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operations or all of these. (Ord. 91-152. Passed 12-3-91.) (b) While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in subsection (a) hereof, the Service Director, Building Commissioner and City Engineer or duly authorized employee of the City shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the owner, and the owner shall be held harmless for injury or death to the City employees and the City shall indemnify the owner 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 911.12 (g). (c) The Service Director, Building Commissioner and City Engineer 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 purpose of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works lying within such easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on such easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved. (Ord. 84-40. Passed 4-26- 84.) 911.18 GRIEVANCES AND APPEALS. Users connected to public sewers or to a private sewage disposal system will have an opportunity to express complaints and grievances to the Service Director, who shall investigate such complaints and grievances. Where a user requests an adjustment in an extraordinary sewer bill caused by an accident or emergency at the user's property, the Service Director shall conduct an investigation of the accident or emergency, and may make an equitable adjustment to the user's sewer bill where the accident or emergency caused the user to use an extraordinary amount of water and the extraordinary amount of water did not directly enter into the City's public sewers. If the user is dissatisfied with the decision of the Service Director, he or she may appeal the decision of the Service Director to an appeals board consisting of the members of the Environmental Committee of Council, and the Building Commissioner and Finance Director. The Board, upon review of the record of the investigation conducted by the Service Director, may affirm, reverse or modify any decision of the Service Director. (Ord. 2009-112. Passed 10-20- 09.) 911.20 SEWER CONNECTIONS: TAP-