196.240. Authorization by director to close health menace. - Missouri Statutes

Authorization by director to close health menace.

196.240. It shall be the duty of the director of the department ofhealth and senior services, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, toclose any market place, grocery store, general store, bakery, confectionery,butcher shop, slaughterhouse, dining car, refrigerator car, cold storage plantor warehouse, hotel dining room or kitchen, cafe, restaurant, lunch counter,drug store, or any other place, or places, where articles or commoditiesintended for human food, or for human consumption as medicine, aremanufactured, sold, stored or prepared for sale, or wherever food and drink isserved, where such places shall, in the judgment of said director, constitutea menace to the public health, by reason of dirt, filth, or other insanitarycause.

(RSMo 1939 § 9898)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 13049; 1919 § 5695