A. It is unlawful and an offense for any person acting either for himself or acting as agent, employee, independent contractor or servant for any person to knowingly drill any well or to install any water or gas repressurizing or injection facility or to construct and operate a gas pipeline within the corporate limits of the city without a permit having first been issued by the authority of the city council in accordance with the terms of this section.
B. When a permit has been issued for the drilling of a well, such permit shall constitute sufficient authority for drilling, operation, production, gathering of production, maintenance, repair, reworking, testing plugging and abandonment of the well, and for the construction and gathering lines and discharge by the permittee and its employees, agent and contractors; provided, however, that a new or supplemental permit shall be obtained before such well may be deepened below the geological formation in which it was originally completed and before it may be used for repressurizing or injection of water or gas.
C. When a permit has been issued for the installation of any trunkline pipeline, water or gas repressurization or injection facility, such permit shall constitute sufficient authority for the construction, operation, maintenance of pipelines and for conversion of existing wells to injection wells and the repair and abandonment of such facility, and for all facilities reasonably necessary or convenient in connection therewith, including gathering lines, by permittee and its employees, agents and contractors.
D. No permit shall authorize the drilling of more than one well or more than one water or gas repressurizing or injection facility. No permit shall authorize the construction and operation of more than the one pipeline described in the permit. (Ord. 415 Exh. A (part), 1998)