2013 New York Consolidated Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 5 - (40 - 55) COLLATERAL LOAN BROKERS
45 - Book to be open to inspection.

 
    §  45.  Book  to  be open to inspection. The said book and any and all
  other books and records regularly kept by such  collateral  loan  broker
  shall  at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of the attorney
  general, the state comptroller, the mayor or local licensing  authority,
  all  judges of the criminal courts, the superintendent of police, police
  inspectors, captains of police and police justices of  such  cities,  or
  any  or either of them, or of any person who shall be duly authorized in
  writing for that purpose by any or either of them, and who shall exhibit
  such written authority to such collateral loan broker. The mayor or  the
  licensing  authority of any local governing body, the state comptroller,
  the attorney general and any person duly authorized by them  shall  have
  the  power  to  administer  oaths  and  to  examine  under oath any such
  collateral loan broker or any officer, or agent, of such collateral loan
  broker and any other person having custody or control of such books  and
  records.  Such  books and records shall be retained in the possession of
  the collateral loan broker, in good condition and in an orderly  fashion
  for at least a period of six years.