No permittee engaged in the drilling operation of an oil and/or gas well within the city shall permit gas to escape into the air or to flare or burn gas from a torch or any similar means within the city, except that gas may be burned for a limited time when necessary to complete an oil and/or gas well upon the original completion or upon the re-completion of workover jobs upon oil and/or gas wells so long as the same does not constitute a fire hazard to the property of others within the vicinity of the oil and/or gas well.
(Ord. 106, passed 2-19-1980; Am. Ord. 2010-007, passed 7-20-2010) Penalty, see § 10.99