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Any person drilling or operating a well for oil or gas, or cleaning an abandoned well in preparation for plugging, shall provide a drilling in control gate which shall be constructed to cut off the flow of gas to the top of the well and which can be operated from a point remote from the well.
(Ord. 221-65. Passed 6-9-65.)
If a well is plugged and/or abandoned, the owner or lessee thereof shall notify the Building Inspector, and the location of the well shall be indicated on the map provided at the time of the original application. Such plugging and/or abandonment shall be performed pursuant to the laws of the State and the ordinances of the City and shall be done under the supervision of a representative of the Division of Mines, State of Ohio.
(Ord. 221-65. Passed 6-9-65.)
No person shall remove any casing or piping of an abandoned or unmapped well until such well has been reported to the Building Inspector and to the Division of Mines, State of Ohio. No construction of any kind shall be performed over or near an abandoned or unmapped well until such time as the well has been inspected and the recommendations of the Building Inspector and the Division of Mines, State of Ohio, have been complied with.
(Ord. 221-65. Passed 6-9-65.)
Drilling shall be permitted twenty-four hours a day, but no driller may dress tools, sharpen bits or operate his or her forge between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the next day in any area where there are inhabited dwellings within 1,000 feet of any drilling operation.
(Ord. 221-65. Passed 6-9-65.)
(a) Material, equipment, tools or pipe used for drilling or producing operations shall not be delivered to or removed from an oil well site except between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., unless an actual emergency exists at the oil well site which requires such delivery or removal at a different time.
(b) Products removed from the site of a producing well shall be removed from the site only between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
(Ord. 269-66. Passed 4-27-66.)
All permit holders shall keep the streets and highways near the drilling site free of mud, gravel and other similar foreign substances. All mud, gravel and other similar foreign substances upon the streets and highways caused by the drilling or operation of a well shall be removed immediately by the holder of the permit for such oil well. In addition to the penalty provided in Section 832.99, failure of a permit holder to remove mud, gravel or other similar foreign substances immediately from streets and highways shall be grounds for revocation of a well permit.
(Ord. 269-66. Passed 4-27-66.)
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