(a) The Community Development Director or his or her designee or other duly authorized employees of the Village, the State Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the MWRD, 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 Community Development Director or his or her 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 subsection (a) hereof, the Director of Community Development, or his or her duly authorized employees of the Village, the State E.P.A., the U.S. E.P.A. and the MWRD, 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 Village employees. 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 operations by Village employees, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required by this chapter.
(c) The Director of Community Development and his or her 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, 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. 795. Passed 9-27-93.)