§ 62-28. Certain exceptions for wells drilled prior to January 1, 1950, or outside regulated area.

(a)

Anything contained in this article to the contrary notwithstanding, none of the sections of this article, except section 62-137, shall ever be construed as applying to the operation of any producing oil or gas well located within the corporate limits that was drilled and completed prior to January 1, 1950, or to the equipment and its operation, producing or otherwise, installed in connection with such well on the leased premises.

(b)

Without limitations on subsection (a) of this section, nothing contained in this article shall be interpreted to require a permit for any producing oil or gas well located within the corporate limits that was drilled and completed prior to January 1, 1950, or for the continued operation, reworking, sidetracking, plugging back or abandonment or deepening through the deepest productive reservoir to which any such well was previously drilled.

(c)

If the surface location of the well is within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city, but any portion of the well bore is located within the corporate limits, all of the sections of this article shall apply to all surface location operations of such well.

(Ord. No. 671, § 17, 2-14-63; Code 1967, § 20-3; Ord. No. 11,434, § 2, 9-9-10)

Editor's note

Section 2 of Ord. No. 11,434, adopted Sept. 9, 2010, changed the title of § 62-28 from "Certain exceptions for wells drilled prior to January 1, 1950" to "Certain exceptions for wells drilled prior to January 1, 1950, or outside regulated area."