(A) A customer’s water system shall be available at all times during business hours for inspection by authorized personnel of the Department. The inspection shall be conducted to determine compliance with this chapter.

(B) The customer shall test and service backflow prevention assemblies at least once a year. If the testing reveals the assembly to be defective or in unsatisfactory operating condition, the customer shall perform any necessary repairs, including replacement or overhaul of the assembly, if necessary, which will return the assembly to satisfactory operating condition.

(C) If the Department or customer learns or discovers, during the interim period between tests, that an assembly is defective or in unsatisfactory operating condition, the customer shall perform any necessary repairs, including replacement or overhaul of the assembly if necessary, which will return the assembly to satisfactory operating condition.

(D) The annual testing shall be performed by an individual certified and approved to conduct the testing by an agency recognized by the Department. A list of certified, approved and recognized individuals will be maintained by the Department and will be available upon request to all persons required to install or maintain a backflow prevention assembly. A tester may be suspended or removed from the list for improper testing, maintenance, reporting or other improper practices as determined by the Department.

(E) The customer shall maintain records, on forms approved by the Department, of the results of all tests and all servicing, repairs, overhauls or replacements of the backflow prevention assembly. A copy of the records shall be submitted to the Department within 14 days after completion of the activity for which the record is made. (Ord. 125 § 9, passed 9-11-1995. Code 2012 § 53.09.)