(a) In enforcing the provisions of this Chapter, the Director of Public Safety-Service, or his duly authorized representative, bearing proper credentials and identification, may at any reasonable hour enter upon any premises. No person shall obstruct, hamper, or interfere with him while performing these duties. The Director of Public Safety-Service may enter public property to:
(1) Determine the size and depth, and location of any connection with a public sewer or public storm drain.
(2) Determine the quantity and nature of industrial waste being discharged into any public sewer, public storm drain, or watercourse.
(3) Inspect, test, and sample the discharge of any device used to prevent the discharge into any sewer, storm drain, or watercourse of waste prohibited by this Section.
(4) Determine the location of roof, swimming pool, and surface drains, and whether they are connected to a street gutter, storm drain, or sewers.
(5) Determine the nature and quantity of flow in any open watercourse or storm drain.
(6) Determine whether there is a violation of the provisions of this Section.
(7) Exercise any other powers vested in him by this Section.
(b) On entering any lot or parcel of land for any of the above-mentioned purposes, the Director of Public Safety-Service or any employee designated by him may make the excavation and do such other work as may be necessary to make the tests herein authorized. Upon completion of the tests, the Director of Public Safety-Service shall cause the premises to be restored as nearly as practicable to their condition before such tests were made.
(c) The City shall reserve the right to inspect any sewer contributing flow to the City collection system suspected of being in violation of this Chapter. The inspection shall be made after proper notification to the potential violating entity. If the subject entity is determined to be in violation of proper maintenance, the cost of the inspection shall be borne by the violating entity. The City shall notify the subject entity that they are in violation of proper maintenance and shall further stipulate a reasonable time period for correcting the violation.
(d) The Director of Public Safety-Service may inspect, as often as he may deem necessary, every public sewer, sewage pumping plant, sewage or industrial waste treatment plant or facility, industrial connection sewer, interceptor, dilution basin, neutralization basin, or other similar appurtenance to ascertain whether the facilities are maintained and operated in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.
(e) The Director of Public Safety-Service may require the installation of a manhole for the purpose of measuring the flow of sewage or for making periodic tests of the wastes from the sewer connection at the owner's expense.
(f) No person shall install, construct, or place any permanent or temporary object or structure where it will interfere with ready and easy access to any pretreatment or treatment facility, sampling compartment, manhole, flow metering device, or any instrumentality for which a permit is required by this Section. Any obstruction shall be removed upon order of the Director of Public Safety-Service by the person responsible for it and at no expense to the City.
(g) When the Director of Public Safety-Service is satisfied that all work done under a permit issued pursuant to this Chapter has been constructed according to and meets the requirements of this Chapter and such other provisions of law as may be applicable, and that all fees have been paid, he shall, upon request thereof, issue to the permittee constructing such work a certificate of final inspection. The permit shall recite that the work covered by the permit has been constructed according to this Section and is approved.
(h) When the Director of Public Safety-Service is satisfied that all work done to rectify a violation is completed, he shall reserve the right to inspect the work to see that it conforms to the requirements of this Chapter and other such provisions of law as may be applicable.
(i) All fees received by the City under this Section shall be deposited in a sewer fund to be maintained by the Director of Finance.
(Ord. 73-12. Passed 12-10-12.)