Except as may be otherwise expressly authorized or provided by Council, no well shall be drilled nearer than 500 feet from any church, school or other public building or residence as now established in the City, or nearer than forty feet from the front or street property line of the particular property on which such well is drilled, or nearer than fifty feet from the exterior boundary line of the drilling block upon which the same is located. Council may authorize directional drilling to properly drain any drilling unit when the surface location permissible is such as to prevent proper drainage by a vertically drilled well.
(Ord. 907. Passed 9-26-77; Ord. 1589. Passed 6-12-07.)