(A) The authorized enforcement agency shall be permitted to enter and inspect facilities subject to regulation under this subchapter as often as necessary to determine compliance with this subchapter.
(B) Persons shall allow the authorized enforcement agency ready access to all parts of the premises for the purpose of inspection, sampling, examination and copying of records that must be kept under the conditions of an NPDES permit to discharge stormwater and the performance of any additional duties as defined by state law.
(C) The authorized enforcement agency shall have the right to set up on any permitted facility such devices as necessary in the opinion of the authorized enforcement agency to conduct monitoring and/or sampling of the facility's stormwater discharge.
(D) The authorized enforcement agency has the right to require the discharger to install monitoring equipment as necessary. The facility's sampling and monitoring equipment shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition by the discharger at its own expense. All devices used to measure stormwater flow and quality shall be calibrated to their accuracy.
(E) Any temporary or permanent obstruction to the facility being inspected and/or sampled shall be promptly removed by the facility operator at the written or oral request of the authorized enforcement agency and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be borne by the facility operator.
(F) Unreasonable delay and/or denial of access to a permitted facility are violations of a stormwater discharge permit and this subchapter. The authorized enforcement agency is hereby empowered to seek assistance from any court of competent jurisdiction in obtaining such entry.
(Ord. 04-2515, passed 10-4-04) Penalty, see § 10.99