The Health Commissioner or any authorized Board of Health representative shall be permitted to investigate the correctness or accuracy of the statements filed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and for that purpose shall have access at all times to all books and documents of dealers and distributors located within the City, bearing on the amount of milk, milk products, or ice cream received or sold by any milk dealer or ice cream dealer whose products are distributed in the City. The information so obtained by representatives of the Board of Health from such investigation of the books and accounts of any milk or ice cream dealers shall not be divulged or made public except as follows:
(a) The information may be furnished to other public administrative officials in the regular course of their official duties.
(b) The information obtained may be statistically handled and published in the form of general statistical studies or data, in which the identity of the persons furnishing the information and the person, firms or corporations from whom it was obtained shall not be disclosed.
(c) The information may be offered as evidence by the Health Commissioner or any duly authorized subordinate in any civil action at law for the collection or inspection and/or laboratory bacteriological examination fee or in any administrative hearing held pursuant to the provisions of the sections of the Health Regulations dealing with milk inspection and milk inspection fees.
(Ord. 29-1957. Passed 3-12-57.)