(a) The discharger shall allow the Service Director or his duly authorized employees bearing proper credentials and identification to enter upon the premises of the discharger during any reasonable hour for the purposes of inspection, sampling and records examinations and copying to determine compliance with the requirements of this chapter. Where the industry has security measures in force which require proper identification and clearance before entry, the discharger shall make necessary arrangements so that the Service Director or his representative will be permitted entry without delay. The City shall have the right to set up on the discharger's property necessary devices to conduct sampling, inspection, compliance monitoring, metering operations or all of these.
(b) While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in subsection (a) hereof, the Service Director, Building Commissioner and City Engineer or duly authorized employee of the City shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the owner, and the owner shall be held harmless for injury or death to the City employees and the City shall indemnify the owner against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in Section 911.12 (g).
(c) The Service Director, Building Commissioner and City Engineer 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 purpose of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works 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. 2017-83. Passed 12-19-17.)
(Ord. 2017-83. Passed 12-19-17.)