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.