(A) The City Council is hereby authorized to levy a fee for the permitting, annual licensing, and annual inspection for each well drilled, operated or maintained in the city, along with pipelines, gas processing facilities and other oil and gas related activity. The initial permit fee paid with and accompanying the application in the first instance, shall also include the granting of the remaining of the first year’s license. Each such successive annual license fee paid after the first one shall also cover and include that year’s inspection and permission to continue such permitted activity.
(B) The annual inspection and reporting period shall be from July 1 to June 30.
(C) All fees shall be levied and collected by the City Manager.
(D) Said fees shall be in addition to any other one-time or annual fee required.
(E) In the event that the Oil and Gas Inspector (to be designated by the City Manager) finds during the course of an inspection that any inspection point is in poor quality, there will be a reinspection of the facility after 60 days, or sooner if warranted, in order to ensure compliance. The City Council is hereby authorized to levy a fee for reinspection.
(F) Said annual license shall be in lieu of the annual business license required elsewhere in this code of ordinances.
(G) No new additional oil and gas permits shall be processed for or on behalf of a particular applicant who has outstanding annual inspection and road usage fees obligations to the city as required or authorized in this chapter.
(Ord. 814, passed 6-11-2018) Penalty, see § 113.999