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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)
(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)
(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
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
It shall be unlawful for any person to trespass on any properties, or to enter onto the oil or gas well drilling sites or their flowline rights-of-way, other than from an existing street or dedicated highway used by the public and for the convenience of the public.
(1998 Code, § 50-66) Penalty, see § 10.99
DRILLING PERMITS
It shall be unlawful for any person to drill or commence to drill a well for oil or gas within the city or to work upon or assist in any way in the prosecution of the drilling of any such well without first obtaining a permit for the drilling, completion and operation of such well from the city.
(1998 Code, § 50-81) Penalty, see § 10.99
Every application for a permit required by the provisions of this subchapter shall be in writing, signed by the applicant or by some person duly authorized to sign the application on his or her behalf, and shall state:
(A) Whether the well shall be drilled as an oil or gas well;
(B) The proposed drilling depth;
(C) The drilling block and the location of the proposed well, which shall include the name of the fee owner, the name of the lease owner, a brief description of the land and a detailed plat showing the location of all battery tanks and the like; and
(D) Any other information the Director of Transportation and Planning may consider pertinent to the issuance of the permit.
(1998 Code, § 50-82) (Ord. 13-23, passed 8-7-2013)
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