(A) Duly authorized employees of the city, the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, the state’s Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 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 this chapter. The city representatives shall have no authority to inquire into any process, including metallurgical, chemical, oil refining, ceramic, paper or other industry beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to sewers, waterways or facilities for waste treatment.
(B) While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in division (A) of this section, the employees of the city, the MSDGC, the state’s EPA and the U.S. EPA 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 city employees. The city shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by employees and 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 may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in § 52.005.
(C) 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.
(2000 Code, § 13.08.120)