The City Engineer and other duly authorized employees of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing in accordance with the provisions of this Part 2. The City Engineer and other duly authorized employees shall also have the right to review and copy records from the files of industrial users. Inspections of residential premises shall be performed in proper observance of the resident's civil rights. The City Engineer or other duly authorized employees of the City shall have the right to set up on the user's property, such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling and flow measurement.
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in § 177-45, the City Engineer 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 or 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 the negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in §§ 177-40 and 177-41.
The City Engineer and other employees of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the City holds an easement for the purpose of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair, replacement, improvement and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works 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 properties involved.
Authorized officials or their duly appointed representatives of New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and United States Environmental Protection Agency enjoy the same powers and authority of inspection as given to the City Engineer, as it pertains to commercial or industrial discharges to the system, under Article VII of this Code.