(a) Persons or occupants of premises where wastewater is created or discharged shall allow the City or its representatives ready access at all reasonable times to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurements, sampling and testing in the performance of any of their duties. The City shall have the right to set up on a user's property, in locations that will not interfere with the user's operations and where the user's products will not become damaged or contaminated, such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling or metering operations, and to inquire into any industrial process to the extent necessary to establish the source, quantity, composition and concentration of the wastewater. When necessary, the user shall make arrangements with its security force, using procedures as might be reasonable, to allow for entry without delay by the City representatives for the purpose of performing their specific responsibilities. The City may examine and/or copy records pertaining to discharges into the City sewerage system and pertaining to persons or occupants of premises where wastewater is created or discharged.
(b) A person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 1040.99(a).
(Ord. 14-01. Passed 10-16-01.)