(A) The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter upon all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.
(B) The Superintendent or other duly authorized employees are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes which have a directed bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the wastewater collection system. The industry may withhold information considered confidential, and the industry must establish that the revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors.
(C) While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in division (A) above, the Superintendent or duly authorized employees of the city shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises as established by the company, and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the city employees, and the city shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property or to city employees and against liability, claims, and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company growing out of the gauging and sampling operation except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in § 52.27(H).
(D) (1) The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the city holds a duly negotiated easement for the purpose of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater facilities lying within said easement.
(2) All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
(Prior Code, § 11.0206)