No permit shall be issued except to the owner of real property to be used for the location of a well or to the owner of an oil and gas lease or drilling contract granting the right to locate and drill a well. A permit shall terminate and become invalid and inoperative without any further action on the part of the City upon the expiration of sixty days from the date of its issuance, unless within that time actual drilling of the well has commenced. Failure to drill or operate a well for a period of sixty days likewise shall operate to terminate a permit, and the well authorized by such permit shall be deemed abandoned. No person shall thereafter drill or operate any such abandoned well without first obtaining another permit therefor.
(Ord. 221-65. Passed 6-9-65.)