A. No person shall drill for or produce oil, gas, or other hydrocarbon substances from any surface location within the city, including any controlled drill site, whether the subsurface operation from such well is within or outside the city except that production of oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances may continue from controlled drill site no. 1, as defined in subsection 10-5-306B of this chapter, until the date specified in section 10-5-323 of this chapter for cessation of such activity.
B. The council hereby finds and determines that it is, and it is hereby declared to be unlawful and a public nuisance for any person hereafter to erect any derrick or drilling equipment and hereafter to drill a well in order to produce oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances from drill sites that are located in the city.
C. No person shall drill for or produce oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances from the subsurface of the city from drill sites located outside the city, except as permitted by this article.
D. The council hereby finds and determines that it is, and it is hereby declared to be, unlawful and a public nuisance for any person hereafter to drill an oil well or produce oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances by directional or slant drilling methods from surface locations or sites outside the city which said wells pass through or bottom in the subsurface of any property located within the city, except in the manner provided in this article.
E. No person shall drill or redrill or deepen below its present bottom any oil well for the production of or exploration for oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances where any portion of the surface operation or the subsurface operation of such well is located within the city, except as authorized by this article. (Ord. 11-O-2614, eff. 11-18-2011)