(A) The safety-service director, city engineer, or their representatives, shall be empowered to enter upon any premises or properties, public or private, for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing of waters, wastes, or substances being discharged into the sewer system, or of pipes, connections, equipment, or other facilities utilized in the discharge of these waters, wastes, and substances into the sewer system.
(B) The safety-service director, city engineer, or their representatives, may make whatever tests or samplings they deem necessary to determine the nature or content of waters, wastes, and substances being discharged into the sewer system, or their effect upon the pipes, equipment, or facilities of the sewer system, and, in addition, they may, as they deem necessary, engage testing laboratories for these purposes. The services of such testing laboratories shall be paid for by the person, establishment, or owner as to which such tests are made.
(C) The safety-service director shall be authorized and empowered to determine and prescribe the measures, means, or procedures which he deems necessary to prevent damage to the sewage system of the city, or hazard to human beings or animals. Such determination shall be communicated in writing to the person, owner, or establishment that has discharged, or is about to discharge, waters, wastes, or substances into the sewage system which could cause damage to the sewers or hazard to human beings or animals. Thereupon, such person, owner, or establishment shall proceed with the measures prescribed by the safety-service director.
(D) The written notice provided for in § 51.04 of this chapter to be given by the safety- service director to a person, establishment, or owner shall be served by personal delivery, or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the last known business address, if served upon a business, or at the last known residence address, if not served upon a business. The notice shall state further that the corrective measures specified therein shall be taken or commenced not later than 10 days following delivery of the notice. If commenced within the 10-day period, the corrective measures shall be completed with due diligence.
(E) However, such person, establishment, or owner shall not be relieved or released from compliance with the provisions of this chapter, either during the 10-day period or during the installation or construction of the corrective measures. Instead, such measures must be taken to prevent violation or continued violation of this chapter as are satisfactory to the safety-service director.
('73 Code, § 51.04) Penalty, see § 51.99