(A) At least ten days prior to the date of hearing on the application, a copy of notice in the form hereinafter prescribed shall be sent by registered mail to each owner and lessee of lots, blocks, and tracts in the drilling unit not owned by, or under lease to, the applicant, addressed to the last known address of the land or lease owners, if known to the applicant; and a copy of the notice shall likewise be published at the cost of applicant in every issue of an official paper of the city, for ten days prior to the date of the hearing, if any; otherwise, to be posted as required by law.
(B) If the official paper be published weekly, the publication shall be made in one issue thereof before date of hearing. The notice shall state the lot and block number on which the applicant is asking for a permit to drill and the date and place of hearing, and shall be in words and figures as follows:
"Notice is hereby given that _____________________ acting under and pursuant to the terms and provisions of AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE DRILLING COMPLETION AND OPERATION OF OIL WELLS WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF WILLIS, TEXAS, AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, being Ordinance No. _____, did, on the _____ day of __________ ,__, file with the City Secretary of the City of Willis an application for a permit to drill a well for oil and/or gas upon Lot No. ____, Block No. _____, Willis Townsite, in a drilling unit of _____ acres, described as follows:
(Description)
A hearing upon such application will be held in the office of the City Secretary of the City of Willis, Texas, at __________, on the _____ day of _________,__, at ____.M.
________________
Applicant."
(C) Proof of notice shall be made by the applicant by filing with the City Secretary an affidavit of the printer or publisher of the paper in which the notice is published containing a copy of the notice, and stating the issue in which, and period of time during which the notice was published, and an affidavit of the applicant showing the date and persons to whom, and the addresses to which the notice was mailed by the applicant, and proof that the addresses are the last addresses of the persons involved known to the applicant.
(D) At the time fixed in the notice a hearing on the application shall be held in the office of the City Secretary.
(Ord. 59-311, passed 3-11-1959)