(a) 
For the purposes of this article, the following words and terms, wherever and whenever used or appearing herein, shall have the scope and meaning hereafter defined and set out in connection with each.
(b) 
All technical or oil and gas industry words or phrases used herein and not specifically defined shall have that meaning customarily attributable thereto by prudent operators in the oil and gas industry.
City dispatcher.
Any representative situated at the city police station.
Curbline.
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 state railroad commission, oil and gas division.
Gathering lines, trunklines, pipelines.
“Gathering lines” means all pipelines operated as an incident to the development and operation of oil, gas and/or brine, sulphur water wells. “Trunkline pipeline” means 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 means all pipelines operated as an incident to the development and operation of oil and/or gas fields and secondary recovery projects; the word “pipeline” whenever and wherever used herein but as a part of the preceding phrases means trunkline pipelines, gathering lines and discharge lines as hereinabove defined.
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 heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns.
Right-of-way.
Expressly limited to public rights-of-way or streets or other public property within the city.
Well.
Any hole or holes, bore or bores, to any sand, horizon, formation, strata or depth, for the purpose of producing any oil, gas, liquid hydrocarbon, brine water, sulphur water or for use as an injection well for secondary recovery, CO2, tertiary or other form of recovery.
(Ordinance 508, sec. 1, adopted 5/27/63; Ordinance 980, sec. 1, adopted 7/9/96; 1972 Code, sec. 19-1)
The city council shall appoint an oil and gas inspector, and his 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. The oil and gas forms inspector is to be notified five (5) days in advance of the rig move-in date. The inspection [inspector] will be provided with all RRC [reports and forms] required for drilling and completion of the well, or any other reports or forms the inspector may deem necessary to perform his duties under this article and will be furnished with the name and phone numbers of the local supervisor and contract personnel.
(Ordinance 508, sec. 2, adopted 5/27/63; Ordinance 980, sec. 2, adopted 7/9/96; 1972 Code, sec. 19-2)
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 such ruling, order or decision; provided, however, any such appeal must be taken, if at all, within ten (10) days immediately following the filing of such rule, order or decision in the records of the office of the oil and gas inspector.
(Ordinance 508, sec. 2, adopted 5/27/63; 1972 Code, sec. 19-3)
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate or fail to comply with any provision hereof, irrespective of whether 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 fined as provided in section 1.01.009; and the violation of each separate provision of this article, and of such permit, shall be considered a separate offense, and each day’s violation of each separate provision thereof shall be considered a separate offense. In addition to the foregoing penalties, the city council, at any regular or special session or meeting thereof, may, provided ten (10) 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 the permittee thereof has violated any provision of such permit, or this article. In the event the permit is revoked, the permittee may make application to the city council for a reissuance of such permit.
(Ordinance 508, sec. 19, adopted 5/27/63; 1972 Code, sec. 19-21)