Hill v. Fetherolf

Citations

• 236 Pa. 70
• 84 A. 677
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 715

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Cities of the third class — License — Millc inspection.</p> <p>1. A city of the third class has the power to enact an ordinance purporting, as its title shows, “to secure the wholesomeness and purity of milk, meat and meat products, by authorizing the inspection thereof, by providing for the licensing of persons dealing therein, by prohibiting the sale or offering for sale of milk, meat and meat food products which are impure, unwholesome or adulterated, or otherwise unfit for human consumption, by providing penalties for the enforcement of the same,” and directing the appointment of a “meat and milk inspector,” providing for the licensing of vendors upon payment of $10 per year. An ordinance of this nature is an exercise of the police power of the city, and cannot be considered in any way a trade regulation.</p> <p>2. Such an ordinance may properly provide that no license shall issue to sell the millc of any dairy or herd wherever situated unless the owner thereof shall submit the dairy and herd to a proper inspection. The ordinance is not rendered void by the fact that it also provides for an inspection of places of persons holding a license where such places are in the city limits and within twenty miles of the city limits, and a revocation of such license, if the premises are found unsanitary, or if an inspection is refused to be allowed.</p>