CHAPTER 120: OIL AND GAS WELLS
Section
General Provisions
   120.01   Policy
   120.02   Annual report by operators
   120.03   Location of drilling
   120.04   Pipeline construction
   120.05   Trespassing on drilling site or pipeline right-of-way
Drilling Permits
   120.20   Required
   120.21   Application
   120.22   Plat showing location of well
   120.23   Fee
   120.24   Staking of location of well; change of location
   120.25   Investigation
   120.26   Insurance; surety bond
   120.27   Issuance
   120.28   Permission of owner required for drilling near residences or other structures
   120.29   Repair of damages to streets and public ways
Operation Regulations
   120.45   Compliance
   120.46   Dikes around tanks
   120.47   Location of flow tanks
   120.48   Location of field working tanks
   120.49   Generators and boilers
   120.50   Warning signs
   120.51   Premises to be kept clean
   120.52   Open earthen storage
   120.53   Tanks to be gas-tight and vented
   120.54   Forges or open lights inside derricks
   120.55   Pipelines across highways
   120.56   Installation of electric light and power
   120.57   Blowout preventers
   120.58   Elimination of fire hazards; waste disposal
   120.59   Fences
Statutory reference:
   Oil and gas generally, see Tex. Natural Resources Code §§ 81.001 et seq.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 120.01 POLICY.
   The City Commission hereby declares it to be the policy of the city to protect the health, safety, welfare and comfort of the resident citizens and all other persons that might at any time be in the city and, at the same time, to permit the development of industry and natural resources within the city for the general benefit of the public.
(1998 Code, § 50-61)
§ 120.02 ANNUAL REPORT BY OPERATORS.
   (A)   Each operator of a producing oil and gas well within the city shall file a written report annually with the Director of Transportation and Planning containing the following information:
      (1)   Name and address of the operator;
      (2)   Names and addresses of all owners of interests, including royalty and working interests; and
      (3)   A plat showing the tract upon which the well is located, the location of the well thereon and the location of battery tanks.
   (B)   This report shall be due on or before February 1 of each year and shall cover the operations of the previous calendar year.
(1998 Code, § 50-63) (Ord. 13-23, passed 8-7-2013)
§ 120.03 LOCATION OF DRILLING.
   (A)   All oil and gas well drilling shall be from the location of any other existing well or within a radius of not more than 50 feet of such existing wells.
   (B)   Division (A) above shall apply, however, only to acreage which has been subdivided into homesites, the size of which is one-acre tracts or less. Whenever acreage has been so subdivided, the provisions of division (A) above shall apply when the plat thereof has been filed for record in the office of the County Clerk.
   (C)   (1)   It shall be unlawful for any person to drill a well in the body of water within the confines of the Texas City/LaMarque Hurricane Protection Levee known as Moses Lake or Dollar Bay.
      (2)   Nothing herein, however, shall prohibit slant drilling from a body of land into Moses Lake or Dollar Bay.
(1998 Code, § 50-64) (Ord. 99-78, passed 1-19-2000; Ord. 00-24, passed 3-15-2000) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 120.04 PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION.
   No pipelines for the transportation of oil and gas from drilled wells shall be constructed or laid in addition to the pipelines now in use as of 4-11-1956, except on rights-of-way owned by the operators of such existing wells or upon the designated drilling tracts set forth in this chapter and upon rights-of-way necessary to connect well sites to present lines.
(1998 Code, § 50-65) Penalty, see § 10.99
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