(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