(A) The Superintendent, other duly authorized employees of the city, and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The Superintendent or his representative shall have no authority to inquire into any processes, including metallurgical, chemical, oil refining, ceramic, paper or other industries beyond that point having direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers or waterway or facilities for waste treatment.
(B) While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in division (A) above, the Superintendent or duly authorized employees of the city, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 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's employees and the city shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by the city's 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 operations, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain conditions as required in § 51.066.
(C) 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 observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works lying within said easement. 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.
(D) Any property owner who refuses to permit the entry of a duly authorized employee of the city for the purpose of inspecting sanitation sewer facilities on his or her property shall be subject to a fine as set forth in § 10.99 and to termination of water service at the location where right of entry is refused.
('71 Code, § 8-6-7) (Ord. 2566, passed 4-28-86; Am. Ord. 3053, passed 4-22-96)