slaughter house, creamery, cheese factory, restaurant, hotel, grocery, meat market, or as a factory, shop, warehouse, any public or place or manufacturing establishment used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of any food as defined by statute, which is intended for sale, shall be properly and adequately lighted, drained, plumbed and ventilated, and shall be conducted with strict regard to the influence of such conditions upon the health of the operatives, employés, clerks, or other persons therein. employed, and the purity and wholesomeness of the food therein produced, prepared, manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed.

§ 2. The floors, sidewalls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, implements and machinery of every such establishment or place where such food intended for sale is produced, prepared, manufacture[d], packed, stored, sold or distributed, and all cars, trucks and vehicles used in the transportation of such food products, shall at no time be kept or permitted to remain in an unclean, unhealthful or insanitary condition; and for the purpose of this Act, unclean, unhealthful and insanitary conditions shall be deemed to exist if food in the process of production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, sale, distribution or transportation is not securely protected from flies, dust, dirt, and, as far as may be necessary, by all reasonable means, from all other foreign or injurious contamination; or if the refuse, dirt or waste products subject not conform to the definition or analytical requirements provided in this

to decomposition and fermentation incident to the manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, selling, distributing or transportation of such food are not removed daily, or if all trucks, trays, boxes, buckets or other receptacles, or the shutes, platforms, racks, tables, shelves, and knives, saws, cleavers or other utensils, or the machinery used in moving, handling, cutting, chopping, mixing, canning or other processes are not thoroughly cleaned daily; or if the clothing of operatives, employés, clerks or other persons therein employed, is unclean.

3. The sidewalls and ceilings of every bakery, confectionery, creamery, cheese factory, and hotel or restaurant kitchen shall be so constructed that they can easily be kept clean; and every building, room, basement or inclosure occupied or used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of food shall have an impermeable floor made of cement or tile laid in cement, brick, wood or other suitable material which can be flushed and washed clean with water.

§ 4. All such factories, buildings, and other places containing food, shall be so provided with proper doors and screens adequate to prevent contamination of the product from flies.

§ 5. Every such building, room, basement, inclosure, or premises occupied, used or maintained for the production, preparation, manufacture, canning, packing, storage, sale or distribution of such food, shall have adequate and convenient toilet rooms, lavatory or lavatories. The toilet rooms shall be separate and apart from the room or rooms where the process of production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, canning, selling and distributing is conducted. The floors of such toilet rooms shall be of cement, tile, wood, brick or other non-absorbent material, and shall be washed and scoured daily. Such toilet or toilets shall be furnished with separate ventilating flues and pipes discharging into soil pipes or shall be on the outside of and well removed from the building. Lavatories and wash rooms shall be adjacent to toilet rooms, or when the toilet is outside of the building, the wash room shall be near the exit to the toilet and shall be supplied with soap, running water and towels and shall be maintained in a sanitary condition.

6. If any such building, room, basement, inclosure or premises occupied, used or maintained for the purposes aforesaid, or if the floors, sidewalls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, implements, appliances or machinery of any such establishment, shall be constructed, kept, maintained, or permitted to remain in a condition contrary to any of the requirements or provisions of the preceding five (5) sections of this Act, the same is hereby declared a nuisance, and any toilet, toilet room, lavatory or wash room as aforesaid, which shall be constructed, kept, maintained or permitted to remain in a condition contrary to the requirements or provisions of section five (5) of this Act, is hereby declared a nuisance; and any car, truck, or vehicle used in the moving or transportation of any food product as aforesaid, which shall be kept or permitted to remain in an unclean, unhealthful or insanitary condition is

hereby declared a nuisance. Whoever unlawfully maintains, or allows or permits to exist a nuisance as herein defined shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished as herein provided.

§ 7. Every person, firm or corporation operating or maintaining an establishment or place where food is produced, prepared, manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed shall provide the necessary cuspidors for the use of the operatives, employés, clerks, and other persons, and each cuspidor shall be thoroughly emptied and washed out daily with water or a disinfectant solution, and five ounces thereof shall be left in each cuspidor while it is in use. Whoever fails to observe the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished as hereinafter provided.

§ 8. No operative, employé, or other persons shall expectorate on the food or on the utensils or on the floors or sidewalls of any building, room, basement or cellar where the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing or sale of any such food is conducted. Operatives, employés, clerks, and all other persons who handle the material from which such food is prepared or the finished product, before beginning work, or after visiting toilet or toilets, shall wash their hands thoroughly in clean water. Whoever fails to observe or violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars.

§ 9. It shall be unlawful for any person to sleep, or to allow or permit any person to sleep in any work room of a bake shop, kitchen, dining room, confectionery, creamery, cheese factory, or any place where food is prepared for sale, served or sold, unless all foods therein handled are at all times in hermetically sealed packages.

§ 10. It shall be unlawful for any employer to require, suffer or permit any person who is affected with any contagious or venereal disease to work, or for any person so affected to work, in a building, room, basement, inclosure, premises or vehicle occupied or used for the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution, or transportation of food.

§ 11. It shall be the duty of the State Food Commissioner and those appointed by him to enforce this Act, and for that purpose the State Food Commissioner and his appointees shall have full power at all times. to enter every such building, room, basement, inclosure or premises. occupied or used or suspected of being occupied or used for the production, preparation or manufacture for sale, or the storage, sale, distribution or transportation of such food, to inspect the premises and all utensils, fixtures, furniture and machinery used as aforesaid; and if upon inspection any such food producing or distributing establishment, conveyance, or employer, employé, clerk, driver or other person is found to be violating any of the provisions of this Act, or if the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution or transportation of such food is being conducted in a manner detrimental to the health of the employés and operatives, or to the character or qual

ity of the food therein being produced, manufactured, packed, stored, sold, distributed or conveyed, the officer or inspector making the inspection or examination shall report such conditions and violations to the State Food Commissioner. The State Food Commissioner or the assistant commissioner shall thereupon issue a written order to the person, firm or corporation responsible for the violation or condition aforesaid to abate such condition or violation or to make such changes or improvements as may be necessary to abate them, within such reasonable time as may be required in which to abate them. Notice of such order may be served by delivering a copy thereof to said person, firm or corporation, or by sending a copy thereof by registered mail, and the receipt thereof through the postoffice shall be prima facie evidence that notice of said order has been received. Such person, firm or corporation shall have the right to appear in person or by attorney before the State Food Commissioner, or the person appointed by him for such purpose, within the time limited in the order, and shall be given an opportunity to be heard and to show why such order or instructions should not be obeyed. Such hearing shall be under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State Food Commissioner. If after such hearing it shall appear that the provisions or requirements of this Act have not been violated, said order shall be rescinded. If it shall appear that the requirements or provisions of this Act are being violated, and that the person, firm or corporation notified as aforesaid is responsible therefor, said previous order shall be confirmed or amended, as the facts shall warrant, and shall thereupon be final, but such additional time as is necessary may be granted within which to comply with said final order. If such person, firm or corporation is not present or represented when such final order is made, notice thereof shall be given as above provided. On failure of the party or parties to comply with the first order of the State Food Commissioner within the time prescribed, when no hearing is demanded, or upon failure to comply with the final order, within the time specified, the State Food Commissioner shall certify the facts to the State's attorney of the county in which such violation occurred, and such State's attorney shall proceed against the party or parties for the fines and penalties provided by this Act, and also for the abatement of the nuisance: Provided, that the proceedings herein prescribed for the abatement of nuisances as defined in this Act shall not in any manner relieve the violator from prosecution in the first instance for every such violation, nor from the penalties for such violation prescribed by section 13 of this Act.

§ 12. All fines collected under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which the prosecution is brought, and it shall be the duty of the State's attorneys in the respective counties to prosecute all persons violating or refusing to obey the provisions of this Act.

§ 13. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Act, or who refuses to comply with any lawful order or requirement of the State Food Commissioner, duly made in writing as provided in section 11 of

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this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), and for the second and subsequent offenses by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court; and each day after the expiration of the time limit for abating insanitary conditions and completing improvements to abate such conditions, as ordered by the State Food Commissioner, as aforesaid, shall constitute a distinct and separate offense.

§ 14. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

(HOUSE BILL No. 668. APPROVED JUNE 10, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend "An Act to establish the Illinois Historical Library and to provide for its care and maintenance and to make an appropriation therefor," approved May 25, 1889, in force July 1, 1889. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 4 of an Act to establish the Illinois Historical Library and to provide for its care and maintenance and to make appropriation therefor be amended to read as follows:

§ 4. The said trustees shall have power and they are hereby required to make all necessary rules, regulations and by-laws not inconsistent with law to carry into effect the purposes of this Act, and to procure from time to time as may be possible and practicable, at reasonable cost, all books, pamphlets, manuscripts, monographs, writing, and other material of historical interest and useful to the historian bearing upon the political, physical, religious or social history of the State of Illinois from the earliest known period of time. They shall also have power to select some person having the requisite qualifications as librarian, whose salary shall be two thousand dollars per annum.

APPROVED June 10, 1911.