It is expressly the purpose of this chapter to comply with the September 13, 1985, order of the Washington State Department of Ecology requiring the city of Everett to establish an industrial pretreatment program and to provide for and promote the health, safety and welfare of the general public. It is not the intent of this chapter to create or otherwise establish or designate any particular class or group of persons who will or should be especially protected or benefited by the terms or requirements of this chapter.

It is the specific intent of this chapter to place the obligation of complying with these regulations upon the applicant or discharger and no provision nor any term used in this chapter is intended to impose any duty whatsoever upon the city or any of its officers, employees or agents, except as provided under the Act or other related statutes of the United States or the state of Washington.

Nothing contained in this chapter is intended to be nor shall be construed to create or form the basis for any tort liability on the part of the city or its officers, employees or agents for any injury or damage resulting from the failure of an applicant or discharger to comply with the provisions of this chapter, or by reason or in consequence of any inspection, notice, order, certificate, permission or approval authorized or issued or done in connection with the implementation or enforcement of this chapter, or inaction on the part of the city related in any manner to the implementation or the enforcement of this chapter by its officers, employees or agents. (Ord. 3070-08 § 13.4, 2008.)