A. All derricks and masts shall be constructed, maintained, and operated pursuant to provisions contained in Section 16.16.070 of this title with the exception that well servicing equipment, including pulling masts and gin poles, shall be removed from the oil operation site within seven days after completion of a servicing operation.
B. Within one hundred twenty days of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this title, no well servicing derrick or mast shall be used on any oil well that is within one hundred feet of a structure used for human occupancy or a public right-of-way unless there is available a steel mat pulling pad, sufficient to prevent tipping under pressure. Subject wells shall be posted with a sign describing this requirement. Following two warning notices from the inspector for failure to use a steel mat, the well shall be provided with a permanent concrete pulling pad.
C. Within one hundred twenty days of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this title, all masts or derricks within one hundred feet of any structure used for human occupancy shall have secured tie downs concreted into the ground for wind guys and guy lines prior to pulling pipe, rods, or tubing. Screw-in tie downs may be used to secure rope lifelines from the tubing board to a point safely away from the well bore. All tie downs shall conform to A.P.I. standards or to an alternate plan approved by the city engineer.
D. Masts or derricks shall be equipped with soft lay cables sufficient in strength to secure mast as wind guys or guy wires for protection against collapse.
E. The use of any single or two-legged gin pole or combination thereof that is not free-standing with hook load is prohibited with the exception of abandonment cases where equipment pipeload is carried on hydraulic jacks and a mast is used to handle joints of pipe or casing.
F. Internal combustion engines shall only be used during servicing operations in those applications for which electrical motors are not appropriate and power generation for these motors require diesel or gasoline generators. The inspector shall approve those applications appropriate, in his discretion, for internal combustion engines for the period of well servicing only and shall determine by field inspection when mufflers or other sound attenuation devices shall be installed. Internal combustion engines (even if muffled) shall be prohibited on all new pumping units installed after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this title. All pumping units shall comply with noise standards of Chapter 9.16 of this code.
G. All vehicles used at well sites for well servicing shall carry fire extinguishers required and approved by the Long Beach fire department.
H. Except in case of emergency well work, well servicing and truck deliveries are prohibited except Monday through Friday, inclusive, from seven a.m. to seven p.m. and except for industrial areas and drill sites as shown on the well servicing map on file in city hall, where oil well servicing shall be permitted on Saturdays and Sundays from nine a.m. to seven p.m.
(Ord. 90-08-1074 § 4 (part))