The Superintendent and other duly authorized
employees of the Village and representatives of the United States
Environmental Protection Agency and New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation bearing proper credentials and identification shall be
permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection,
observation, measurement, sampling and testing pertinent to discharge
to the community system in accordance with the provisions of this
chapter.
The Superintendent or other duly authorized
employees are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial
processes which have a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge
to the wastewater collection system. The industry may withhold information
considered confidential. The industry must establish that the revelation
to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage
to competitors.
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in §
75-41 above, the Superintendent or duly authorized employees of the Village 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 Village employees, and the Village shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by Village 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 operations, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in §
75-35.
The Superintendent and other duly authorized
employees of the Village bearing proper credentials and identification
shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the
Village 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 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.