(A) Every application for a permit to drill and operate a well upon a drilling unit shall be in writing, signed by the applicant or by some person duly authorized to sign same on his or her behalf, and it shall be filed with the City Secretary and be accompanied with a filing fee of $500 in cash as a fee to the city.
(B) No application shall request a permit to drill and operate but one well to each reservoir on a drilling unit, and the application shall contain full information, including the following:
(1) The date (year, month, and day) of the application;
(2) Name of the applicant;
(3) Address of the applicant;
(4) Proposed site of the well accompanied by a plat of the drilling unit showing the description of the lots, blocks, or tracts owned or controlled by applicant;
(5) Name of the fee owner or owners;
(6) Name of the lease owner or owners;
(7) Brief description of the land;
(8) The application shall have attached to it a certified or photostatic copy of the deed, oil and gas lease, or drilling contract with the owners of land covering the lot, block, or tracts in the drilling unit over which the applicant has control, together with abstracts of title or certificate of title satisfactory to the City Council, to the end that the application will show what proportion and what parts of the drilling unit the applicant owns in fee, or holds under lease, or drilling contract from the owners, and applicant must own in fee or hold under lease or drilling contract from the owners over 50% of the acreage within a drilling unit before a permit may be issued;
(9) Type of derrick to be used;
(10) Whether the well shall be drilled as an oil or gas well;
(11) The proposed depth of the well;
(12) Motive power of rig that is to be used; and
(13) Within 30 days after the completion of a well within the city limits, the operator shall submit to the City Council copies of the State Railroad Commission Forms 2 and 3, and electric log. This data shall be classified as "secret" by the City Council for a period of six months.
(Ord. 59-311, passed 3-11-1959)