The City Council shall have the power, and reserve the authority, to refuse any application for a permit where, by reason of the location of the proposed well and the character and value of the permanent improvements already erected on the tract in question, or adjacent thereto, and the use to which land and surroundings are adapted for civic purposes, or for sanitary reasons, the drilling of an oil or gas well would be a serious disadvantage to either the health, safety, morals or welfare of the city and its inhabitants as a whole. When a permit shall be refused for any of these reasons, but not otherwise, the deposit of cash made with the application shall be returned to the applicant.
(Ord. passed 6-20-1989)