A. Officials of the Village and its duly authorized employees, the Illinois 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 the provisions of this Chapter. The Village or its representatives shall have no authority to inquire into any processes, including metallurgical, chemical, oil refining, ceramic, paper or other industries beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers or waterway or facilities for waste treatment.
B. While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in subsection A of this Section, the Village or duly authorized employees of the Village 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 the Village employees, and the Village shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by the Village employees and against liability claims and demands for personnel 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 subsection 8-2-5E2 of this Chapter.
C. The Village and 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. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the fully negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved. (Ord. 83-20, 12-20-83)