(1) Except as otherwise provided herein, the public works director, or their designee, shall administer, implement, and enforce the provisions of this chapter.

(2) The public works director or designee 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. The director or designee shall have authority to inquire into any processes including metallurgical, chemical, oil, refining, ceramic, paper, or other industries having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers or waterways or facilities for waste treatment.

(3) The public works director or designee shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the city holds a duly negotiated easement for the purpose of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the sewage lying within said easement, said to be done in accordance with the terms of the easement pertaining to the private property involved.

(4) The public works director or designee shall have the right to enter upon any lands, buildings, or premises required by this chapter to be connected to the sanitary sewer or to disconnect the source or sources of stormwater, groundwater or surface water from the sanitary sewer at all reasonable times to ascertain whether the provisions of this chapter have been or are being complied with, and if they shall find that such lands, building or premises connections or disconnections do not conform to the provisions of this chapter, to notify the owner or occupant or his agent of the fact, and it shall thereupon be the duty of such owner, occupant or agent to cause the requirements of this chapter to be so altered, repaired, or reconstructed as to make them conform to these provisions.

(5) The public works director or designee shall have the right to enter upon any user’s lands, buildings or premises using city sewerage for purposes of obtaining samples and making tests. City equipment left at any such site for sampling and testing purposes shall not be removed or in any way tampered with. (Ord. 1405 § 1 (Exh. 1), 2015).