To ensure the health, welfare and safety of the citizens of the city, when a citizen of the city agrees to purchase utility services from the city, that citizen is deemed by the request of such service to grant the city and its officers and employees the reasonable and necessary access to such person’s private land for the purposes of maintaining, repairing, inspecting and operating the municipal utility service. Such access is granted only to city employees and officers while in performance of their official duties in furtherance of the operation, repair, inspection or maintenance of municipal utility transmission facilities that are owned or operated and maintained by the city. This section shall not be construed to impose any duty or responsibility on the city to maintain, repair or inspect the service owned by the other contracting party to a municipality utility service. Any person who refuses the terms set out in this section shall be guilty of violating this section and penalized according to the provisions of § 10.99 of this code.
(Prior Code, § C-3-6) Penalty, see § 10.99