In the drilling, operation, and maintenance of any oil or gas wells in the town, all of such operations shall be subject to the following regulations, and violations thereof are hereby declared unlawful and an offense.
(A) No oil, liquid with oil content, gasoline, other oil product, surface mud, rotary mud, sand, or salt water shall be disposed of by draining or diverting the same into or upon any public highway, street, alley, drainage ditch, storm sewer, sanitary sewer, gutter, or paving nor shall any such substances be permitted to escape from the property owned, leased, or controlled by the person carrying on such operations by seepage or overflow.
(B) No steam, gasoline, natural gas, diesel, or other internal combustion engine shall be operated within corporate limits of the town without being muffled so as not to create a nuisance.
(C) All slush pits and other excavations shall be filled and leveled off upon the completion of any oil or gas well or upon the abandonment of any of the operations covered in this chapter.
(D) All storage tanks or other tanks intended to contain inflammable substances shall be protected by earthen embankments constructed about the same in such manner as to adequately contain all the contents and not installed nearer than 30 feet to any dwelling house, established business structure, church, or school building.
(E) No oil or gas well shall be drilled, operated, or maintained nor shall any of the operation in connection therewith be carried on nearer than 100 feet by the shortest distance to any previously established church or school building.
(F) Approved equipment, devices, and methods for the safety of life and property, such as are commonly known in the oil drilling and producing business, must be used in the municipality in the carrying on of all the operations covered by this chapter, and the failure to use any of such equipment, devices, or methods in any substantially important operation shall be grounds for immediately stopping further work until such failure has been corrected.
(G) The premises upon which any oil or gas well is drilled, operated, or maintained shall be kept free from accumulations of rubbish, litter, unused materials or equipment, excessive rotary mud and slush pits, waste oil or oil substances, or other waste oil product so far as such premises may be reasonably kept free of the same in carrying on the operations covered by this chapter.
(H) Where (in the installation, erection, or construction of work being done by virtue of permits issued under this chapter) sidewalks or the surface of streets, alleys, other rights-of-way, or any other public property is disturbed, damaged, or destroyed, the same must be replaced or restored to its original condition or better in as short a period of time thereafter as may be reasonably done.
(I) All derricks must be erected and operated in compliance with the rules, regulations, and specifications promulgated by the Corporation Commission of the state and the various departments of said Commission. Failure to abide by such rules and regulations and specifications in the case of any substantially important operation shall, in addition to the other penalties provided in this chapter, automatically operate as a forfeiture and cancellation of all permits obtained in the case of the particular well where such violations occur and automatically terminate the right to continue such work or any part thereof, excepting such as may be necessary for safety or to prevent serious loss; such operation shall not be continued until a new permit has been obtained and paid for on the same basis as a new and original permit.
(J) Full and accurate drilling floor information and any and all other full and accurate information operations under permits procured under this chapter shall be furnished the Chief of Police, the Town Board of Trustees, or any of his, her, or its duly authorized agents at any time. Such information shall be supplied upon demand and without unnecessary delay.
(K) Full police authority, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter, are hereby given to the Chief of Police or to any other duly authorized agent of the Town Board of Trustees.
(L) No pipelines of any kind, no power transmissions systems of any kind, no communication systems of any kind, and no other transmission systems of any kind shall be erected or installed in, along, across, under, or over any street, alley, highway, or railroad right-of-way in the town except by special consent, by motion, of the Town Board of Trustees.
(M) At the conclusion of drilling operations, a fence (minimum eight feet in height with three stranded top mount angles) shall be erected around both the well and the machinery used in connection with the operation of the well.
(Prior Code, § 16-15)