927.04 PERMITS AND INSPECTIONS.
   (a)   Connection Charge, Permits and Inspection Fee. Charges, permits and inspection fees shall be in accordance with current City law.
   (b)   Tampering With or Damaging Works Prohibited. No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the wastewater treatment works. Whoever violates this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest under charge of disorderly conduct.
   (c)   Notice to Correct or Cease Violation. Whoever violates any provision of this chapter, except as noted above, shall be served by the City with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. The offender shall, within a period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
   (d)   Powers and Authority of Inspectors. Employees of the City duly authorized by the City and bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing pertinent to discharge to the wastewater treatment works in accordance with the provision of this chapter. The authorized employees of the City are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial or commercial processes which have a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the wastewater treatment works. A user may withhold information considered confidential. A user must establish that the revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors.
   While performing the necessary work on private properties, the authorized employees of the City shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the owner, and the owner shall be held harmless for injury or death to the City employees, and the City shall indemnify the owner against loss or damage to its property by City employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damaged asserted against the owner and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the owner to maintain safe conditions.
(Ord. 66-1987. Passed 12-7-87.)