(a) The City Manager and other duly authorized employees of the City, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing pertinent to discharge into the public system in accordance with this chapter. The City Manager and other duly authorized employees shall have no authority to inquire into any process, including any metallurgical, chemical, oil, refining, ceramic, paper or any other industrial process, beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge into the sewers, waterways or wastewater works.
(b) While performing the necessary work on private property, as set forth in subsection (a) hereof, the City Manager and duly authorized employees of the City shall observe all safety rules applicable to a premises established by a company, and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to City employees. The City shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property occasioned by City employees; against liability claims and demands for damages for injury to persons or property by City employees; and against liability claims and demands for damages for injury to persons or property asserted against the company growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by the neglect or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in Section 1045.26.
(Ord. 1039. Passed 5-8-84.)