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31A.25 ACCESS BY INSPECTORS.
To get information about suspected violations of law, the commissioner and the
commissioner's assistants, inspectors, appointees, agents and employees must be given access to
the following:
(1) places where food or something else, the manufacture, sale, use, or transportation of
which is restricted, regulated, or prohibited by a law of this state, is or may be manufactured,
prepared, stored, sold, used, transported, offered for sale or transportation, or had in possession
with intent to use, sell, or transport, or where cows or other animals are pastured or stabled;
(2) cars or other carriages used to transport the articles or animals; and
(3) places where food is or may be cooked, prepared, sold, or kept for sale to or for the public
or distributed as a part of the compensation of an employee or agent, including public and private
hospitals, lumber and railroad camps, inns, boarding and eating houses, drinking places, dining
cars, boats, and other places where any of these articles may be manufactured, sold, used, offered
for sale or transportation, or possessed with intent to use, sell, or transport.
They may inspect a package, receptacle, or container found in those places apparently
containing food, a food ingredient, or something else the manufacture, use, sale, or transportation
of which is restricted, regulated, or forbidden by state law, and may take samples from it for
analysis. A person obstructing entry or inspection, or failing upon request to assist in the
inspection, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
History: 1969 c 225 s 25; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 2 s 1

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