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ORDINANCE NO. ""1---
AN ORDINANCE MAKING IT UNLAWFUL FOR ANY
PERSON TO WORK AS A COOK, HOUSEMAID, HOUSE-
HOLD SERVANT, OR IN ANY PLACE OF BUSINESS
WHERE ANY PRODUCT INTENDED FOR HmIAN CON-
Sm~PTION IS MANUFACTURED, PROCESSED OR DIS-
PENSED, OR TO OPERATE A LAUNDRY, DRY CLEAN-
ING ESTABLISHMENT, PRESSING CLUB, OR TO
WASH CLOTHES FOR HIRE, OR TO OPERATE ANY
PLACE OF BUSINESS WHERE PRODUCTS INTENDED
FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION ARE MANUFACTURED, PRO-
CESSED, DR DISPENSED, WITHOUT FIRST OBTAIN-
ING A CERTIFICATE FROM A LICENSED REGISTERED
MEDICAL PHYSICIAN CERTIFYING THAT THEY ARE
FREE FROM VENEREAL DISEASE OF ANY KIND, OR,
IF SUFFERING FROM ANY SUCH DISEASE, THAT
THEY ARE UNDER ACTIVE TREATMENT FOR THE SAME.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT:
SECTION 1. Words of the masculine gender as used in
this Ordinance shall include the feminine gender; the word
"person" shall include corporations, firms and/or associa-
tions; and words in the singular number shall include the
plural number and vice versa.
SECTION 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person
to work as a cook, housemaid, household servant, or in any
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place of business where any product which is intended for
human consumption is manufactured, processed or dispensed,
or to operate a laundry, dry cleaning establishment, press-
ing club, or to wash clothes for hire, or to operate any
place of business where any product which is intended for
human consumption is manufactured, processed or dispensed,
at any place within the' corporate limits of the City of
Clermont, unless he has first obtained within six months
prior tJaereto a certificate from a licensed, registered
medical physician that he is free from venereal disease of
any kind; or, if suffering from such disease, that he is
under active treatment for the same.
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SECTION 3. That it shall be unlawful for any
person to employ any person to perform any of the services or
occupations mentioned in Section 2 of this Ordinance without
requiring such person to exhibit to him such certificate as
mentioned in Section 2 above.
SECTION 4. That the City shall furnish free to all
licensed, registered physicians practicing in the City,
forms to be used by them in making the certificates men-
tioned in this Ordinance, which said certificates shall be
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made in duplicate, and one copy deposited with the City
Clerk, and retained by him in an alphabetical file to be
kept by him; one copy is to be given the applicant to
keep. All certificates shall expire six months after
their date.
SECTION 5. Any person who shall violate any of the
provisions of this Ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof,
be punished by a fine of not more than Twenty-five dollars,
or by imprisonment for not more than ten days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Mayor.
SECTION 6. This ordinance shall go into effect on
Januar.y 1, 1940.
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Passed by the Council at a regular meeting held on December
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5, 1939~/
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City Clerk
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Received and approved by me this 5th day of December, 1939.
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Mayor