As used in this chapter:
(a) “Abandoned well” means any producing well which has not been operated for six months, and any drilling operation that has ceased for thirty consecutive days.
(b) "Applicant" means the record owner of the real property, and the owner if different than the record owner and producer, it being the intent that the record owner, owner and producer shall comply with all laws and regulations and shall be treated as jointly and severally responsible for all acts performed in drilling, production and abandonment of oil and gas wells.
(c) "Contractor" means any third party engaged by an owner or producer to conduct drilling, producing or other operations.
(d) "Deleterious matter" means any chemical, salt water, oil field brine, waste oil, waste emulsified oil, basic sediment, mud or injurious substance produced or used in the drilling, development, transportation, refining and processing of oil and gas.
(e) "Division" means the Division of Oil and Gas, Department of Natural Resources, of the State.
(f) "Gas" means all natural gas and other fluid hydrocarbons not herein defined as oil, including condensate. "Condensate" means liquid hydrocarbons that were originally in a gaseous phase in the reservoir.
(g) "Oil" means crude petroleum oil and all other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, that are produced in liquid form by ordinary production methods, but does not include hydrocarbons that were originally in a gaseous phase in the reservoir.
(h) "Oil and gas wells" means all wells for the production or extraction of oil and/or gas.
(i) "Owner" means the person who has the right to drill on a tract or drilling unit, to drill into and produce from a pool and to appropriate the oil and gas that is produced therefrom for himself or herself or for others.
(j) "Permittee" means the person to whom a permit is issued.
(k) "Person" means and includes any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, trust, cooperative or other type of organization.
(l) "Pollution" means the contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of any natural waters of the City, or such discharge of any liquid, gaseous or solid substance into any air or water of the City as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such air or waters harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare; to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational or other beneficial uses; or to livestock, animals or aquatic life;
(m) "Producer" means the owner of a well capable of producing or producing oil or gas, or both, or a person intending to produce an oil and/or gas well. Production shall include transmission of oil and gas within pipelines when used in this chapter.
(n) "Water" or "waters of the City" means all streams, ditches, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, drainage systems and other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the City or any portion thereof.
(o) "Well" means any bore hole, whether drilled or bored, for production, extraction or injection of any gas or liquid mineral, excluding potable water to be used as such, but including natural or artificial brines and oil filled waters.
(Ord. 1986-6. Passed 4-28-87.)