68-15-105 - Clothing and goods transported into this state reportedly manufactured under unhealthy conditions to be inspected, condemned, and disinfected. - Tennessee Statutes

68-15-105. Clothing and goods transported into this state reportedly manufactured under unhealthy conditions to be inspected, condemned, and disinfected.

Whenever it is reported to the commissioner of health, or to the board of health, that coats, vests, trousers, knee pants, overalls, cloaks, skirts, ladies waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers, or cigars are being transported to this state, having been previously manufactured in whole or in part under unhealthy conditions, the commissioner or the commissioner's deputies shall examine the goods and the condition of their manufacture and if, upon such examination, the goods or any part of them are found to contain vermin or to have been made in improper places, or under unhealthy conditions, the commissioner shall report to the board of health, which board shall thereupon make such order or orders as the public health requires. The board of health is empowered to condemn and disinfect all such articles.

[Acts 1915, ch. 28, § 3; Shan., § 3473a80; Code 1932, § 6636; impl. am. Acts 1972, ch. 561, § 24; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 53-2204.]