For the purpose of discharging their duties and enforcing the requirements of the laws of the State, the Charter and ordinances of the City, rules and regulations affecting the public health or any writ, notice or order issued by the Director of Health and Environment in relation to the sanitary affairs of the City, and in order to secure or preserve the public health, the Director of Health and Environment, or his agent or any sanitarian or police officer, shall be permitted at all times to enter upon any lot or into any property, house, building, vessel, stall or other place and to cause the floor or other parts of structures to be raised or removed if it shall be deemed necessary, in order to make a thorough examination and inspection of apartments, lodgings, workshops, sewers, drains, vaults, cellars, cesspools, water closets, earth closets, cisterns, wells, privy vaults, yards and grounds of such premises, and to examine the condition of the persons inhabiting or occupying such premises or working therein, or for the purpose of investigating any potential health problems including, but not limited to, examining and inspecting any animal, carcass, meat, poultry, game, flesh or fish, or other article intended for the food of humans, which may be therein; but their object in doing so must be first stated to the occupants, laborers, owners, agents or other persons having control of such premises or place, and all unreasonable annoyance of them shall be carefully avoided.
(Ord. 670-91. Passed 9-3-91.)