15.04.005 Purposes – Liability for damage.
This title is enacted as an exercise of the police power of the city, to protect and preserve the public peace, health, safety and welfare by regulating the city’s water, sewer, and surface and stormwater utility. The city recognizes that it cannot solve all problems related thereto by enactment of this type of legislation; this title is therefore to be construed as an effort to make best possible use of available resources, and not an attempt to provide complete protection to all the city’s inhabitants.
A. It is expressly the purpose of this title to provide for and promote the health, safety and welfare of the general public, and not to create or designate any particular class of persons who will or should be especially protected by its terms.
B. It is the specific intent of this title to place the obligation of complying with its requirements on the owner or occupant of premises within its scope, and no provision of this title is intended to impose any duty whatsoever upon the city or any of its officers, for whom the implementation or enforcement of this title is discretionary and not mandatory.
C. Nothing contained in this title is intended to be, nor shall be construed to create, the basis for any liability on the part of the city or its officers for any injury or damage resulting from the failure of the owner or occupier of premises to comply with the provisions of this title, or by reason or in consequence of any act or omission in connection with the implementation or enforcement of this title on the part of the city or its officers. [Ord. 10056 § 3, 1990; Ord. 9073 § 4, 1982].