(A) It shall be unlawful for any person acting either for himself or herself or acting as agent, employee, independent contractor, or servant of any other person, to commence to drill, to drill, or to operate, any well within the city limits of the city or to work upon or assist in any way in the prosecution or operation of such well without a currently valid permit therefor having first been issued by the authority of the Common Council in accordance with the terms of this chapter.
(B) Further, upon application for such permit from the city, the applicant or permittee shall evidence to the city that in his or her application for a permit to drill for oil or gas from the state’s Bureau of Mines he or she has stated therein that the well is to be drilled within the corporate limits of the city.
(Prior Code, § 18-2) Penalty, see § 155.99