Stockton Municipal Code Ch. 8.76 Public Market

A public market is hereby established in the City, whereat any person who is the producer of any of the articles or products hereinafter in this section enumerated, and any merchant, or other person who maintains an established business in the City for the sale, at retail, of any of such articles or products, may attend, for the purpose of selling and furnishing to the general public, meat, meat food products, live and dressed poultry, fish, game, vegetables, fruit, butter, eggs and all farm and dairy products.

(Prior code § 7-034)

The public market shall be opened, conducted and maintained at such place or places in the City, and on such days and hours thereof, as the City Council of said City shall, by resolution, designate.

(Prior code § 7-035)

No license fee shall be charged to any person selling or offering or exposing for sale such articles or products at the place or places designated by said City Council to be a public market.

(Prior code § 7-036)

It is unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to sell, or offer for sale, any of the articles or products enumerated in Section 8.76.010, on any of the streets in the City, other than at the place or places specified by the City Council as the place or places where such market shall be conducted and maintained; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prohibit or prevent licensed peddlers or hawkers from selling, or offering to sell such products from house to house.

(Prior code § 7-037)

Said market shall, at all times during the hours the same shall remain open, be under the immediate supervision and control of a member of the police force who shall be detailed for that service by the Chief of Police. It shall be the duty of such officer in charge to maintain order in and about the public market and require that vendors and buyers therein observe peace and extend courtesy to the public and towards one another. He or she shall have full authority to place all wagons and designate the location and placing of the stands of the vendors.

(Prior code § 7-038)

It is unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to sell, or offer for sale, at such public market any of the food stuffs specified in Section 8.76.010, which are not in good and wholesome condition, free from disease or evidence of disease, or which are unfit for human consumption as food.

(Prior code § 7-039)

The public market shall, in matters pertaining to the care and quality of food articles, be subject to the control and supervision of the Milk and Food Inspector of the City. And, if an ordinance shall hereafter be adopted, providing for the inspection of meat and meat food products which shall be sold or exposed or offered for sale in said City, and the position of Meat Inspector be created by said ordinance, said public market shall, in matters pertaining to the care and quality of the food articles governed by said ordinance, be subject to the control and supervision of said Meat Inspector. It shall be the duty of said Milk and Food Inspector and said Meat Inspector, or either of them, or their deputies, to, and such officers, or either of them, shall confiscate and destroy any of the articles mentioned in Section 8.76.010, which shall be sold or exhibited for sale in said market, which are not in good and wholesome condition, free from disease or evidence of disease, or which are unfit for human consumption as food.

(Prior code § 7-040)

Any person who sells, offers or exposes for sale, or has in his or her possession articles of food that are unwholesome, diseased or unfit for human consumption as food, or who shall violate any of the provisions set forth herein or the rules made pursuant thereto, shall be deprived of the benefit and use of the public market for a period of one month and, upon a second offense, may be permanently expelled therefrom.

(Prior code § 7-041)

It is unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to sell or offer for sale any meat, meat food products, or dressed poultry, fish or game, unless the same be kept in a receptacle, in a clean and sanitary manner, and so constructed and maintained as to prevent any flies or other insects or any vermin or rodents from entering therein.

(Prior code § 7-042)

It is unlawful for any person affected with any communicable, contagious or infectious disease to work or be employed in handling, selling or offering for sale any of the articles mentioned in Section 8.76.010, and it is unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation so to employ, or permit to be employed, any such person.

(Prior code § 7-043)

No person handling or selling goods, or exhibiting goods for sale upon said market shall be allowed to solicit in a loud or boisterous manner on said market.

(Prior code § 7-044)

All weighing and measuring shall be done in full view of the purchaser and each purchaser shall be allowed to see the actual indication of weight on the scales, and all scales shall be so set that they shall be convenient for the purchasers to see the same. All products exhibited for sale in said market shall be placed at least 18 inches above the ground or pavement.

(Prior code § 7-045)

It is unlawful for any person to spit or expectorate on any sidewalk, street or other space which shall be designated by the City Council as a public market.

(Prior code § 7-046)

Every person selling upon said market shall be required, before removing from, or leaving the same, to remove all rubbish and refuse deposited upon the street or pavement by him or her, or from his or her stand, stall or wagon.

(Prior code § 7-047)

No dogs shall be allowed in those portions of the public streets or other places designated to be a public market during the hours said market shall remain open, nor shall any bicycle or motorcycle be allowed to remain in said places during said hours.

(Prior code § 7-048)