N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 20-a: Search warrant in aid of the commissioner of agriculture

§ 20-a. Search warrant in aid of the commissioner of agriculture. A

search warrant, in the name of the people, directed to a police officer

commanding him to search for dairy products, imitations thereof and

substitutes therefor, to open any place of business, factory, building,

store, bakery, hotel, tavern, boarding house, restaurant, saloon, lunch

counter, place of public entertainment, carriage, car, boat, package,

vessel, barrel, box, tub or can, containing, or believed to contain the

same, in the possession or under the control of any person who shall

refuse to allow the same to be inspected or samples taken therefrom by

the commissioner of agriculture, a deputy commissioner or any person or

officer authorized by the commissioner or by the agriculture and markets

law or to which access is refused or prevented, and to allow and enable

the officer mentioned in section fifty-one of the agriculture and

markets law applying therefor to take such samples of dairy products,

imitations thereof and substitutes therefor, found in the execution of

the warrant, as the officer applying for the search warrant shall

designate when the same are found, shall be issued by any court to which

application is made therefor, whenever it shall be made to appear to

such court that such person has refused to permit any dairy products,

imitations thereof or substitutes therefor, to be inspected or samples

taken therefrom, or that access thereto by any officer mentioned in

section fifty-one of the agriculture and markets law has been refused or

prevented, and that such officer has reasonable grounds for believing

that such person has any dairy products, imitations thereof or

substitutes therefor in his possession, or under his control, or that he

is violating any of the provisions of the agriculture and markets law

relating thereto. The provisions of article six hundred ninety of the

criminal procedure law shall apply to such warrant as far as applicable

thereto. The officer to whom the warrant is delivered shall make a

return in writing of his proceedings thereunto to the court which issued

the same.