No well shall be drilled within the city limits without properly equipping the surface casing when set with at least one master valve, and without properly equipping the protection easing when set with at least one master valve and one fluid-operated ram type, blow-out preventer; and without properly equipping the production casing during completion operations and workover operations with at least one master valve and at least one fluid-operated ram type blow-out preventer. On each well drilled a valve cock or kelly cock shall be installed on the kelly used. Each blow-out preventer shall test 6,000 pounds and its mechanical operation shall be tested at least once every eight-hour period and all control equipment shall be in good working condition and order at all times. It is provided, however, that in noncongested areas or for other reasons he or she may feel valid, the Oil and Gas Well Inspector, if it is evidenced to him or her by the permittee or operator that the well completion is to be consistent with safe and acceptable completion methods, he or she may, in his or her discretion, recommend to the Common Council for approval the waiver of all or any part of the requirements set forth in this section.
(Prior Code, § 18-15)