(a) The Director of Public Service or other duly authorized representative of the City, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, testing, records review and copying, to determine compliance with this chapter. The Director of Public Service or his or her representative shall have no authority to inquire into any processes beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers and waterways of facilities for waste treatment.
(b) While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in subsection (a) hereof, the Director of Public Service or duly authorized representative of the City 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 City employees. The City shall indemnify the company 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 owner and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the owner to maintain safe conditions as required in Section 1044.05.
(c) The Director of Public Service and other duly authorized representatives 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, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works lying within such easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on such easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
(Ord. 86-08. Passed 5-19-86; Ord. 16-06. Passed 5-2-16.)