Search warrants shall not be required under the following circumstances.
(A) When permission to inspect the premises has been granted by someone with apparent charge or control of those premises. For the purpose of this paragraph, permission to inspect may be granted either verbally, in writing or by some other action indicating consent.
(B) When there exists an imminent danger or peril to human life, limb or property and any delays resulting from the application for a search warrant would materially increase the likelihood of loss from such danger or peril.
(C) When the inspection can be executed by a person who is an invitee on premises held open to the general public. For the purposes of this division (C), a person ceases to be an invitee when he/she has been instructed to leave the premises or otherwise terminate his/her inspection by someone having charge or control of those premises.
(D) When the inspection can be executed from public property or adjacent private property with the permission of someone with apparent charge or control of such adjacent private property.
(E) When the inspection is an open fields inspection of or from an unoccupied or undeveloped area.
(Ord. 1197, passed 3-9-98)