(a) Installation and Maintenance of Electrical Equipment. Installation and maintenance of electrical equipment shall conform to the National Electrical Code or standards established by the Office of Oil and Gas. In all cases, the strictest code shall apply.
(b) Location of Internal Combustion Engines, Fired Equipment, Open Flames, Etc.; Exceptions. No internal combustion engine, storage tanks, boilers, fired equipment or open flames except welding supervised by the production foreman or safety supervisors shall be located closer than twenty-five feet to a producing well. Internal combustion engines and their fuel tanks, used in production and servicing of oil wells, are exempt from the above provisions. Provisions relating to location of storage tanks may be altered at the discretion of the City Manager, after consideration of the special features, such as: topographical conditions, nature of occupancy and proximity to buildings on adjoining property, height and character of construction of such buildings, capacity and construction of proposed tanks, character of liquids to be stored, degree of private fire protection to be provided and facilities of the Fire Department to comply with flammable liquid fires.
(c) Mufflers on Engines Required; Escape of Flames, Sparks, Etc.; Excess Noise. The engines used in connection with any service, production or maintenance equipment of any well shall be equipped with an exhaust muffler to prevent excessive or unusual noise. Excessive or unusual noise is defined as that noise level which would be violative of any existing or future federal, State or local governmental statute, regulation or rule governing noise levels. Means shall be provided on all engines used during service, production or maintenance operations to prevent the escape of flames, sparks, ignited carbon and soot.
(d) Venting of Gases Prohibited. The venting or release of flammable gases or vapors from a production site is prohibited.
(e) Waste Control of Production Site.
(1) No person shall permit the discharge of any liquid containing crude petroleum or its products into or upon any street, public highway, sanitary sewer, drainage ditch, storm drain, flood-control channel or natural waterway.
(2) No person shall deposit, place, throw, divert or in any manner dispose of or to cause or permit to be deposited, placed, thrown, diverted or in any manner disposed of, within the area affected by this article, any water produced or arising from drilling operations and containing more than one hundred grains of salt content per gallon, or any other mineral or material which may substantially injure or damage the soil, plant life or surface or subsurface water supply, into, along or upon any land, premises or place within the area affected by this article in such manner that any portion thereof may contact any fresh water pond, stream, river or tributary thereto, or percolate or penetrate to any subsurface strata containing water that might be suitable for irrigation or domestic purposes.
(3) No person shall permit any oil, waste oil, refuse or waste material to be on the surface of the ground, under, around or near any oil well, equipment, tank or building, except within a tank, covered concrete pit or catchment basin.
(4) All land within twenty-five feet of any oil well, flammable liquid tank or other appurtenances to any such well shall be, at all times, kept free and clear of dry weeds, grass, rubbish or other combustible debris. When this distance is not sufficient to provide reasonable fire safety, a greater distance may be required by the City Manager.
(f) Smoking Prohibited in Certain Areas. No person shall smoke or cause, permit or allow another person to smoke within fifty feet of any well, tank location or any area contaminated by oil or waste gas.
(g) Fire Extinguishers Required. A minimum of two fire extinguishers shall be maintained at all oil well locations where service, production, maintenance or repair operations are being conducted. Each extinguisher shall have a minimum classification of "20-B", as prescribed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters.
(h) Ignition of Gases. Approved means of ignition shall be provided whenever hydrocarbon gases are released to the air through flares. In no case are wells to be flared in excess of three days per fracture. (Passed 11-20-81)