(A) It shall be unlawful for any person in connection with the drilling or reworking operations of any well within the city limits to take and to complete any drill stem test or tests except during daylight hours and then only if the well effluent, during the test is produced through an adequate oil and gas separator to storage tanks, and the effluent remaining in the drill pipe at the time the tool is closed is flushed to the surface by circulating drilling fluid down the annulus and up the drill pipe.
(B) Fracturing of a well formation shall be done during daylight hours and the permittee or operator shall be fully responsible for any and all resulting damage to underground city water connections as well as city owned or privately owned under ground sewer or drain tiles, and all public utility lines. Upon the completion of the fracture and during the period in which the well is flowed open to relieve the well bore of fracture fluid, it shall be the responsibility of the permittee and operator to confine’s such flow of fracture fluid to the immediate well location by means of suitably sized flow lines or in such other manner as to ensure that adjacent property and the public safety are not endangered. It is further provided however that in noncongested areas the Oil and Gas Well Inspector may, in his or her discretion, recommend to the Common Council for approval the waiver of the requirements set forth in this section.
(Prior Code, § 18-17) Penalty, see § 155.99