N.Y. Public Health Law § 1351: Food places; duty to permit inspections

§ 1351. Food places; duty to permit inspections. Every owner,

operator, lessor, lessee or person in charge of any hotel, restaurant,

dining room, dining car, drug store, soda fountain, steamboat or other

place engaged in the preparation, sale or service of food for and to the

general public, and every officer or other person in charge of any

public, penal or charitable institution in this state, shall permit the

commissioner or his duly authorized agents or employees to have access

to all parts of any and all of such places herein mentioned wherein food

is stored, prepared or served for the purpose of ascertaining whether

the provisions of sections thirteen hundred fifty to thirteen hundred

fifty-two, inclusive, of this chapter, and the provisions of the

sanitary code and provisions of local ordinances or regulations are

being observed.