§ 62-27. Purpose and intent.  


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  • The city council finds that there has been and there is a likelihood of additional drilling and production operations for oil and gas within the corporate limits requiring that operations for the drilling and production of oil and gas within such area be regulated because of the fire hazards created by such operations, as well as the menace of falling derricks, unsanitary conditions, contaminated water supply and all similar and like threats to the lives, property, health, safety and welfare of the public in general, for which the police power of the state delegated to this city is to be and is invoked in aid of the enforcement of this article.

(Ord. No. 671, § 1, 2-14-63; Code 1967, § 20-1)