(A) No equipment, material, drilling rigs and other equipment may be placed on any site until all necessary permits and licenses have been obtained.
(B) No person shall conduct drilling operations after 10:00 p.m. or before 7:00 a.m. each day. No person shall conduct any drilling operations on a Sunday.
(C) No person shall permit any mud, oil, water, slush or other waste matter related to the drilling or operating of any oil or gas well to escape into any adjoining lots upon which permittee does not have contractual rights to use the surface or upon lands leased to someone other than the permittee or into the alleys, streets, gutters or sewers of the municipality; and within 15 days after the completion or abandonment of any oil or gas well the mud and other similar matter and materials used in connection with the drilling and operation thereon shall be removed from the premises.
(D) No person acting either for himself or as agent, employee, independent contractor or servant of any other person shall commence to drill or to operate any oil or gas well within the municipal limits or to work upon or assist in the prosecution and operation of any such well without a license for the drilling and operation of such well having first been issued in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(E) All persons engaged in the drilling and operation of oil or gas wells within the municipal limits shall comply with the following rules and regulations:
(1) All storage tanks shall be located below ground and shall be covered with a minimum of six inches of earth.
(2) Each drilling or production area shall be enclosed by a six foot high fence of chain link or comparable construction which encloses an area and radius 100 feet from the center of the drilling rig.
(3) A minimum of 420 feet of surface pipe must be set which must be cemented from the depth of 420 feet to the surface of the earth.
(4) Each well being drilled must have a workable blow-out valve.
(5) No person engaged in drilling or operating any well shall permit gas to escape or be vented into the air unless such gas be flared and burned. All gas flared and burned from a torch, pipe or other burning device, within the municipality must be done In such manner so as not to constitute a fire hazard to any property; and the location of the torch, pipe or other burning device, the construction thereof, the maintenance thereof and the operation thereof, shall at all times be in full compliance with such regulations as may from time to time be issued by the Fire Chief of the Townships of Perry and Washington.
(6) No oil, waste water, sludge water or salt water, produced or used in connection with the drilling operation or production of oil or gas well, shall be disposed of within the limits of the municipality and shall not be permitted to empty into any sanitary sewer, storm sewer or surface drainage. However, temporary depositories for salt water, waste or sludge water and basic sediment and water, may be constructed of concrete, steel or other material which is impervious to and impenetrable by oil or water; and in the latter case such pits for temporary deposits shall be so constructed that no seepage shall result therefrom and that surface water resulting from water drainage or rain, cannot drain into such pit. Further, disposal of salt water may be made in a well drilled for that purpose or an abandoned oil well, provided that approval for such disposal be first obtained from the Chief inspector of the Oil and Gas Division of Mines, Department of Industrial Relations of the State of Ohio.
(7) Whenever any well is abandoned within the municipal limits, it shall be the obligation of the permittee to plug such well in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Mines, and to take any and all additional provisions or precautionary measures prescribed by the State of Ohio in connection with abandonment and plugging of the well. It shall be the further obligation of the permittee or the operator of the well to cut the surface casing off at least six feet below the surface of the ground and to place at least a 25-foot cement plug in the top of the casing and to weld the top of the casing completely shut. The resulting hole in the ground must be completely filled to the surface of the ground and duly tamped.
(8) Within 30 days after any oil and/or gas well within the municipal limits has been completed for the production of oil and/or gas, or within 30 days after the same has been completed in the cases where the same is abandoned for the reason that a dry hole is found, the permittee shall remove the excess sludge or mud and fill all pits and excavations and level off the surface of the working area and the permittee shall not allow any accumulation of sludge or oil or other offensive or dangerous substances to accumulate and shall keep his premises in a sanitary and sightly condition. The permittee shall restore any disturbed drainage facilities and leave the premises in such a condition that no pooling of surface water will result.
(F) The owners of separate adjoining tracts may agree to pool such tracts to form a drilling unit. Such agreement shall be in writing, a copy of which shall be submitted to the Manager with the application for the license. For this purpose, areas outside of the municipal limits may be pooled with tracts within the municipal limits.
('80 Code, § 713.07) (Ord. 12-64, passed 7-6-64) Penalty, see § 114.99