(a) 
Permit required to drill or install facility.
It shall be unlawful for any person, acting either for himself or as agent, employee, independent contractor, or servant for any person, to knowingly drill any well or to install any water or gas repressurizing or injection facility within the city without a permit having first been issued by the authority of the city council in accordance with the terms of this article.
(b) 
Scope of drilling permit.
When a permit has been issued for the drilling of a well, such permit shall constitute sufficient authority for drilling, operation, production, gathering of production, maintenance, repair, reworking, testing, plugging and abandonment of the well, and for the construction and use of all facilities reasonably necessary or convenient in connection therewith, including gathering lines and discharge lines, by the permittee and his employees, agents and contractors, any zoning ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding; provided, however, a new or supplemental permit shall be obtained before such well may be deepened or completed in a geological formation in which it was originally completed and before it may be used for repressurizing or injection of water, gas or other substance.
(c) 
Scope of permit for installation of trunkline, pipeline, water or gas repressurizing or injection facility.
When a permit has been issued for the installation of any trunkline, pipeline or water or gas repressurizing or injection facility, such permit shall constitute sufficient authority for the construction, operation, maintenance and conversion of existing wells to injection wells and repair.
(d) 
Existing wells, pipelines or facilities.
As to all wells and pipelines and water and repressurizing or injection facilities and such other facilities as may be covered by this article existing within the city on the effective date of Ordinance No. 508, or which are in existence at the time the land upon which the same are situated in annexed to the city, no permit or filing fee shall be required; but the oil and gas inspector shall inspect such facilities, and if satisfied that such conform to standards and practices generally recognized, observed, and followed by the oil and gas industry and can be operated in such a manner to insure public safety, shall issue a certificate in writing that such wells and facilities conform to the requirements hereof; provided, however, the operator of such existing well or facilities shall comply with the bond and insurance provisions hereof. The oil and gas inspector may request completion and plugging records of existing wells.
(e) 
Permit limited to one well, line or facility.
No permit shall authorize the drilling of more than one (1) well or the installation of more than one (1) trunkline pipeline or more than one (1) water and/or gas repressurizing or injection facility.
(f) 
Water production.
First casing shall be set and cement circulated at a depth or four hundred fifty (450) feet. Second casing shall be set and cement circulated at a depth of seventeen hundred (1700) feet. Drilling mud shall be fresh water with gel and loss circulation material shall be used to control fluid loss.
(Ordinance 508, sec. 3, adopted 5/27/63; Ordinance 980, secs. 3–6, adopted 7/9/96; 1972 Code, sec. 19-4)
Every application for a permit to drill a well or to install a water and/or gas repressurizing or injection facility, or trunkline pipeline, and the re-entering and deepening to a deeper formation of a well, shall be in writing, signed by the applicant or some person duly authorized to sign on his behalf; and it shall be filed with the city secretary and accompanied by a filing fee in the amount set forth in the fee schedule in appendix A of this code, or the amount set by the city council, in cash, cashier’s check or certified check, made payable to the city.
(Ordinance 508, sec. 4, para. 1, adopted 5/27/63; Ordinance 576 adopted 1/9/67; Ordinance 605, sec. 2, adopted 1/14/69; Ordinance 979, sec. 1, adopted 6/10/96; 1972 Code, sec. 19-5; Ordinance adopting 2023 Code)
A separate application shall be required for each trunkline pipeline, well and each water and/or gas repressurizing or injection facility. The application shall include full information, including the following:
(1) 
The date of the application.
(2) 
The name of the applicant.
(3) 
The address of the applicant.
(4) 
Proposed site of the trunkline pipeline, the well (including proposed location of gathering lines), or the water and/or gas repressurizing or injection facility, including:
(A) 
Name of the lease owner.
(B) 
Accurate description of the land.
(C) 
Location with respect to property lines, right-of-way boundaries, and the grades.
(5) 
Type of derrick (if any) to be used.
(6) 
The proposed depth of the well.
(7) 
Detailed explanation of operating pressures of all pipelines and facilities.
(8) 
Location of compressor, compressor control, or safety devices with explanation of operating characteristics of each.
(9) 
The name of the person or persons to be notified in case of an emergency.
(10) 
If any pipeline connection with such well is to have pressures in excess of two hundred fifty (250) psi (pounds per square inch), the application shall include details and specifications of the safety provisions and equipment.
(11) 
Proposed hole size, casing program, water and mud program, and cementing program.
(12) 
Attached copy of approved state railroad commission oil and gas division Form 1 and state commission on environmental quality surface casing letter.
(Ordinance 508, sec. 4, adopted 5/27/63; Ordinance 980, secs. 7, 8, adopted 7/9/96; 1972 Code, sec. 19-6)
(a) 
The city council, within twenty (20) days after the filing of the application for a permit to drill a well, [install a] trunkline pipeline or a permit to install water flooding, gas injection, or any primary or secondary recovery system for the production of oil, gas, and liquid hydrocarbons, brine water and sulphur water, and tertiary, shall determine whether the application complies in all respects with the provisions of this article; and if it does and is approved, the city council shall then fix the amount of the principal of the bond and insurance provided herein, and shall issue a permit for the drilling of the well or the installation of the facilities applied for.
(b) 
Each permit shall:
(1) 
By reference have incorporated therein all the provisions of this article with the same force and effect as if this article were copied verbatim in such permit.
(2) 
Specify the location of the proposed well, injection facility, trunkline pipeline or surveyor’s plat, with particularity to lot number, block number, name of addition or subdivision, section line or other available correct legal description.
(3) 
Contain and specify that the term of the permit shall be for a period of one (1) year from the date of the permit and so long thereafter as oil and gas are produced or until such time as the permittee has permanently abandoned the operation of such well or facility for which the permit was issued.
(4) 
Contain and specify such other terms and provisions as may be necessary in a particular case to accomplish the purpose of this article.
(5) 
Specify any hole size, casing program, cementing program, water and mud program, and total depth to which the well (if any) will be drilled.
(6) 
Contain and specify that no actual operations shall be commenced until the permittee shall file and have approved an indemnity bond in the designated principal amount as so determined by the city council or has complied with the bond and insurance provisions of this article.
(c) 
Such permit, in triplicate original, shall be signed by the city secretary, and prior to delivery to the permittee shall be signed by the permittee (with one (1) original to be retained by the city, a copy to the inspector, and the others by the permittee); and when so signed, it shall constitute the permittee’s drilling and installation license, as well as the contractual obligation of the permittee to comply with the terms of such permit and bond and of this article.
(d) 
If the permit be refused, or if the applicant notifies the city council in writing that he does not elect to accept the permit as tendered and wishes to withdraw his application, or if the bond of the applicant be not approved, or if the applicant notifies the city council in writing that he wishes to withdraw his application, then upon the happening of such event the cash deposit provided for to be filed with the application to drill a well shall be returned to the applicant, except there shall be retained therefrom by the city two hundred dollars ($200.00) or an amount set by the city council as a process fee.
(Ordinance 508, sec. 5, adopted 5/27/63; Ordinance 980, secs. 9–13, adopted 7/9/96; 1972 Code, sec. 19-7)
In the event of a failure of a permittee to comply with any provisions of this article the oil and gas inspector shall issue in writing a notice to the permittee of the nature of the noncompliance and stating a reasonable time necessary to gain compliance. After lapse of such reasonable time, if compliance has not been made, the city council may suspend the permit for a period of time or cancel the permit.
(Ordinance 508, sec. 6, adopted 5/27/63; 1972 Code, sec. 19-8)
(a) 
Once any well has either been completed as a producer or abandoned as a dry hole, it shall be unlawful for any person to drill such well to a deeper or different geological formation than that reached in the prior drilling operations without the permittee as to such well obtaining a supplemental permit after filing a supplemental application with the city secretary accompanied by a fee in the amount set forth in the fee schedule in appendix A of this code or a fee set by the city council, specifying:
(1) 
The condition of the well and the casing therein.
(2) 
The depth to which it is proposed that such well be deepened.
(3) 
The proposed casing and cementing programs to be used in connection with the proposed deepening operation.
(b) 
In the event the city council is satisfied that such well may be deepened with the same degree of safety as existed in the original well, a supplemental permit may be issued to the permittee authorizing the deepening and operation of the well to such specified depth as applied for. In any deeper drilling or any deeper completion of any deeper production operations the permittee shall comply with all provisions contained in this article and applicable to drilling, completion, operation and production of a well or wells.
(c) 
If the operator has removed the derrick and drilling equipment from the location, the supplemental permit shall comply with the requirements specified for a permit in section 5.04.034.
(Ordinance 508, sec. 7, adopted 5/27/63; Ordinance 980, secs. 14–16, adopted 7/9/96; 1972 Code, sec. 19-9; Ordinance adopting 2023 Code)