Every person who digs, drills, excavates, constructs, owns or controls any abandoned water well or abandoned oil well, and every person owning or having possession of any premises on which any such abandoned well exists, shall either cap or otherwise close the mouth of or entrance to such well in such a manner that such capping or covering cannot be removed by accident or inadvertence, or shall fill such well.
(Prior code § 5-2.1; Ord. 21-1722 § 2)