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No person engaged in any phase of construction shall remove any casing or piping of any abandoned and/or unmappedwelluntil such well has been reported to the Director of Public Service and to the representative of the Division of Mines, State of Ohio. No construction shall take place either over or near an abandoned and/or unmapped gas or oil well until the well has been inspected and the recommended type of treatment has been made by the owner of the land or by the oil and gas leaseholder.
No structure which will be used as human habitation or for a public building shall be constructed closer than one hundred feet to a producing gas or oil well or an abandoned gas or oil well until or unless such well has been treated in a manner satisfactory to the Division of Mines, State of Ohio.
Producing or nonproducing wells leaking gas and/or oil due to deteriorated or damaged valves, casing or piping, so as to constitute a nuisance or hazard to life and/or property, shall be so treated by the property owner or by the oil and gas well leaseholder as to rectify the faulty conditions and to make the wells free of nuisance and/or hazard to life and property.
The enforcement of this chapter, and all other laws and ordinances in force in the City applicable to the same subject matter, shall primarily devolve upon the Service Department, but the Police, Fire and Health Departments shall also be charged with the enforcement of this chapter and shall, so far as possible, act in connection with the Service Department. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt any other City officer or department from any obligation as may be required by law.
Whoever violates any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable under Chapter 501 of the Codified Ordinances. The Law Director is further authorized to seek injunctive relief against violations of the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 6025-1981. Passed 8-18-81.)