N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 47: Care and feed of cows, and care and keeping of milk

§ 47. Care and feed of cows, and care and keeping of milk. No person

shall keep cows, for the production of milk for market or for sale or

exchange, or for manufacturing the milk or cream from the same into any

article of food, in a crowded or unhealthy condition or in unhealthful

or unsanitary surroundings and no person shall keep such cows or the

product therefrom in such condition or surroundings or in such places as

shall cause or tend to cause the produce from such cows to be in an

unclean, unhealthful or diseased condition, if the produce from such

cows is to be sold, offered or exposed for sale upon the markets for

consumption or to be manufactured into any food product, nor shall such

cows or the produce therefrom be handled or cared for by any person

suffering with or affected by an infectious or contagious disease, nor

shall any such cows be fed on any substance that is in a state of

putrefaction or fermentation, or upon any food that is unhealthful or

that produces or may produce impure, unhealthful, diseased or

unwholesome milk. But this section shall not be construed to prohibit

the feeding of ensilage.

No person having milk in his possession for the purpose of selling the

same for consumption as such or for manufacturing the same into butter,

cheese, evaporated or condensed milk or other food shall keep the same

in utensils, cans, vessels, rooms or buildings that are unclean or have

insanitary surroundings or drainage or in any condition whatsoever that

would tend to produce or promote conditions favorable to unhealthfulness

or disease. The commissioner shall notify all persons violating this

section to clean said utensils, cans, vessels, rooms or buildings or to

so improve the sanitary conditions that the foregoing provisions will

not be violated; and if such notice is complied with within ten days no

presecution, civil or criminal, for a violation of this section shall be

instituted.