(a) The City may inspect the pretreatment and/or the monitoring facilities of any discharger to determine compliance with the requirements of this chapter. The discharger shall allow the City or its representatives, upon presentation of credentials of identification, to enter upon the premises of the discharger at all reasonable hours for the purposes of inspection, sampling or records examination, including the authority to copy records of the industrial user. The City shall have the right to set up on the discharger's property such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling, inspection, compliance monitoring and/or metering operations.
(b) The City 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, repair, sampling and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater works lying within such easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on such easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
(c) While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to hereof, the City shall observe all 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 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.
(e) Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and easy access to the facility to be inspected and/or sampled shall be promptly removed by the user at the written or verbal request of the City and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be born by the user.
(f) Unreasonable delays in allowing the City access to the user's premises shall be a violation of this chapter.