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33.09 Oleomargarine, serving as butter.

It shall be unlawful for the proprietor of any hotel, dining room, dining car, drinking place, cafe, bakery, boat, lumber camp, mining camp, railroad camp, boarding house, or hospital, or any place where guests, boarders, or patients are served with food for pay, or for any managing agent or servant of such proprietor, to serve as or for butter, or as a substitute thereof, any oleaginous substance or compound other than that produced wholly from pure, unadulterated milk or cream, unless there is plainly printed in English upon every bill of fare, if one be used, and in letters not smaller than 8-point bold-faced Gothic capitals, the words "oleomargarine used in place of butter," and in case no bill of fare be used, the manager or person in charge of the establishment shall cause to be posted upon each side of the dining car or eating room, in a conspicuous position and in letters large enough to be distinctly seen and read from all parts of the room, placards containing on the face thereof the words, in the English language, "oleomargarine used in place of butter," and such person shall keep such placards continuously posted, as long as such butter substitute be kept or used.

HIST: (3855-6) 1931 c 344 s 6; 1986 c 444

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