(a) 
For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply, unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
ANSI.
The American National Standards Institute.
API.
The American Petroleum Institute.
City dispatcher.
Any representative situated at the police station.
City official.
When the title of any city official is used herein, the title shall include any duly authorized representative of that official.
Curb line.
The line established by the city for any particular street.
Drilling district.
A tract of land comprising a spacing unit or proration unit, as determined by the railroad commission of the state.
Gathering lines.
All pipelines operated as an incident to the development and operation of oil, gas, or brine sulphur water wells.
Inspector.
The oil and gas inspector appointed by the city council.
Permittee.
The person to whom is issued a permit or certificate for the drilling, operating, and producing of a well under this article, and his or her heirs, legal representatives, successors, and assigns.
Person.
Any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, guardian, executor, administrator, and fiduciary or representative of any kind.
Right-of-way.
Expressly limited to all public rights-of-way or streets or other public property within the city.
Street.
Any street, highway, sidewalk, alley, avenue, recessed parking area, or other public right-of-way, including the entire right-of-way.
Trunkline pipeline.
Common carrier pipelines and other main pipelines not included in the definition of gathering lines, expressly including their rights-of-way as defined and established by instruments of record in the office of the county clerk. The phrase “gathering lines” as used herein shall mean all pipelines operated as an incident to the development and operation of oil or gas fields and secondary recovery projects, and the word “pipeline” whenever and wherever used herein but as a part of the preceding phrases shall mean trunkline pipelines, gathering lines, and discharge lines as hereinabove defined.
Well.
Any hole, bored to any sand, horizon, formation, strata, or depth for the purpose of producing any oil, gas, liquid hydrocarbon, brine water, or sulphur water, or for use as an injection well for secondary recovery, or any of them.
(b) 
All technical or oil and gas industry words or phrases used in this article and not specifically defined shall have that meaning customarily attributable thereto by prudent operators in the oil and gas industry.
(1967 Code, sec. 21-1; Ordinance 252 adopted –/–/–; Ordinance 88-510 adopted 10/11/88; 1994 Code, sec. 118.01)
(a) 
Criminal penalty.
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate or fail to comply with any provision of this article, irrespective of whether or not the verbiage of each section hereof contains the specific language that such violation or failure to comply is unlawful. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article, or any of the provisions of a permit issued pursuant hereto, or who shall fail to comply with the terms hereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall on conviction thereof be punished as provided in section 1.01.009.
(b) 
Suspension or revocation of permit.
In addition to the foregoing penalties, it is further provided that the city council, at any regular or special session or meeting thereof, may, provided that ten days’ notice has been given to the permittee that revocation is to be considered at such meeting, revoke or suspend any permit issued under this article and under which operations are being conducted. In the event that the permittee thereof has violated any provisions of the permit, or this article, and the permit revoked, the permittee may make application to the city council for a reissuance of the permit.
(1967 Code, sec. 21-22; Ordinance 252 adopted –/–/–; Ordinance 88-510 adopted 10/11/88; 1994 Code, sec. 118.99)
(a) 
The city council may appoint an oil and gas inspector, and his or her compensation shall be set by the city council. The inspector may be removed at the will of the city council. It shall be the duty of the oil and gas inspector to enforce the provisions of this article. In the event the city council has determined not to and has declined to appoint an oil and gas inspector, the city building inspector is authorized to and shall serve and act as the oil and gas inspector.
(b) 
Any person who may be aggrieved by any ruling, order, or decision of the oil and gas inspector shall have the right of appeal to the city council from the ruling, order, or decision; provided, however, that any such appeal must be taken, if at all, within ten days immediately following the filing of the rule, order, or decision in records of the office of the oil and gas inspector.
(c) 
The city manager may with the consent of the city council employ a graduate petroleum engineer or technical consultant as may be necessary from time to time to advise and counsel with the inspector and city council concerning the enforcement of the provisions of this article.
(1967 Code, sec. 21-2; Ordinance 252 adopted –/–/–; Ordinance 88-510 adopted 10/11/88; 1994 Code, sec. 118.02)