(a) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(1) Lease means any tract of land subject to an oil, gas, and mineral lease or other oil and gas development contract, or any unit composed of several tracts and leases but operated as one lease, and any tract of land in which the minerals are owned by an operator or someone holding under it or him, but which, due to the fee royalty ownership is developed and operated as a separate tract.
(2) Permittee means the person to whom a permit is issued for the drilling and operation of a well under this chapter, and his or its administrators, executors, heirs, successors, and assigns.
(3) Person includes both the singular and the plural, and means and includes any person, individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, club, society, cooperative, trust, municipal corporation, or political subdivision whatsoever.
(4) Well includes and means any hole or holes, bore or bores, to any sand, formation, strata, or depth for the purpose of producing and recovering any oil, gas, liquid hydrocarbon, or any of them.
(b) All technical or oil and gas industry words or phrases used herein and not specifically defined herein shall have those meanings customarily attributable thereto by prudent operators in the oil and gas industry.
(Ord. 39817, passed 10-2-79)