N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 1351
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.
N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 1351