(A) Enforcement officer. The Village Administrator or other agent so designated by the Village Board of Trustees is hereby authorized and directed to administer and enforce all of the provisions of this chapter. Whenever necessary, the Building Inspector, officials or staff of other departments of the village shall give assistance as is consistent with the usual duties of their respective departments.
(B) Permitted access to property. The Building Inspector, and other duly authorized employees of the village, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing as may be required in pursuance of the implementation and enforcement of the terms and provisions of this chapter.
(C) Limitations of authority. The Building Inspector 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 sanitary sewers or waterway or facilities for waste treatment.
(D) Safety rules observed and indemnification. While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in the above division, the Building Inspector, or duly authorized employees of the village, 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 village employees, and the village 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 operating, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain conditions as required by this chapter.
(E) Access onto easements. The Building Inspector and other duly authorized employees of the village bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the village holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, testing, 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, and subject to the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 18-04-01, passed 4-24-2018)