CHAP. 174.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1204 of the Code of Virginia
relating to sterilization of certain containers. [H B 326}

Approved March 12, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That section twelve hundred four of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 1204. Cans and other receptacles used as containers of
milk, cream and ice cream, must be ‘clean; penalty for violation —No
person, company, or corporation shall furnish or provide any can or
other receptacle used for the purpose of transporting milk, cream or ice
cream intended for human consumption or for manufacture into a prod-
uct for human consumption, nor shall any person, company or corporation
use any cans or other receptacles for the purpose of transporting milk,
cream or ice cream intended for human consumption or for the manu-
facture into a product for human consumption, unless such can or other
receptacle and the cover or stopple thereto be thoroughly cleansed and
sterilized by the use of hot water or steam, or both hot water and steam,
before such can or other receptacle is delivered to the person who is to fill
same, or before such can or other receptacle is used for the purpose of
transporting mille, cream or ice cream, as above set out.

Every person, company or corporation who receives milk, cream or
ice cream, which is delivered in cans, bottles or other receptacles shall
thoroughly cleanse and sterilize such receptacle with hot water or steam,
or both hot water and steam, as soon as practicable after the contents
are removed, and before such receptacles are returned to the shippers or
persons from whom the same were received; provided, that when milk,
cream and ice cream is delivered in bottles and cans to school cafeterias,
confectioneries and similar eating places which are not adequately pro-
vided with boiling water or live steam for the purpose of sterilization, in
lieu of sterilization by the use of boiling water or live steam such bottles,
cans, et cetera, may be cleansed with clean warm water and rinsed in a
chlorine solution of one hundred parts per million of available chlorine.

Any person who is convicted for violating any of the provisions of
this section shall be fined the sum of five dollars for each bottle, can or
other receptacle furnished or used which has not been cleansed and
sterilized as herein provided.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.