(A) Each person, by virtue of making application or request to the city for any utility service or receiving or using any city utility service, thereby grants or causes to be granted to the city, without additional cost or consideration, all rights, easements, permits, licenses, and privileges that are deemed necessary by the city for the establishment, rendering, maintenance, termination, disconnection, or reconnection of utility services. Pursuant to said authority, the appropriate Public Works Department official and other duly-authorized employees of the city 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, at all reasonable or necessary times.
(B) The Public Works Department 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 purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works 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. 118, passed 10-23-80; Am. Ord. 1518, passed 11-6-14)