(a) (1) The owner of any building, structure or property that has connected such building, structure or property to a public sewer shall grant the director of public works and any other duly authorized representative of the village, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Environmental Agency, bearing proper credential and identification, permission to enter upon the owner's property for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing to determine whether such connection to the public sewer is in accordance with village standards. Where no permission has been granted to enter or inspect any property, no entry or inspection shall be made without the procurement of a warrant from the Circuit Court of Cook County. The court may consider any of the following factors along with such other matters as it deems pertinent in its decision as to whether a warrant shall issue:
A. Eyewitness account of violation;
B. Citizen complaints;
C. Tenant complaints;
D. Plain view violations;
E. Violations apparent from village records;
F. Property deterioration;
G. Age of property;
H. Nature of alleged violation;
I. Similar properties in the area;
J. Documented violations of similar properties in the area;
K. Passage of time since last inspection; and
L. Previous violations on the property.
(2) Cause for issuance of a warrant shall be deemed to exist in light of reasonable legislative and administrative standards that show that there is reason to believe that a condition of nonconformity exists with respect to a particular property in violation of the village code.
(b) The director of public works or his or her representative shall have no authority to inquire into any processes, including metallurgical, chemical, oil refining, ceramic, paper or other industries beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers or waterway or facilities for waste treatment.
(Ord. No. 91-7-1848)