No person shall drill in the city any water well into and remove
water from the Paluxy or Trinity Sands except as provided for in this
division.
[Code 1984, ch. 11, § 2(A)]
Any person desiring to drill any water well and remove water
from the Paluxy or Trinity Sands in the city, may make application
to the city council for such permission and the city council shall
hold a hearing on such application and shall obtain a recommendation
from a competent water engineer familiar with the water problem in
the county, the cost of such investigation and report to be paid by
the person making such application, and after such hearing and necessary
investigation by the city council if it should appear that a necessity
exists that the applicant be permitted to drill such water well and
that if such applicant is not permitted to drill such water well an
unreasonable hardship will be brought upon the applicant and if the
city council further finds that the drilling of such water well by
the applicant will not at the time or in the immediate future in any
way affect, diminish, or interfere with the city's water supply, then
the city council shall grant such applicant a permit for the drilling
of such water well.
[Code 1984, ch. 11, § 2(B)]
