Well, there's a pick your battles thing here. Every municipality has some law like "the commissioner may inspect the premises at any time for violations of code

Well, there's a pick your battles thing here. Every municipality has some law like "the commissioner may inspect the premises at any time for violations of code", etc. Those provisions are unconstitutional but as a practical matter are not the genesis of a police state. There are a lot of bugs in the law, so we should probably prioritize the most severe runtime errors.