§ 94-598. Surveillance, inspection and search warrants.

(a)

Inspection. Any authorized representative of the city-parish consolidated government, state authority, or EPA, upon presentation of his credentials (unless no one is present and this is believed by the authorized representative of the city-parish consolidated government, state authority, or the EPA to be an emergency situation):

(1)

Shall have a right of entry without delay to, upon or through any premises to gain access to an industrial waste source;

(2)

May at any reasonable time, have access to and copy any records required by this article pertaining to industrial wastes (all such records are to be maintained onsite by the industrial user for a period of three years);

(3)

Inspect any monitoring equipment or method of pretreatment required and sample any effluents which the owner or occupant of such source is required to sample.

(b)

Search warrants. If the wastewater operations manager has been refused access to a building, structure, property, or any part thereof, and is able to demonstrate probable cause to believe that there may be a violation of this article, or that there is a need to inspect and/or sample as part of a routine inspection and sampling program of the city-parish consolidated government designed to verify compliance with this article or any permit or order issued hereunder, or to protect the overall public health, safety and welfare of the community, then the wastewater operations manager may seek issuance of a search warrant from any appropriate court with competent jurisdiction.

(Ord. No. O-037-2004, § 1, 3-2-04)