8.30.010   Definitions.
   All technical or oil and gas industry words or phrases used in this chapter and not specifically defined shall have that meaning customarily attributable thereto by prudent operators in the oil and gas industry. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
   "Drilling district*' means a tract of land comprising a spacing unit or proration unit as determined by the State Oil Conservation Commission.
   "Gathering lines" means all pipelines operated as an incident to the development and operation of wells.
   "Oil and gas inspector" means the enforcement officer of the city or his designee.
   "Permittee" means the person to whom is issued a permit or certificate for the drilling, operating and producing of a well or for the construction and operation of a gas pipeline under the provisions of this chapter, and his heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns.
   "Residence" means a building used as a home or dwelling place.
   "Right-of-way" means, and is expressly limited to, all public rights-of-way or streets or other public property within the city.
   "Street" means any street, highway, sidewalk, alley, avenue, recessed parking area or other public rights-of-way, including the entire right-of-way.
   "Trunkline" pipelines means common carrier pipelines and other main pipelines not included in the definition of gathering lines, expressly including their rights-of-way as defined and established by instruments of record in the office of the county clerk of this county. The term "pipeline" whenever and wherever used herein, except as a part of the preceding definition, means trunkline pipelines, gathering lines and discharge lines.
   "Well" means any hole or bore to any sand, horizon, formation, strata or depth for the purpose of producing any oil, gas, liquid hydrocarbon, brine water, sulphur water or for use as an injection well for secondary recovery of any of the foregoing products. (Ord. 415 Exh. A (part), 1998)