05-11-15 Regular Meeting of La Porte City Council

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(3)Contain and specify that the term of such permit shall be for a period of 180 days from the date of the permit and as long thereafter as the permittee is engaged in drilling operations with no cessations of such operations for more than 90 days, or oil or gas is produced in commercial quantities from the well drilled pursuant to such permit, provided that if at any time after discovery of oil or gas the production thereof in commercial quantities shall cease, the term shall not terminate if the permittee commences additional reworking operations within 90 days thereafter, and if they result in the production of oil or gas, so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced from such well. (4)Contain and specify such conditions as are authorized by this article. (5)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 and conditioned as specified in section 102-158 (b)Such permit, in duplicate originals, shall be signed by the city manager, and prior to delivery to the permittee shall be signed by the permittee (with one original to be retained by the city and one by the permittee). When so signed, the permit shall constitute the permittee's drilling and operating license and the contractual obligation of the permittee to comply with the terms of such permit, such bond and this article. (c)If the permit for the well is refused, or if the applicant notifies the city 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 is not approved and the applicant notifies the city in writing that he wishes to withdraw his application, then, upon the happening of such events, the cash deposit provided for to be filed with the application shall be returned to the applicant, except that there shall be retained therefrom by the city a processing fee in an amount established by the city and listed in appendix A of this Code. (Code 1970, § 16-17; Ord. No. 1659, § 1(16-6), 8-14-89) Sec. 102-160. - Termination. The permit shall terminate without any action on the part of the city unless actual drilling of the well shall have commenced within 180 days from the date of issuance. The cessation for a like period of the drilling operations, or the cessation of the production of oil or gas from the well after production shall have commenced, shall cancel the permit, and the well shall be considered as abandoned for all purposes of this article. It shall be unlawful thereafter to continue the operation or drilling of such well without the issuance of another permit. (Code 1970, § 16-21; Ord. No. 1659, § 1(16-7), 8-14-89) Secs. 102-161—102-180. - Reserved. DIVISION 4. - DRILLING AND OPERATING REGULATIONS Sec. 102-181. - Well location. (a)Subdivisions.No drilling for gas and oil wells in recorded subdivisions shall be allowed. This subsection shall apply only to acreage which has been subdivided into home sites the size of which are one acre or less and the plat has been filed for record in the office of the county clerk. (b)Residences; commercial buildings; schools; city-owned buildings; water wells.No well shall be drilled and no permit shall be issued for any well to be drilled at any location which is nearer than 750 feet of any residence or commercial building without the applicant having first secured the written permission of the owner. No well shall be drilled and no permit shall be issued for any well to be drilled at any location which is nearer than 750 feet of any school campus within the La Porte Page 7