§ 3.1-385. (Repealed effective October 1, 2008) Transportation or storage under insanitary condition...
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, or for any transportation company, express company, railroad company or steamboat company or any common carrier to permit insanitary conditions to exist in the transportation or storage of an article of food, whereby such article of food may become contaminated from being so transported or stored in insanitary surroundings.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $100, and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county or city jail not to exceed ninety days, or until such fine and costs are paid, or by both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.
The Commissioner is charged with the enforcement of this section, and he and his assistants or agents shall have full right to enter and inspect all stores, warehouses, freight or express cars, steamboats or steamships, trucks, dray wagons, and any and all means or places of transportation or storage of articles of food; and any person, firm or corporation who shall hinder or obstruct the Commissioner, his assistants or agents in the discharge of the authority or duty imposed upon him or them by the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of a violation of the same.
Whenever any article of food is transported or stored under insanitary conditions, the proceedings for the enforcement of the penalties and punishments fixed for violations of this section may be instituted and maintained in any county or city through which or in which such article of food has been or is so transported or stored under insanitary conditions as aforesaid.
(Code 1950, § 3-305; 1966, c. 702.)
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