A. Inspection of Premises. The director or other duly authorized employees or representatives of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be readily permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, record examination and copying, measurement, sampling, and testing in accordance with the provisions of this chapter at all reasonable times. If the director, health officer, or other duly authorized employee or representative of the city or the health department has reasonable cause to believe that wastewater discharge conditions on or emanating from a facility are so hazardous, unsafe or dangerous as to require immediate inspection to safeguard public health or safety or the integrity of the POTW, they shall have the right to immediately enter and inspect the property and may use any reasonable means required to effect such entry and make such inspection.

B. The director shall have the right to set up on the user’s property, or require installation of, such devices as necessary to conduct sampling and/or metering of the user’s operations. The director may require the user 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 user at its own expense. Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and easy access to the facility to be inspected and/or sampled shall be removed by the user at the written or verbal request of the director and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be borne by the user. Unreasonable delays in allowing access to the user’s premises shall be a violation of this chapter.

C. Cost of Inspection. Each discharger shall pay a reasonable inspection fee sufficient to cover the costs of the inspection. Such costs may be incorporated in the industrial user wastewater discharge permit fee.

D. Rights of City Entry. The director or 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, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the POTW. (Ord. 1598 § 1 (part), 2014)