§ 23-92 — Authority to inspect and sample

Sec. 23-92. - Authority to inspect and sample.

(a) CMUD personnel and other authorized employees of the city, bearing proper identification, will inspect the facilities of any user to ascertain whether the purpose of this article is being met and all requirements are being complied with. Persons or occupants of premises where wastewater is created or discharged shall allow CMUD, the approval authority and the Environmental Protection Agency or their representatives ready access at all times to all parts of the premises to perform inspection, sampling, records examination and copying or other duties. CMUD, the approval authority and the Environmental Protection Agency shall have the right to set up on the user's property such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling, inspection, compliance monitoring and/or metering operations. Where a user has security measures in force which would require identification and clearance before entry into his premises, the user shall make arrangements with his security guards so that, upon presentation of identification (identification being defined as the pieces of identification supplied by CMUD, the state or the Environmental Protection Agency to their employees), personnel from CMUD, the approval authority and the Environmental Protection Agency will be permitted to enter and perform their specific responsibilities without delay. Denial of CMUD's, the approval authority's or the Environmental Protection Agency's access to the user's premises or portions thereof shall be a violation of this article. Denial of access may also occur if a user fails to provide without unreasonable delay such facilities, equipment, or devices as are reasonably necessary to permit personnel of CMUD, the approval authority or the Environmental Protection Agency from performing their duties in a safe manner. Unreasonable delays may constitute denial of access. Any delay of more than five minutes may be considered unreasonable. (b) At all times, CMUD shall retain the authority to inspect the POTW and to sample and analyze wastewater in the POTW for any purpose.

(Ord. No. 5230, § 1(Exh. A), 10-28-2013)