Ok folks, Mort got me searching and I found this:
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§ 223. Refusal, by owners, proprietors, etc., to assist census employees[/h2]
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Whoever, being the owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, acting under the instructions of the Secretary, to furnish the names of the occupants of such premises, or to give free ingress thereto and egress therefrom to any duly accredited representative of such Department or bureau or agency thereof, so as to permit the collection of statistics with respect to any census provided for in subchapters I and II of chapter
5 of this title, or any survey authorized by subchapter IV or V of such chapter insofar as such survey relates to any of the subjects for which censuses are provided by such subchapters I and II, including, when relevant to the census or survey being taken or made, the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in such premises, shall be fined not more than $500.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/13/usc_sec_13_00000223----000-.html (directed to this site from a link on the census. gov site.
So while homeowners do not have to allow census takers into their homes (stated on the gov site)
we must allow them entry and if asked, to provide the names of occupants. (this wording differs in regard those 'staying' in your home as was posted by Mort)
So now my question is what is 'free ingress thereto' actually mean in this sense? Just entry or free to roam about?
Mort - thanks for making me dig!!!.