717.12 PIPELINE INSTALLATION; APPROVAL AND DEPOSIT.

   (a)   All tanks for oil storage shall be erected and maintained outside the corporate limits of the City. In no instance shall storage tanks be permitted closer than 200 feet to any building of any type within the City.

   (b)   Council may in its discretion allow any permittee to lay the pipeline from its drilling site to its oil tank storage area on public property. A plot must be submitted, at the time an application for a drilling permit is made, showing clearly the location of the pipeline between the drilling site and oil tank storage area. Council must approve the location of the line and may in its absolute discretion require a change of route, in whole or in part, for such pipeline. In all instances where the pipeline crosses private property, easements must be acquired for the pipeline and proof of same filed with an application for a drilling permit.

   (c)   Prior to actual laying of a pipeline, Council may require the permittee to deposit with the City a sum of money considered adequate to restore all property in the path of the pipeline to the same condition it was prior to laying such pipeline. The cost of laying and maintaining a pipeline shall be borne entirely by the permittee. Upon restoring property in the path of the pipeline to the condition it was prior to the laying of such pipeline, the deposit will be returned to the permittee on the order of the Director of Public Service and Safety. If any portion of the job of restoring property to a proper condition is considered inadequate, Council may, on notice to the permittee of its failure, proceed to have the work done and use the deposit to pay any expense of any type incurred in restoring such property to its original condition.

(Ord. 64-7. Passed 4-21-64.)