MEAT (7-40-065 et seq.)

Municipal Code of Chicago tit. 7, ch. 7-40, art. II

in effect

Municipal Code of Chicago § 7-40-065 Compliance required - Inspections.

7-40-065 Compliance required - Inspections. All meats and meat-food products sold or held for sale within the City of Chicago shall comply with the standards, requirements and regulations of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Illinois Department of Agriculture, and the rules of the Department of Health. The Department of Health shall make such inspections as are necessary to ensure compliance with this section. (Amend Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 6-10-96, p. 23652; Amend Coun. J. 12-13-17, p. 63286, § 4)

Municipal Code of Chicago § 7-40-070 Department of Agriculture inspection - Required.

7-40-070 Department of Agriculture inspection - Required. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell within the city or for any dealer in meats or any manufacturer of meat-food products to purchase, accept, hold or store within the city any carcass of cattle, sheep, swine or goats, or any meat-food products thereof, unless they shall have been inspected and passed by a duly authorized inspection of the United States Department of Agriculture or the Illinois Department of Agriculture. (Amend Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 6-10-96, p. 23652; Amend Coun. J. 12-13-17, p. 63286, § 4)

Municipal Code of Chicago § 7-40-075 Condition of meat.

7-40-075 Condition of meat. No person shall bring or cause to be brought into or sold in any public or private market within the city any meat or any dead animal, the flesh of which is intended to be used for food, until such meat or such dead animal shall have been fully and properly cooled and until all blood shall have ceased dripping therefrom. Nor shall any person bring or cause to be brought into any such public or private market in the city any dead animal intended to be used for food unless the hide, horns, feet, head and entrails shall have been removed therefrom, nor bring or cause to be brought into such market any gut fat or any unwholesome or offensive matter or thing; provided, that this section shall not be construed as relating to poultry, game or fish. (Amend Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 6-10-96, p. 23652)

Municipal Code of Chicago § 7-40-080 Immature calves, pigs and lambs - Sales restrictions.

7-40-080 Immature calves, pigs and lambs - Sales restrictions. No person shall bring into or sell in the city for food any calf or any part of the meat thereof which at the time it was killed was less than four weeks old, or any pig or any part of the meat thereof which at the time it was killed was less than five weeks old, or any lamb or any part of the meat thereof which at the time it was killed was less than eight weeks old. (Amend Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 6-10-96, p. 23652)

Municipal Code of Chicago § 7-40-085 Markets and stables - Sanitary requirements.

7-40-085 Markets and stables - Sanitary requirements. Every keeper of a meat market, or dealer in meats, and every person owning, leasing or occupying any place, room or building where any cattle are killed or dressed, and every person being the owner, lessee or occupant of any room or stable where any cattle may be kept, shall cause such place, room, building, stall or market, and its yards and appurtenances, to be thoroughly cleansed and purified, and all offal, blood, fat, garbage, refuse and unwholesome or offensive matter to be removed therefrom at least once in every 24 hours after the use thereof for any of the purposes herein referred to; and shall also at all times keep all woodwork, except floors and counters, in any building, place or premises aforesaid, thoroughly painted or whitewashed. (Amend Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 6-10-96, p. 23652)

Municipal Code of Chicago § 7-40-090 Reserved. Editor’s note – Coun. J. 12-13-17, p. 63286, § 4, repealed § 7-40-090, which pertained to sale of canned poultry.

Source: City of Chicago, Municipal Code of Chicago (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/chicago/latest/chicago_il/0-0-0-2642670Fetched: 10/24/2026