§ 82-44. Food, etc., found unwholesome to be destroyed.
All articles of food or drink found by the department of health, through its officers, agents or employees, to be unwholesome or unfit for human consumption, whether in public or private markets, groceries or fruit stands and generally wherever stored, deposited, sold, exchanged, delivered or offered or exposed for sale, shall forthwith be taken charge of by the department, through its officers, agents or employees, and promptly destroyed without compensation to the owner or possessor thereof. But the department of health shall, upon request of the owner or person from whom such property is taken, issue a certificate of condemnation, showing the condition of such food or drink, in order that the property rights of all parties may be protected.
(Code 1956, § 26-28)