(A) (1) Duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties at all reasonable times, absent emergency conditions, for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing pertinent to discharge to any public sewer or natural outlet in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(2) Sampling pertaining to industry will reflect the number of days an industry is not operating as well as the days in operation and discharging waste to a public sewer.
(B) The approving authority or other duly authorized employees are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes which have a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the waste water collection system. The industry may withhold information considered confidential. 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, duly authorized employees of the city shall observe safety rules applicable to the premises 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 by city employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury, or property damage asserted against the company and 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 § 54.22.
(D) 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 purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the waste water facilities lying within the easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on the easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
(Ord. 201, passed 12-7-1988)