In the drilling, operation and maintenance of any oil or gas well in the city of Eufaula, operations shall be subject to the following regulations, and violations thereof are hereby declared unlawful and an offense:
A. Drainage Onto Street Or Into Ditch Or Sewer: No oil, liquid with oil content, gasoline, other oil product, surface mud, rotary mud, sand or salt water shall be disposed of by draining or diverting the same into or upon any public highway, street, alley, drainage ditch, storm sewer, sanitary sewer, gutter or paving; nor shall any of such substances be permitted to escape from the property owned, leased or controlled by the person carrying on such operations, by seepage or overflow.
B. Internal Combustion Engines: No steam, gasoline, natural gas, diesel or other internal combustion engine, shall be operated within the corporate limits of the city of Eufaula without being muffled so as not to create a nuisance.
C. Slush Pits And Excavations: All slush pits and other excavations shall be filled and leveled off upon the completion of any oil or gas well, or upon the abandonment of any of the operations covered in this chapter.
D. Storage Tanks Protected: All storage tanks, or other tanks intended to contain inflammable substances, shall be protected by earthen embankments thrown up about the same in such manner as to adequately contain all contents or intended contents of such tanks. No such tanks shall be erected or installed nearer than thirty feet (30') to any dwelling house, established business structure, street or highway.
E. Operation Near School Or Church: No oil or gas well shall be drilled, operated or maintained, nor shall any of the operations in connection therewith be carried on, nearer than one hundred feet (100') by the shortest distance, to any previously established church or school building.
F. Safety Requirements: Approved equipment, devices and methods for the safety of life and property, such as are commonly known in the oil drilling and producing business, must be used in the city of Eufaula in the carrying on of all the operations covered by this chapter, and the failure to use any such equipment, devices or methods in any substantially important operation shall be grounds for immediately stopping further work until such failure has been corrected.
G. Litter, Waste Substance Accumulations: The premises upon which any oil or gas well is drilled, operated or maintained shall be kept free from accumulations of rubbish, litter, unused materials or equipment, excessive rotary mud and slush pits, waste oil and oil substances, or other waste oil products, so far as such premises may be reasonably kept free of the same in carrying on the operations covered by this chapter.
H. Restoration Of Public Ways: Where, in the installation, erection or construction of work being done by virtue of permits issued under this chapter, sidewalks or the surface of streets, alleys, other right of way or any other public property are disturbed, damaged or destroyed, the same must be replaced or restored to its original condition, or better, in as short a period of time thereafter as may be reasonably done.
I. Operation Of Derricks: All derricks must be erected and operated with the rules, regulations and specifications promulgated by the corporation commission of the state of Oklahoma and the various departments of such commission. Failure to abide by such rules, regulations and specifications in the case of any substantially important operation shall, in addition to the other penalties provided in this chapter, automatically operate as a forfeiture and cancellation of all permits obtained in the case of the particular well where such violations occur, and automatically terminate the right to continue such work or any part thereof, excepting such as may be necessary for safety or to prevent serious loss. Such operation shall not be continued until a new permit has been obtained and paid for on the same basis as a new and original permit.
J. Information Provided Upon Request: Full and accurate drilling floor information, and any and all other full and accurate information pertaining to operations under permits procured under this chapter, shall be furnished the chief of police, the city of Eufaula council or any of its duly authorized agents at any time. Such information shall be supplied upon demand and without unnecessary delay.
K. Police Authority: Full police authority for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter are hereby given to the chief of police or to any duly authorized agent of the city of Eufaula council.
L. Pipeline Installation, Council Consent: No pipelines of any kind, no power transmission system of any kind, no communication system of any kind and no other transmission systems of any kind shall be erected or installed in, along, across, under or over any street, alley, highway or railroad right of way in the city of Eufaula, except by special consent, by motion, of the city of Eufaula council.
M. Fence Required At Completion Of Drilling: At the conclusion of drilling operations, a fence shall be erected around both the well and the machinery used in connection with the operation of the well. (Ord. 08-01-1, 1-7-2008)