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 Concord
 Code of Ordinances
 Title I. GENERAL CODE
 Chapter 9. WATER
 Article 9-6. SEWERS AND DRAINS

  § 9-6-31. Powers and Authority of Inspectors.  

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  • (a)

    The Director and duly authorized employees of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, copying of records, and testing pertinent to discharges to the community system in accordance with the provisions of this Article.

    (b)

    The Director or other duly authorized employees are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes which have a bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the public sewer. The industrial user may request that the information in question not be made available to the public if it can establish that revelation to the public might result in an advantage to competitors. The burden of proof that information should be held confidential rests with the industrial user. However, information about wastewater discharged by the industrial user (flow, constituents, concentrations, characteristics, and similar information) shall be available to the public without restriction.

    (c)

    While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in Section 9-6-31(a), above, the Director or duly authorized employees 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 the City employees, and the City shall indemnify the company against loss of damage to its property by City employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in Section 9-6-22.

    (d)

    The 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, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater facilities lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.

(Ord. No. 2292, § II, 2-8-99)