(a) Permit Fees. All applicants for a permit to drill an oil or gas well in the City shall pay to the City Clerk, at the time of filing such application, a deposit of one hundred dollars ($100.00) as a fee to apply to the costs and expenses of administering this chapter, of which seventy-five dollars ($75. 00) shall be refunded to such applicant if the permit is not granted. Each applicant for a permit to lay a pipeline along or across a street, alley, highway, parking space, sidewalk area or other public property shall pay to the Clerk, at the time of filing such application, a fee of twenty-five cents (250) per rod or part thereof, but in no event less than ten dollars ($10. 00), to cover the costs and expenses of administering this chapter, of which seventy-five percent shall be refunded to the applicant if such permit is not granted. No permit to drill a well shall be granted by Council unless and until the applicant therefor has paid to the City the one hundred dollar ($100.00) deposit required by this section.
(Ord. 286. Passed 6-6-60; Ord. 316. Passed 5-18-64.)
(b) Annual Fees. On the first Monday in May after the completion of a producing well and a pipeline for which a permit is required under this chapter, and annually thereafter so long as such operations continue, the owner of such pipeline shall pay to the City ten cents (10£) per rod, but not less than ten dollars ($10.00), and the owner of such well shall pay to the City fifty dollars ($50.00), as fees to apply to the cost of administering this chapter.
(Ord. 286. Passed 6-6-60.)