(1) The city shall exercise all lawful powers necessary and appropriate to the construction, acquisition, addition, maintenance, operation, management, regulation and control of the drainage system within the boundaries of the city to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the city with respect to public and private property which affect the flow of surface water or the use of drainage facilities.

(2) It is not the purpose of this chapter to create a duty of the city to insure or protect individual persons or property against water drainage. (Ord. 1405 § 1 (Exh. 1), 2015).