By applying for or receiving a municipal utility service, a customer irrevocably consents and agrees that any city employee acting within the course and scope of his or her employment may enter into and upon the private property of the customer, including dwellings and other buildings, in accordance with § 10.20, at all reasonable times under those circumstances in or upon which private property a municipal utility, or connection therewith, is installed, for the purpose of inspecting, repairing, connecting or disconnecting the municipal utility service.
(1989 Code, § 3.04, Subd. 5)