A. In the drilling, operation or maintenance of any oil or gas well in the City, all of such operations shall be subject to the following regulations, and violations thereof are hereby declared unlawful and offenses.
1. No oil or liquid with oil content, gasoline or other oil product, surface mud or rotary mud, sand or salt water shall be disposed of by draining or diverting the same into or upon any public highway, street, or 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.
2. No steam, gasoline, natural gas, diesel or other internal combustion engine, shall be operated within the corporate limits of the City without being muffled to one hundred ten (110) dBA or less.
3. No earthen pits or other excavations shall be constructed for the handling of drilling fluids. All working pits are restricted to steel vessels or twenty (20) mil lining for circulation of drilling fluids.
4. All storage tanks or other tanks intended to contain inflammable substances shall be protected by earthen embankments in such manner as to adequately contain one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the maximum contents of such tanks; and no such tanks shall be erected or installed closer than five hundred feet (500') to any dwelling house, established business structure, street, highway, industry, place of worship or school; provided however, oil or gas wells or appurtenances to tanks which were permitted prior to the adoption of this title or any amendment hereto shall comply with the setback and distance requirements in force and effect at the time of the issuance of the initial permit.
5. No oil or gas well shall be drilled, operated or maintained, nor shall any of the operations in connection therewith be carried on, closer than five hundred feet (500'), by the shortest distance, to any place of worship, school building, residence, industry, commercial building, public or private water well, or any other structure where people congregate and no place of worship, school building, residence, industry, commercial building, public or private water well, or any other structure where people congregate shall be placed closer than one hundred fifty feet (150') to any existing, non-plugged well bore, provided however, the location of oil or gas wells or appurtenances thereto and the proximity to structures and the location of structures and the proximity to oil or gas wells and appurtenances, prior to the adoption of this title or any amendment hereto shall be in compliance with the setback and distance requirements in force and effect at the time of the issuance of the initial permit.
6. 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 in the carrying on of all the operations covered by this title, and failure to use any of such equipment, devices or methods in any substantially important operation shall be a ground for immediately stopping further work until sure failure has been corrected.
7. Surface pipe shall be set according to State requirements.
8. The premises upon which any oil well is drilled, operated or maintained shall be kept free from accumulations of rubbish, litter, unused materials or equipment, excessive rotary mud and waste oil or oily substances or other waste oil products, so far as such premises may be reasonably kept free of the same in the carrying on the operations covered by this title.
9. All piping, pipeline, connection and fixtures shall be equivalent, both as to installation as well as material used, to the specifications of the National Gas Safety Code as adopted and approved by the United States Department of Commerce as the same is now in force and effect.
10. All derricks erected must be carried on in compliance with the rules, regulations and specifications promulgated by the Corporation Commission of the State, and the various departments of such commission. Failure to abide by such rules, regulations and specifications in case of any substantially important operation shall, in addition to the other penalties provided in this title, 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; and 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.
11. Full and accurate drilling floor information, and any and all other full and accurate information pertaining to operations under permits procured under this title, shall be furnished to the City Manager or any of his/her duly authorized agents at any time. Such information shall be supplied upon demand and without unnecessary delay.
12. Full police authority for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this title is hereby given to the oil and gas inspector or to any other duly authorized agent of the Board of Commissioners.
13. No pipelines of any kind, no power transmission system of any kind, no communication systems 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 except by special consent of the Board of Commissioners. (Ord. 972, 9-11-2017)