No permit shall be issued for the drilling of a well except upon the ground owned by the applicant or held by the applicant under an oil and gas lease or drilling contract from the owner, giving permission to drill the well. Nothing contained herein, nor any permit issued hereunder, shall be deemed to grant any right or license to the permittee to enter upon or occupy, in any respect, for drilling or production operations, any land except by written permission of the owner.
When a permit is issued, the same shall terminate and become inoperative without any action on the part of the City, unless, within sixty days from the date of issuance, actual drilling of the well has commenced. The cessation of the drilling operation for sixty days shall operate to terminate and cancel the permit, and the well shall be deemed abandoned. Thereafter, no person shall drill or operate any such well within the City without the issuance of another permit.
(Ord. 1973-56. Passed 6-21-73.)