Authority to regulate the sale, etc., of fruits and vegetables.
Memphis Charter, art. 46, § 431
in effectSec. 431. - Authority to regulate the sale, etc., of fruits and vegetables.
The Board of Commissioners and/or other legislative councils or governing bodies of such taxing districts, in addition to all other powers now delegated or provided, shall have full power and authority to provide and establish adequate inspection service as to any or all fruits and vegetables intended for human consumption in the City of Memphis, to regulate, and to provide for, inspection of any or all fruits and vegetables intended for human consumption in the City of Memphis sold, offered or exposed for sale, in the City, whether at wholesale, at retail, or either, or otherwise; to regulate, and to provide for the inspection of any establishment, grocery, public and private market, lot, storeroom, building, structure, warehouse, freight car, office, stall, stand, car booth, truck, trailer, wagon or other vehicle, or other place where such fruits and vegetables or [are] kept, stored, packed, transported, sold, exposed or offered for sale; to regulate, to require and provide for, the licensing of any building, public and private market, or other place set forth immediately above, where such fruits and vegetables are kept, stored, packed, transported, sold, exposed or offered for sale; to impose inspection fee or fees for inspection, and to designate the place or places, time or times therefor; to regulate and prescribe the manner and conditions under which such fruits and vegetables shall be kept, stored, packed, labeled, transported, sold, exposed or offered for sale, and inspected; to require, regulate and provide for the licensing of any person, partnership, firm, corporation, association, cooperative marketing association, selling, exposing or offering for sale such fruits and vegetables, as commission merchant, wholesaler, producer, retailer, huckster, peddler, itinerant, grocer, broker, agents or otherwise within the City of Memphis, and to impose license fees therefor; to prohibit the sale or exposure for sale in said City of any such fruits and vegetables which may not have been inspected, kept, stored, packed, labeled or transported in accordance with regulations prescribed or adopted by the governing authorities or agencies of said City, or which may be sold or offered for sale in some place or by some such person in said City not inspected and licensed in accordance with such regulations; to acquire by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise, and to establish and equip depots and inspection facilities in said City; to provide penalties for violation of regulations; to require the keeping and submission of books, records and reports in regard to the sales, quality and kind of such fruits and vegetables; to provide for City inspectors and to fix their compensation; and to make such other regulation as may appear to the said governing authorities or agencies of the City of Memphis to be necessary in order to carry out the purposes of this Act, in the interest of, and for the protection and preservation of, the public health, safety, and general welfare in the City of Memphis.
(Priv. Acts 1939, ch. 211, § 1)
Source: City of Memphis, Code of Ordinances and Charter and Related Laws (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/tn/memphis/codes/charter?nodeId=PTICHRELA_ART46PUHE_S431AURESAETFRVEFetched: 10/28/2026