§ 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.