733.10 RELATIONSHIP TO STATE OIL AND GAS WELLS.
The City’s adoption of these regulations shall be supplementary to and read in conjunction with the standards and regulations in Ohio R.C. Chapter 1509 as they relate to the drilling, constructing, reopening, converting, plugging back, plugging, operating, maintaining and abandoning of any oil or gas well within the limits of the City. Whenever the requirements are at variance with the requirements of the aforementioned Ohio R.C. Chapter 1509, the most restrictive or that imposing the higher standard shall govern.
(a) State Authorization and Filing Permits, Plan, Etc.
(1) No person, firm or corporation shall, within the limits of the City, drill a new oil or gas well or drill into the City from a surface location outside the City limits, drill an existing oil or gas well any deeper, reopen an oil or gas well, convert an oil or gas well to any other use other than its original purpose or plug back an oil or gas well to a source of supply different from the existing pool, without first having obtained a permit to do so from the Chief of the Division of Oil and Gas of the State Department of Natural Resources, pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 1509.
(2) An exact and complete copy of the permit referred to in the preceding paragraph, along with an exact and complete copy of any application, plan, map and other documentation filed therefor with the Chief of the Division of Oil and Gas of the State Department of Natural Resources shall be filed with the Building Commissioner at least five full business days prior to the commencement of any drilling, reopening, converting or plugging back as referred to in the preceding paragraph.
(b) City Authorization.
(1) No person, firm or corporation shall within the limits of the City, drill a new oil or gas well, drill an existing oil or gas well any deeper, reopen an oil or gas well, convert an oil or gas well to any use other than its original purpose or plug back an oil or gas well to a source of supply different from the existing pool, without first having obtained a permit that is, a "City permit", to do so issued from the Building Commissioner.
(2) No person, firm or corporation shall drill into the City from a surface location outside the City limits, drill a new oil or gas well, drill an existing oil or gas well any deeper, reopen an oil and gas well, convert an oil or gas well to any other use other than its original purpose, or plug back an oil or gas well to a source of supply different from the existing pool, without first obtaining a registration permit issued by the Building Commissioner.
(3) The Building Commissioner may issue such permit to any person, firm or corporation who has been issued a corresponding permit by the Chief of the Division of Oil and Gas of the State Department of Natural Resources, pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 1509 and who has otherwise complied with the applicable requirements of this chapter. No person, firm or corporation shall be issued such a City permit until the fee of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) has been paid to the City.
(4) When the surface location of a gas or oil well is outside the corporate limits of the City, but enters or terminates inside the City limits, no person, firm or corporation shall be issued a registration permit until the fee of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) has been paid to the City.
(5) The following information shall be included when applying to drill or re- enter a well for gas, oil or other hydrocarbon within the corporate limits of the City.
(Ord. 16-2000. Passed 9-26-00.)