172.1 Definitions.

For the purpose of this chapter:

1. "Food" shall include any article used by humans for food, drink, confectionery or condiment, or which enters into the composition of the same whether simple, blended, mixed or compounded.

2. "Frozen food locker plant" shall mean a location or establishment in which space in individual lockers is rented to persons for storage of frozen food and is equipped with a chill room, sharp freezing facilities and facilities for cutting, preparing, wrapping and packaging meats and meat products, fruits and vegetables.

"Branch frozen food locker plant" shall mean a location or establishment in which space in individual lockers is rented to persons for storage of frozen food after preparation for storage at a frozen food locker plant.

3. "Sharp frozen" shall mean the freezing of food in a room in which the temperature is zero or below.

172.10 Frozen food locker operators or owners not warehouse operators.

Persons who own or operate frozen food locker plants or branch plants shall not be construed to be warehouse operators, nor shall receipts or other instruments issued by such persons in the ordinary conduct of their business be construed to be negotiable warehouse receipts.

172.11 Penalties.

Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor.

172.2 License.

No person shall engage in the operation of a frozen food locker plant or a branch frozen food locker plant until the person has obtained a separate license from the department for each such location or establishment. Application for such license or licenses shall be made upon forms furnished by the department and shall contain the items required by it as to ownership, management, location, equipment, and other data concerning the business for which each license is desired.

172.3 Examination of plant.

Upon receipt of an application for a license for a new plant accompanied by the required fee, the department shall inspect within thirty days the plant or branch plant, its equipment, facilities, surrounding premises, and if its operations comply with provisions of law and the authorized rules and regulations of the department applicable to such plants, the department shall issue such license.

172.4 License fee.

The license fee for each such plant or branch plant shall be ten dollars for two hundred or less individual lockers with an additional two dollars for each additional one hundred individual lockers or major fraction thereof in either a frozen food locker plant or branch frozen food locker plant. Each such license shall expire on December 31 of each year following the date of issue and no such license shall be transferable.

172.5 Other license coverage.

Repealed by 98 Acts, ch 1032, §10.

172.6 Storing of impure food.

No article of food shall be stored in any frozen food locker plant unless it is in a proper condition for storage and meets all the requirements of the pure food and food sanitation laws and such rules as may be established by the department for the sanitary preparation of food products which are to be stored.

172.7 Revocation of license.

Every frozen food locker plant shall be maintained in a sanitary condition and conducted with strict regard to the influence of such conditions upon the food handled therein and any licensee under this chapter who fails to comply with any provision of this chapter shall suffer a revocation of the license.

172.8 Goods not intended for human consumption.

Goods not intended for human consumption shall not be stored in a frozen food locker plant except such items of animal or vegetable matter which may have been inspected and approved by the United States government.

172.9 Food must be sharp frozen before storage.

All food must be sharp frozen before it shall be placed in a frozen food locker, and shall be kept at a temperature of 10° F. or lower during the period it is kept therein.