(a) The Utilities Director and other duly authorized employees of the City 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.
(b) While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in subsection (a) hereof, the Utilities Director or duly authorized employees of the City shall observe all safety rules applicable and the property owner shall be held harmless for injury or death to the City employees and the City shall indemnify the property owner against loss or damage to its property by City employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the property owner and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the property owner to maintain safe conditions.
(c) The Utilities Director and other duly authorized employees of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the City holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, repair, sampling and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works lying within the easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on the easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
(Ord. A-2743. Passed 12-10-12; Ord. A-2789. Passed 6-23-14.)