(a) Council may in its discretion allow any permittee to lay the pipeline from its drilling site to its oil tank storage area on public property. A plat must be submitted at the time application for a drilling permit is made showing clearly the location of the drilling site, location of the oil tank storage area and location of the pipeline between drilling site and oil tank storage area. Council must approve the location of such line and may in its absolute discretion require a change of route for the pipeline, in whole or in part. In all instances where the pipeline crosses private property, easements must be acquired for the pipeline and proof of such filed with application for a drilling permit.
(b) Council may require the permittee prior to actual laying of a pipeline to deposit with the Municipality a sum of money considered adequate to restore all property in the path of the pipeline to the same condition it was in prior to laying such pipeline. The cost of laying and maintaining the pipeline shall be borne entirely by the permittee. Upon restoring property in the path of the pipeline to the condition it was in prior to laying the pipeline, the deposit shall be returned to the permittee on order of the Clerk. If any portion of the job of restoring property to proper condition is considered inadequate Council may, on notice to the permittee of its failure, proceed to have the work done and use the deposit to pay any expense of any type incurred in restoring such property to its original condition.
(Ord. 586. Passed 4-6-64.)