HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 2939-1959 - Regulatingand Drilling Oil Or Gas Wells Within City Limits - 10/22/1959~.IJff· ' . : . J ORDINANCi"~o~~ !--·~ '. . \Q .. ??-1 ~ ~ · AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE DRILLING OF OIL O~AS EL S A"'l,~ \ . I' ILW\THIN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK; DEFINING CERTAIN
:~ TERMS: PROHIBITING THE DRILLING OR OPERATION OF ANY WELL WITH-
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r OUT A PERMIT.! PROVIDING FOR A FILING FEE TO BE PAID IN CONNECTION
WITH APPLICATION FOR PERMIT; PROVTDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF
I AN OIL AND GAS INSPECTOR; PROVIDING FOR THE TYPE OF EQUIPMENT
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TO BE USED IN DRILLING AND THE MANNER OF DRILLING• COMPLETING~
AND ABANDONING OF OIL OR GAS WEL·LS; PROVIDING THAT VIOLATION OF
II CERTAIN LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS AND CERTAIN REGULATIONS OF
REGULATORY BODIES SHALL BE A VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE; PRO-
VIDING THAT THE INVALIDITY OR UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF ANY PAR-I
TICULAR PROVISION OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL NOT AFFECT THE VALIDITY
OR CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE REMAINING PROVISIONS; PROVIillNG FOR ,
1 A PENALTY. AND THAT PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE ARE CUMULATIVE
OF ALL OTHER ORDINANCES; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLAR-I
ING AN EMERGENCY AND THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDINANCE. -I
WHEREASa the City Commission finds that due to the increase in oil and gas I
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drilling in the City of Lubbock that it would be in the interest of public health,. safe-,
ty, and the general welfare to enact certain regulations with respect thereto; and,
11 WHEREAS,. there is an immediate need for such regulations to protect the
public peace, property~ health,. and safety, which creates an emergency, NOW
1 THEREFORE.
II BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBB.OCK:
SECTION 1. THAT the Lubbock City Code is hereby amended by adding
thereto a new Chapter to be designated Chapter l9A of Volwne I of said code to
be entitled "Oil and Gas Drilling11, which shall read as follows:
"Chapter l9A
OIL AND GAS DRILLING.
Sec. l9A-l DE FIN! TIONS.
For the purposes of this chapter the following words and terms
wherever and whemrver used or appearing herein shall have the scope
and meaning hereinafter defined and set out in connection with each:
(a}
(b)
The word 11we1l11 shall include and mean any hole or
holes,, bore or bore a, to any sand, formatio~ strata
or depth for the purpose of producing and recovering
any oil2 gas1 liquid hydrocarbon, or any of them.
The word "permittee" shall mean the person to whom
is issued a permit for the drilling and ope ration of a
well under this chapter, and his administrators,, exec-
utors,. heirs, successors and a~signs.
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(<:) All technical or oil and gas industry words or phrases
used herein and not specifically defined herein shall
have that me~ning customarily atb:ibutable thereto by
prudent operators in the oil and gas industry.
(d) The word 11lease11 as that term is used herein shall
mean any tract of land sul>ject to an oil7 gas and
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mineral lease or other oil and gas development contract7
or any wtit composed o£ several tracts and leases but
operated as one lease, and any tract of land in which
the tninerals are owned by an operator or someone
holding under it or him.t but which,. due to the free
royalty ownership is developed and operated as a
separate tract.
INSPECTOR: APPOINTMENTJ COMPENSATIONt RE-
MOVAL; DUTIES.
The City Commission may appoint an oil and gas inspector, and
his compensation shall be set by the City Commission. The inspector
may be removed at the will of the City Commission. It shall be the
duty of the oil and gas inspector when so appointed to enforce the pro-
visions of this chapter.
Sec. 19A-3 PERMIT--REQUIRED; ISSUING AUTHORITY.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any per son acting either
for himself or acting as agent, employee, independent contractor7. or
servant of any other person, to commence to drill, to drill, or to oper-
ate any well :Within the city limit-s of the city, or to work upon or assist
in any way in the prosecution or operation of any such well, without a
permit for the drilling and operation of such well having first been
issued by the authority of the City Commis..sion in accordance with
the terms o£ tlis chapter.
Sec. 19A-4 SAME--APPLICATION; FILING FEE.
Every application for a permit to drill and operate a well shall
be in writing, signed by the applii.r;ant or by some person duly autho-
rized to sign on his behalf, and it shall be fil~d with the City Secretary
and be accompanied Vldth a filing fee o£ two hundred fifty dollars in cash.
No application shall request a permit to drill and operate but one well.
The application shall include full information, including the following:
(a) The date of the application;
(b) Name of the applicant;
(c) Address of the applicant;
(d) Proposed site of the well,. including;
(1) Name of the mineral owner and surface owner;
12.) Name of the lease .owner;
(3) Brief description of the landi
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(e) Type of derrick to be used;
(.f) The proposed depth of the well.
Sec. 19A ... 5 SAME--ISSUANCE OR REFUSAL TO ISSUE•
The City Commission, within twenty days after the filing of the
application for a permit to drill and operate a well shall determine
whether or not the application complies in all respects with the pro-
visions of this chapter, and if it does, the City Commission shall
then fi x the amoWlt of the principal of the bond and insurance pro-
vided for in section 19A-9 here ina and shall issue a permit for the
drilling and operation of the well applied for. Each permit issued
under this c~pter shall:
(a) By reference have incorporated therein all the pro-
visions of this chapter with the same force and effect
as if this chapter were copied verbatim in such permit;
(b) Specify the well location with particularity to lot num-
ber:t, block nwnber2 aa.me of addition or subdivision, or
other available correct legal de scription;
(c) Contain and specify that the term of such permit shall
be for a period of one year from the date of the permit
and as long thereafter as the permittee is engaged in
drilling operations with no cessations of such opera ..
tions for more thanninety days~ or oil or gas i.l pro-
duced in commercial quantities from the well drilled
pursuant to such permit; provided,_ if at any time after
discovery of oil or gas the production thereof in com-
mercial quantities shall cease, the term shall not termin-
ate if the permittee commences additional re w..a.rli.il!g
operations within ninety days thereafter, and if they
result in the production of oil or gas11 so long there-
afte r as oil or gas is produced in commercial quanti-
ties from such well;
(d) Contain and specify such conditions as are by this
chapter authorized; 1
{e) Specify the total depth to which the well may be drilled.,
not exceeding the projected depth; not.to exceed 9680
(.} f~~t .. ~_greater depth will require an additional permit
and permit fe e of $100.
(f) Contain and specify that no actual ope ratio.as shall be
commenced until the permittee shall file and have ap-
proved an indemnity bond in the designated principal
amount as so determined by the City Commission and
conditioned as specified in Section 19A-9 hereof.
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); and when so signed shall constitute the permittee1s drilling
. and operating license, and contractual obligation of the permittee to
comply with the terms of such permit, and such bond. and this chapter.
If the permit for the well be refused, or if the applicant notifies
the City Commission in writing that he does not elect to accept the per-
mit as tendered and wishes to withdraw his application, or if the bond of
the applicant be not approved and the applicant notifies the City Commission
in writing that he wishes to withdraw his application, then upon the :hap-
pening of such an event, 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 one hundred dollars as a processing fee.
Sec. 19A-6 SAME--TERMINATION.
When a permit shall have been issue~ the same shall termi-
nate and become inoperative without any action on the part of the city;
unless within ninety days from the date of issuance, actual drilling of
the well shall have commenced. 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 operate to
terminate and cancel the permit, and the well shall be considered as
abandoned for all purposes of this chapter, and it shall be unlawful
thereafter to continue the operation or drilling of such well without
the issuance of another permit.
Sec. 19A-7 SAME-... SUPPLEMENTAL FOR DEEP DRILLING;
Once any well has either been complete<:! as a producer or
abandoned as a dry hole, it shall be unlawful and an offense for any ~~-·•---~
person to drill such well to a deeper depth than that reached in the
prior drilling operations without the permittee as to such well ob-
taining a supplemental permit after filing a supplemental applica-
tion with the City Secretary specifying:
(a) The then condition of the well and the casing therein;
{b) The depth to which it is proposed such well be deepened;
(c) The proposed casing program to be used in the connection
with proposed deepening operations;
(d) Evidence of adequate current tests showing that the
casing strings in such well currently pass the same
tests as are in this chapter provided for in case of the
drilling of the original well.
In the event the City Commission 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 without additinnal filing fee to the
permittee authorizing the deepening and operation of the well to such
specified depth as apll_i!ed for. In any deeper drilling or any deeper
completion of any deeper production operations the permittee shall com-
ply with all other provisions contained in this chapter and applieable to
the drilling, completion and operation of a well or wells.
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Sec. 19A-8 SAME--FOR CONDUITS ON STREETS AND ALLEYS:
REQUIRED.
No permittee shal1 make any excavations or construct any lines for
the conveyance of fuel, water or minerals, on. Wlder or through the streets
and alley s of the city~ without express permission of the City Commission,
in writin g, and then only in strict compliance with the ordinances of the city.
Sec:. 19A-9 BOND AND INSURANCE; REQUIRED: AMOUNTS.
In the event a permit be issued by the City Commission under the
terms of this chapter for the drilling and operation of a well, no actual
drilling operations shall be commenced Wltil the permittee shall file with
the City Secretary a bond and a certificate of insurance, as follows:
(a) A bond in the principal sum of such amount as has been
determined by the City Commission. but not to be less
than twenty-five thousand dollars the bond shall be exe-
cuted by a reliable insurance company authorized to do
business in the State of Texas, as surety,. and with appli-
cant as principal, running to the city for the benefit of
the city and all persons concerned, conditioned that the
permiUe.e will comply with the terms and conditions of
this chapter in the drilling and operation of the well.
Such bond shall become effective on or before the date
it is filed with the City Secretary and remain in force
and effect for at least a period of six months subsequent
to the expiration of the term of the permit issued; and
in additionilt the bond will be conditioned that the per-
mittee will promptly pay all fines, penalties and other
assessments imposed upon permittee by reason of his
breach of any of the terms, provisions and conditions
of this chapter, and that the permittee will promptly
re &ore the streets and sidewalks and other public prop-
erty of tae city which may be disturbed or damaged in
the operations, to their former condition; and that the
permittee will promptly clear all premises of all
litter, trash, waste, and othe r subatalmcee used.t allow-
ed, or occurring in the -drilling or producing operations~
and will,. after abandonment, grade, level and restore
such property to the same surface condition, as nearly
as possible, as existed when operations for the drilling
of the well or wells were first commenced; and that the
permittee will indemnify and hold the city harmless
from any and all liability growing out of or aUributable
to the granting of such permit. If at any time the city
commission shall deem any permittee1 s bond to be in-
sufficient for any reason. it may require the permittee
to file a new bond.
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If, after completion of a well,, permittee has complied
with all of the provisions of this chapter, such as to
removing derrick, clearing premises, etc. he may
apply ~tp the City c 'ommission to have the bond reduced
to a lillll'n o£ not less than ten thousand dollars for the
remainae r of the time the well produces without re-
working. During reworking operations the amount of
the bond shall be maintained at $101 000.
(b) In addition to the bond required in paragraph (a) of
this section~ the permittee shall carry a policy or
policies of standard comprehensive public liability
insurance1 including contractual liability covering
bodily injuries and property damage, naming the
permittee and the city; in an insurance company
authorized to do business with the State of Texas.
Such policy or policies in the aggregate shall provide
for the following minimum coverages:
(1) Bodily it:Plries one hundred thousand dollars one
person; three hundred thousand dollars one acci-
dent.
(Z) Property damage two hundred thousand dollars.
Permittee shall file with the City Secretary cer-
tificates of such insurance as above stated, and
shall obtain the written approval thereof by the
City Manager, who shall act thereon within ten
days from the date of such filing. The insurance
policy or policies shall not be cancelled without
written notice to the City Secretary at least ten
days prior to the effective date of such cancella-
tion.. In the event such insurance policy or policies
are cancelled, the permit granted shall terminate,.
and permittee• a rights to operate under such per-
mit shall cease until permittee files additional
insurance as provided herein. If, after completion
_ of a well1 permittee has complied with all of the
provisions of this chapter, such as to removing
derrick, clearing premises, etc. he may apply to
the City C.Qnunis.:sion. to have. :B~hdn.s:m-iUlce.: ·policies
reduced as tallows:
(A) Bodily injuries,_ fifty thousand dollars one
person; one hundred thousand dollars, one
accident.
{B) Property damage, fifty thousand dollars, for
the remainder of the time such well produces
without reworking. During reworking opera-
tions the amount of the insurance policy or
policies shall be increased to the original amount.
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S~c. 19A-10 IN STREETS AND ALLEYS OBSTRUCTIONS; PERMIT.
No well shall be drilled and no permit shall be issued !or any well
to be drilled at any location which is within any of the streets or alleys of the
city:J ox in projected highway and street or alley; and no street or alley shall
be blocked or encumbered or closed in any drilling or production operation
except by special permit by order of the City Commission. and then only
te rmporaril y.
Sec. 19A-ll PROXIMITY OF WELL TO RESIDENCES; PERMISSION.;
No well shall be drilled and no permit shall be issued for any well
to be drilled at any location which is nearer than one hundred and fifty feet
of any residence or commercial building without the applicant having first
secured the written pernU.ssion of the owner or owners thereof. ( )
Sec. 19A-1Z DERRICK AND RIG; TYPES PROHIBITED: ALLOWING TO
REMAIN; WATCHMAN.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to use or operate
in connection with the drilling or reworking of any well within the city limits,
any wooden derrick or any steam-powered rig, and all engines shall be
equipped with adequate mufflers. No person shall permit any drilling rig
or derrick to remain on the premises or ·drilling site for a period longer
than sixty days after completion or abandonment of the well. At all times
from .;the start of erection of a derrick~ or a mast:J or a gin-pole, until
the well is abandoned and plugged or completed as a producer and enclosed
with a fence as herein provided, the permittee shall keep a watchman on
duty on the premises at all times; provided:J however, it shall not be nece-
ssary to keep an extra watclunan on duty on the premises when other work-
men of permittee are on such premises.
Sec. 19A-13 PITS; REQUIRED TYPE; REMOVAL.;
Steel slu~h pits shall be used in connection with all drilling and
reworking operations. Such pits and contents shall be removed from the 1
premises and the drilling site within thirty days after completion of the well.
No earthen slush pits shall be used~ which may be calculat_ed to con-
taminate, pollute or render unpal.iil:able, ~derground and percolating
water, and then only on reworking operations.
Sec. 19A-14 OPERATIONS AND EQUIPMENT; BEST PRACTICES; STAN-
BARDS•
All drilling and operation at any well performed by a permittee
under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with the best practices
of the reasonably prudent operator in the Permian Basin area. All casing,
valves, and blow-out preventer sa drilling fluid, tubing, bradenhead,
Christmas tree:. and well head connections shall be of a type and quality
consistent with the best practices of such reasonably prudent operator.
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<Setting and cementing casing and rwming drill stem tests shall be performed
in a manner and at a time consistent with the best practices of such reason-
ably prudent operation. Each permittee under this chapter shall observe and
follow the recommendations and/ or regulations of the American Petroleum
Institute and the Railroad Commission of the State of Texas.
Sec. 19A-15 CLEANLINESS AND SANITATION.;
The premises shall be kept in a clean and sanitary conditio~ free
from rubbish of every character1 to the satisfaction of the health officer of
the city~ at all times drilling operations or reworking operations are being
conductec4 and as long thereafter as oil and/or gas is being produced there-
from. It shall be unlawful for any permittee, his agent or employee to per-
mit within the corporate limits of the city any mu~ water, waste oil, slush
or other waste matter from any slush pit. storage tank, or oil and/or gas
well located within the corporate limits of the city, or from any premises
within the city, developed or being developed for oil and/or gas purposes,to
,scape into the alleys, streets, lots, land or leases within the corporate limits of
the city.
Sec. 19A-16 MUFFLERS; REQUIRED; ..... _ --~ 7.. _..:. --------..-...::..."""'·---· -----·--
Motive power for all operations after completion of drilling operation
shall be electricity~ or properly muffled gas, gasoline or Diesel engines.
Sec. 19A-17 STORAGE TANKS, SEPARATORS; TYPES; REQUIREMENTS.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to use, construct or
operate in connection with any producing well within the city limits, any crud
oil storage tanks except to the extent of two low type steel tanks for oil sto-
rage,. not exceeding five hundred barrels capacity each and so constructed
and maintained as to be vapor tight. A permittee may use, construct and
operate a steel conventional separator'~~ and such other steel tanks and appur
tenances as are necessary for treating oil with each of such facilities to be
so constructed and maintained as to be vapor tight. Each oilt gas separator
shall be equipped with both a regulation pressure relief safety valve and a
. bursting head. All such tanks and separators shall be placed above ground
and the tanks shall be placed upon a suitable earth or concrete pad.
The tank or tanks shall be enclosed within a conventional type fire
wall constructed of compacted earth; sufficient water shall be used during
the fire wall construction to assure adequate compaction.
The fire wall enclosing the tanks shall have a minimum capacity
equal to two times the volwne of the tanks enclosed.
The top or crown of the fire wall shall have a normal height of three
feet above normal ground elevation. The location of the tank site shall be
approved by the city oil and gas inspector.
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The tanks shap be recessed within the fire wall enclosure to such depth
tpat will assure them being practically 11sight clear11 when viewed !rom with-
out the fenced enclosure.
The separators shall be installed for operation in a horizonal or verticle
position, height not to exceed ten feet above tank level. 1
Any oil or gas produced may be transported outside of the city limits by
under ground pipe lines.
Sec. 19A-18 FENCES; REQUIRED; LOCKING GATESt WAIVER BY INSPEC
TOR.
Any person who completes any well as a producer shall have the obliga-
tion to enclose such wella together with its surface facilities, by a substan-
tial wire fence sufficiently high and properly built so as to ordinarily keep
persons and animals out of the enclosure., with all gates thereto to be kept
locked when the permittee or his employees are not within the enclosure pro
vided, however, in noncongested areas the City Manager, in his discretion•
may waive the requirement of any fence or may designate the type of fence to b
be erected.
Sec. 19A-19 NUISANCES; TO BE ELIMINATED; BEST PRACTICES.
All oil operations~ drilling and production operations shall be conducted I
in· such a manner as to eliminate., as far as practicable, dust, noise, vibra-
tion or noxious odors) arid shall be in accordance with the best accepted prac
tice s incident to exploration for:r, drilling for and production of oil, gas and
other hydrocarbon substances. Proven technological improvements in explo
ration., drilling and production methods shall be adopted as they become, frotilt
time to time, available, if capable of reducing factors of nuisance and annoyt
Sec. 19A-20 FIRE PREVENTION--E&CAPE OF GAS; BURNING; FLARlNGH
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS. II
(a) No permittee engaged in the drilling or operation of an oil and/ or g s
well within the corporate limits of the city shall permit gas to e.scape into th
air7. or flare or burn gas from a torch or any similar means Within the corpo1
ate limits of the city; provide~ gas may be burned for a limited t ime when
necessary to complete an oil and/or gas well upon the original completion o
upon the recompletion of work over jobs upon oil and/ or gas wells~ so long a
the same does not constitute a ire hazard to the property of others within the
vicinity of such oil and/ or gas well.
(b) Adequate fire fighting apparatus and supplies~ .approved by the fire
department of the city shall be maintained on the drilling site at all times
during drilling and production operations. All machinery, equipment and
installations on all drilling sites within the city limits shall conform with
such requirements as may from time to time be issued by the fire depart-
ment of the city.
Sec. 19A-21 ABANDONMENT; PLUGGING; PRECAUTIONARY MEASU~
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Whenever any well is abandoned it shall be the obligation of the permitte,~
and the operator of the well to set a three hundred eighty five foot cement
plug in the bottom of the surface casing with the bottom of the plug
one hnndred feet below the surface casing section, and the top of the plug onJ
hundred feet above the surface casing s e ction; and to s e t a fifty foot cement
plug in the top of the surface casing. .u ~ .. ____ . .: ~ u-· .::u ~ x..:,._.... ..... "' ......
No surface or conductor string of casing may be pulled or removed
from a well. During initial abandonment operations it will be the obligation
of the permittee and the operator of the well to flood the well with mudladen
fluid weighing not less than ten pounds per gallon~ and the well will be kept
filled to the top with such mud-laden fluid at all times. Mud-laden fluid of
the above specifications will be left in the well bore below and between ceme ~
plugs. Any additional provisions or precautionary measures prescribed by j
the State of Texas or the Railroad Commission of the State of Texas in con ...
nection with the abandorunent and plugging of a well shall be complied with
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Sec. 19A-2.2. SALT WATER; DISPOSAL REQUIRED•
Permittee shall make adequate provisions for the disposal of all salt
water or other impurities which he may bring to the surface~ such disposal
to be made in such manner as to not contaminate the water supply> present
or prospective, or to injure surface vegetation.
Sec. 19A-2.3 FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS APPLY.
Any violation of laws of the State of Texas or any rules, regulations
or requirements of any State or Federal regulatory body having jurisdiction
in reference to drilling, completing, equipping1 operating, producing1 main
taining, or abandoning an oil or gas well or related appurtenances., equip-
ment or facilities, or in reference to fire walls, fire protectio~ blow-out
protection~ safety protection, or convenience of per sons or property~ shall
also be a violation of this chapter and shall be punishable in accordance with
the provisions hereof.
Sec. 19A-2.4 PENALTIES; FINE; FORFEITURE; REVOCATION OF PERM! •
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any per son to violate or ne glee :1
to comply with azy ~provision hereof, irrespective of whether or not the veri r,
biage of each section hereof contains the specific language that such violatio
or neglect is unlawful and is an offense. Any person who shall violate any o
the provisions of this chapter, or al}y of the provisions of a drilling and
operating permit issued .pursuant hereto,. or any conditinn of the bond filed
by the permittee pursuant to this chapter., or who shall neglect to comply ~
with the terms aereof., shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, "'
on conviction thereof, be fined in any swn not exceeding two hundred dollars/ 4
and the violation of each separate provision of this chapter, and of such per-jjl:(
mit, and of such bond1 shall be considered a separate offense, and each day
violation of each separate provision thereof shall be considered a separate
offense. In addition to the foregoing penalties, it is further provided that
the city commission at any regular or special session or meeting thereof,
may~ provided ten d.ays1 notice has been given to the permittee that revo-
cation is to be considered at such meeting~ revoke or suspend any permit
issued under this chapter and under which drilling or producing operations
are be.ing conducte~ in the event the permittee thereof has violated any
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U ' .. "J?lfCi>vision of such permit, such bond. or this chapter. In the event the per-
• q mit is revokec4 the permittee may make application to the City Commission
for a reissuance of such permit, and the action of the City Commission ther -
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SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY: If any section., paragrap~ subdivision, claus :t
phrase, or provisions of this Ordinance shall~ for any reason,. be adjudged invalid
or held to be unconstitutional~ the invalidity or unconstitutionality of such particu-
lar section~ paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase or provision so declared shal
not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining provisions hereof, but
the same:~ and each of them~ shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 3. The provisions of this ordinance shall be cumulative of all
other ordinances of the City of Lubbock on the same or similar supject matter.
SECTION 4. The City Secretary shall cause the publication of the caption
and penalty clause of this ordinance (said penalty clause being set forth as Sec.
19A-24 in Section 1 of1hls ordinance) once a week for two consecutive weeks in
a newspaper regularly published in the City of Lubbock as an alternative method
of publication as provided by law.
SECTION 5. This ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure for th
reasons eet forth in the preamble hereof and the rule requiring two readings of an
ordinance before final passage is suspended, and this ordinance shall become ef-
fective immediately after its passage.
AND IT SO ,ORDERED
On motion of Commissioner Casey ,seconded by Commissioner
Th.ompson , the above and foregoi~dinance was unanimously
passed by the City Commission this ~,:'(,day of ~ , 1959, by
the following vote:
Commissioners Voting 11AYE11:
Commissioners Voting 11NAY":
ATTEST:
~~~ City Secretary-Trea \lrer
Casey, Thompson, MAner, Y4XeY
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