(a) The City Engineer shall inspect the facilities of any user to ascertain whether the purpose of this chapter is being met and all requirements are being complied with. Persons or occupants of premises where wastewater is created or discharged shall allow the City Engineer ready access at all reasonable times to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, testing, record examination or in the performance of any of his duties. The City Engineer, OEPA and U.S. EPA shall have the right to set up on the user's property such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling, inspection, compliance monitoring and/or metering operations. Where a user has security measures in force which would require proper identification and clearance before entry into their premises, the user shall make necessary arrangements with any security guards so that upon presentation of suitable identification, the City Engineer, OEPA and U.S. EPA shall be permitted to enter, without delay, for the purposes of performing their specific responsibilities.
(b) The City Engineer shall have no authority to inquire into any industrial processes beyond that point in the process having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers or waterways or facilities for treatment.
(c) While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in subsections (a) and (b) hereof, the City Engineer shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company.
(d) The City Engineer, 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 wastewater disposal system 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.
(Ord. 98-84. Passed 9-17-1984.)