(a) In enforcing the provisions of this Ordinance, the City Manager, or his duly authorized representative, bearing proper credentials and identification may at any reasonable hour enter upon any premises. No person shall obstruct, hamper or interfere with him while performing these duties. The City Manager may enter private property to:
(1) Determine the size, depth and location of any connection with a public sewer or public storm drain.
(2) Inspect, test and sample the discharge of any device used to prevent the discharge into any sewer, storm drain or watercourse of waste prohibited by this section;
(3) Examine and copy records of wastewater discharges into any public sewer, public storm drain or water course;
(4) Determine the location of roof, swimming pool and surface drains and whether they are connected to a street gutter, storm drain or sewer;
(5) Determine the nature and quantity of flow in any open watercourse or storm drain;
(6) Determine whether there is a violation of the provisions of this section; and
(7) Exercise any other powers vested in him by this section.
(b) The City shall reserve the right to inspect any sewer contributing flow to the City collection system suspected of being in violation of this Ordinance. Such inspection shall be made after proper notification to the potential violating entity. If the subject entity is determined to be in violation of proper maintenance, the cost of the inspection shall be borne by the violating entity. Also, the City shall notify the subject entity that they are in violation of proper maintenance and shall further stipulate a reasonable time period for correcting the violation.
(c) The City Manager may inspect, as often as he may deem necessary, every public sewer, sewage pumping plant, sewage or industrial waste treatment plant or facility, industrial connection sewer, interceptor, dilution basin, neutralization basin or other similar appurtenance, to ascertain whether such facilities are maintained and operated in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
(d) No person shall install, construct or place any permanent or temporary object or structure where it will interfere with ready and easy access to any pretreatment or treatment facility, sampling compartment, manhole, flow metering device, or any instrumentality for which a permit is required by this section. Any such obstruction shall be removed upon order of the City Manager by the person responsible for it at no expense to the City.
(e) When the City Engineer or Superintendent of the Waste Water Treatment Plant is satisfied that all work done under a permit issued pursuant to this Ordinance has been constructed according to and meets the requirements of this Code and such other provisions of law as may be applicable, and that all fees have been paid, he shall, upon request thereof, issue to the permittee constructing such work a certificate of final inspection, which shall recite that the work covered by the permit has been constructed according to this section and is approved.
(f) When the City Manager is satisfied that all work done to rectify a violation is completed he shall reserve the right to inspect the work to see that it conforms to the requirements of this Ordinance and other such provisions of law as may be applicable.
(g) All fees received by the City under this section shall be deposited in a sewer fund to be maintained by the City Treasurer.
(Ord. 2016-50. Passed 3-21-2016.)