(A) (1) Duly authorized employees of the city shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Those employees shall have no authority to inquire into processes, including metallurgical, chemical, oil refining, ceramic, paper, or other industries, except as is necessary to determine the kind and source of the discharge to the public sewer.
(2) The duly authorized employees are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes which have a direct bearing on the type and source of discharge to the wastewater collection system. An industry may withhold information considered confidential; however, the industry must establish that the revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors.
(B) While performing the necessary work on private property as referred to in division (A) of this section, the authorized employees of the city shall observe all safety rules established by the company, the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the city employees, and the city shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by city 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 such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in § 51.063.
(C) Duly authorized employees of the city shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the city holds easements for the purpose of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, maintenance, and construction of public sewers.
(Ord. 141, passed 11-6-89)