Such employee of the city as the City Manager shall designate shall have authority to inspect the construction of water lines and other parts of a water system proposed to be connected to a main of the city or which is situated in a street or alley of the city or in a strip of land in respect of which there exists an easement for public water mains or laterals, to determine whether such line and other parts of the system comply with the plans and specifications as approved, and with good engineering practice as to matters not specified. For this purpose, such officer or employee shall have the right to enter the premises on which the system to be connected, or any part thereof, is situated. If such construction shall not conform to the plans and specifications as approved, and with good engineering practice as to matters not specified, the City Manager, or the designee of the City Manager, shall so notify the person to whom a permit to connect was issued.