California Code, Financial Code - FIN § 18390

For the purpose of discovering violations of this division or securing information required, the commissioner may at any time investigate the affairs and examine the books, accounts, records, and files of every corporation engaged in the business of an industrial loan company or broker, or its holding company or affiliates, whether such corporation acts or claims to act as principal or agent, or under or without the authority of this division. For the purposes of examination and investigation, the commissioner and the commissioner's duly designated representatives shall have free access to the offices and places of business, books, accounts, papers, records, files, safes and vaults of all such corporations and their holding companies or affiliates.