§ 605-7. Inspection of Books.

The health commissioner or any authorized subordinate shall be permitted, at any reasonable time, to investigate the correctness or accuracy of the statements filed in accordance with Sections 605-3 and 605-5 and for that purpose shall have access at all reasonable times to all books and documents of dealers and distributors bearing on the amount of milk, milk products or ice cream received or sold by any milk dealer, ice cream dealer or distributor whose products are distributed in the city of Cincinnati. The information so obtained by the officers and employees of the board of health from such investigation of the books and accounts of any milk or ice cream dealer shall not be divulged or made public except as follows:

(a)

The information may be furnished to other public administration 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 persons, 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 of inspection fees or in any administrative hearing held pursuant to the provisions of the sections of the Cincinnati Municipal Code dealing with milk inspection and milk inspection fees.

(Sec. 605-7; ordained by Ord. No. 279-1968, eff. July 12, 1968; reordained as C.M.C. 605-7, eff. Jan. 1, 1972)

Analogous to C.O. 605-19; r. Ord. No. 279-1968, eff. July 12, 1968.

Cross reference

Penalty, § 605-99.